I didn't know that, actually. It's funny the things we can still learn. All the Reich was, was the reignited fire of the Teutonic Order. There's a few scattered images where you can see parades of Wehrmacht troops holding the old banners of the Teutons. The SS were practically *the* knights. All that knight imagery, warrior-scholar outlook, and so on wasn't for nothing. Then of course Hitler himself remained a devout Catholic though he disagreed with the Catholic Church itself and wished to reform it. The Reich lost, yes, but look at what it took to make them lose. They *still* had a surprisingly effective army not even a year before they fell. Battle of the Bulge? It could've really fucked the Allies if the Germans had won. But thinking of their loss, Hitler did mention how he felt he was doing preparatory work and Providence was guiding him. Perhaps all of it, even the loss, *was* the preparatory work. It was a necessary loss. It was done so that we could see what would happen if we lost, and also if we won. It gave us an ideology that extends beyond military defeat. I say it's time we use it.