The London Daily Mail has published several previously-lost photographs of a Nazi Christmas celebration in 1941 (or, perhaps, a few years earlier). But their analysis requires some correction:
But the Nazi Christmas was far from traditional.
Hitler believed religion had no place in his 1,000-year Reich, so he replaced the Christian figure of Saint Nicholas with the Norse god Odin and urged Germans to celebrate the season as a holiday of the ‘winter solstice,’ rather than Christmas.
Out of sight at the top of the tree behind Hitler was a swastika instead of an angel, and many of the baubles carried runic symbols and iron cross motifs.
Wait a minute: Hitler substituted a god for Santa Claus because religion had no place in his Reich? How's that again?
But confusing Christianity with religion per se is far from the worst mistake I've read on the subject: A reviewer of Christopher Hitchens's God is Not Great went so far as to mistake Hitler's dislike for Catholicism with atheism. In truth: Nazism was rife with occult and pagan (particularly Norse, but Hitler borrowed, um, liberally) symbolism and rituals. Nazi Germany was a cult.
Merry Christmas, bitches. And Happy Kwanzaa. (cough)