on Tschammer und Osten said that all Roman Catholic and Protestant youth organizations are, like all Jewish organizations, to be expressly forbidden to pursue any sport. As far as the Nazis are concerned, people are going to have to make a choice between religion and sport. The point being that all sports training is to be done under Nazi auspices. He actually said that the Nazis are conducting a cultural war against the church.”
“He said that?”
“Any Catholic or Protestant athletes who don’t join Nazi sports clubs will lose their chance of representing Germany.”
I shrugged. “So let them. Who cares about a few idiots running around a track anyway?”
“You’re missing the point, Gunther. They’ve purged the police. Now they’re purging sports. If they succeed, there will be no aspect of German life in which they won’t be able to exert their authority. In all aspects of German society, Nazis will be preferred. If you want to get on in life, you will have to become a Nazi.”
- Philip Kerr, If the Dead Rise Not
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