GERMANY: Pagans and Gags

Nazi pagans rejoiced last week as Professor Wilhelm Hauer, founder of the 100% Germanic Faith Movement, performed its first wedding in Berlin without benefit of other clergy.

"I shall act as the Weihewart or Consecrator of this wedding," declared Professor Hauer, and proceeded to do so. While the bride and groom bent their heads and cameras clicked, the Weihewart read sonorously from a ritual book of Pagan devising: "Oh Mother Earth, from whom all love proceeds! And oh Father Heaven, who blesses with His light and weather!...

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