Background: The Nazis developed an elaborate system of rituals and ceremonies. Their most powerful competitor in this regard was the Church, which the Nazi Party fought hard to displace. One way to do that was to take over Church festivals, giving them new content. This is an example of a speech to be given by party leaders at Easter ceremonies in 1944. The speech was part of a suggested outline of ceremonies to be followed by party groups around Germany. As the introduction puts it: “We Germans celebrate Easter as a festival of spring, which has been passed down to us for millennia from the mists of German time.†There is no mention of Christianity.
http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/easter.htm
