Ben Wilson

Actually.

Uh, he was never like a super committed pagan.

That was other people in the national socialist party.

So anyway, the point is for purely strategic reasons, he's really trying to tamp down on anti-clerical elements within the party.

There were especially a lot of anti-Catholic elements within the party.

And he comes, he is Catholic.

He has a Catholic background.

He comes from Austria.

He comes from this southern part of Germany in northern Austria that's highly Catholic, right?

So this is one of the things that he is worrying about is strategically, hey, we might be sort of opposed to Christianity, but you guys can wait on this.

This is something that we do after we win.

Okay, so this is where we are with Hitler.

He's fully in charge of the movement and in charge of the party, which has been reconstituted now.

And, you know, when I talked about that great reunification, because the party had been abolished after the putsch, but now it has been restored and they issue new membership cards.

That's one of the things that helps reunify everyone.

It's like, hey, you guys formed all these splinter parties and some of you were earlier than others the first time we had the National Socialist Party.

None of that matters, okay?

Blank slate, we're issuing new membership cards for the National Socialist German Workers Party.

So the party is not growing very quickly, but it has its leader back.

It's purposeful.