Guida Diehl (29 July 1868 – 11 September 1961) was a German teacher and Nazi party official who was the founder of Neulandbund, a Nazi organisation for women.
In 1912, Diehl worked with Johannes Burckhardt. She was a member of the German Christians and the first speaker of the National Socialist Women's League.
In her 1933 book, The German Woman and National Socialism, Diehl wrote: Never did Hitler promise to the masses in his rousing speeches any material advantage whatever. On the contrary he pleaded with them to turn aside from every form of advantageseeking and serve the great thought: Honor, Freedom, Fatherland! In his success is shown the power of great divine truths ... For us women it was almost unendurable to see the weakness of manhood in the last decades. Therefore the outbreak of the War was, despite all the hardships, a great experience for us: the upheaval of 1914 was a powerful breaking through of heroic manhood. All the more fearful to us was the breakdown. Then we called to German men: 'We implore you, German Men, among whom we have seen and admired so much heroic courage ... We long to see Men and Heroes who scorn fate ... Call us to every service, even to weapons!
Publications Jesus Christ, our Lord (Jesus Christus unser Herr), 1927 With the Fire and Force of the First Christendom (In Feuer und Kraft der 1. Christenheit), 1928 I know in whom I believe (Ich weiß an wen ich glaube), 1930 About renewed Christianity (Vom erneuerten Christsein), 1931 Salvation from chaotic madness (Erlösung vom Wirrwahn), 1931 German Christmas in Hardship and Struggle (Deutsche Weihnacht in Not und Kampf), 1932 The German Woman and National Socialism (Die Deutsche Frau und der National Sozialismus), 1933 Christ, the Lord of the New Era (Christ, der Herr der neuen Zeit), 1935 With the Fire and Force of Christ (In Feuer und Kraft Christi) 1936 Christ, Creator of Renewal (Christus Neuschöpfer), 1939 Wake up, wake up, you German country (Wach auf, wach auf, du deutsches Land), 1940 Christians awake! (Christen erwacht!), 1940 God, the primordial Love (Gott die Urliebe), 1941 To be a Christian means to be a Fighter. The Leadership of my Life (Christ sein heißt Kämpfer sein. Die Führung meines Lebens), 1959
Literature Kürschners Deutscher Literatur-Kalender, 1943, p. 186.
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