when applied to international politics by those who believed themselves to be in the mainstream of the german intellectual world the problem of reconciling the unending struggle for a greater germany with the christian love of ones neighbour could only be solved by rejecting some if not all principles of christianity this solution was being formulated at the turn of the century a train of thought which minimized the principles of christianity in order to free germany from the moral inhibitors hindering the application of deutschland uber alles .