The Myth of the Twentieth Century
In January 1934, Hitler appointed Alfred Rosenberg the Reich's cultural and educational leader. A neo-pagan, the notoriously anti-Catholic Rosenberg was editor of the "Völkischer Beobachter". In 1924, Hitler chose him to oversee the Nazi movement while he was in prison (possibly because he was unsuitable for the task, and unlikely to become a rival). In "The Myth of the Twentieth Century" (1930), Rosenberg described the Catholic Church as a primary enemy of Nazism. He proposed replacing traditional Christianity with the neo-pagan "myth of the blood":