In 1934, the German Bishop Clemens von Galen complained to an SS officer about having to perform church ceremonies with an altar to Wotan. How much did the Nazis actually try to revive Germanic paganism during Hitler's rule?

by ChewiestBroom

I stumbled upon the incident on Wikipedia here and it struck as me odd. I'd just assumed the Nazis stuck with general Christian imagery, but apparently not, and I guess paganism would work rather well with their volkisch ideology.

frederickvon

As a follow-up, did Himmler and the SS pursue a different idea of paganism and the occult than the mainstream Nazi party or Hitler?