sentences:  This was a belief-system of arcane rituals and potent symbols, with the ancient swastika appropriated for the Nazi cause.By the time of the Third Reich, Hitler and the Nazis had evolved an entirely new faith, complete with holy book, venerated relics, and a priestly elite in the form of Himmler's SS.It was a religion based on obedience, power, and the cult of the leader, with Hitler himself conceived in Messianic terms.