Was Hitler a Christian?

Adolf Hitler was a Christian by name alone. Did it go any deeper than the title? Did the Nazi's really believe in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ? Did they wish they were not raised Christian?

Quote Sources:
-(Adolf Hitler, in his June 26, 1944 speech to industrialists, quoted by Albert Speer, p. 555, Inside the Third Reich.)
- Adolf Hitler, in a speech on 12 April 1922 (Norman H. Baynes, ed. The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939, Vol. 1 of 2, pp. 19-20, Oxford University Press, 1942)
-(The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William L. Shirer, p. 240 in some editions, p. 332 in others. Chapter headed "Triumph and Consolidation", subsection "The Persecution of the Christian Churches")
-(Martin Bormann, Reich Leader, 1942, 'National Socialist and Christian Concepts are Incompatible', From Kirchliches Jahrbuch fur die evangelische Kirche in Deutschland, 1933-1944, pp. 470-472, quoted pp. 245-247, George L. Mosse, Nazi Culture: A Documentary History).
-(Adolf Hitler, in his June 26, 1944 speech to industrialists, quoted by Albert Speer, p. 555, Inside the Third Reich.)
-(Adolf Hitler, quoted by Albert Speer, p. 96, Inside the Third Reich.)
-Der Blitz, January 12, 1936, quoted p. 6, The War Against God, edited by Carl Carmer).
-(Alfred Rosenberg, Myth of the Twentieth Century, 1932, quoted p. 6, The War Against God, edited by Carl Carmer).
-Hans Hauptmann, Bolshevism in the Bible (Nazi textbook), 1937, quoted p. 28, The War Against God, edited by Carl Carmer).
- E. K. Heidemann, 'What the Christian Does not Know about Christianity,' September, 1935, quoted p. 105, The War Against God, edited by Carl Carmer).

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[adlerbr12]

Was Hitler a Christian? , YES HE WAS.

[Lunabeam1]

Yes Adolf Hitler was Christian. Well Catholic anyway. Although he reminds me of Fred Phelps. Another wakko nut job.

[afeeder]

@Ozzyman200

continued 2:

If we look at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum website, we see that the actual victims besides Jews were "because of their perceived "racial inferiority": Roma (Gypsies), the disabled, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals. "

(Poles are the most Catholic ethnicity in the world)

[afeeder]

@Ozzyman200

continued:

"He rounded up, tortured and killed Jews and atheists"

not atheists, it is despicable that you are trying to coopt this tragedy. Hitler only dissolved the Godless (Gottlos), groups which in German implies communist freethought atheism, (or just sinner/wicked). He was fine with anti-religious atheists who weren't communist (i.e., Atheisten), in fact he choose a very outspoken one for his personal secretary and Head of the Nazi Chancellery, Martin Bormann.

[afeeder]

@Ozzyman200

"He enjoyaed..."

No he didn't, they had a row, resulting in Erich Klausener, leader of Catholic Action being murdered by the Nazis in the Night of the Long Knives, and 100s of priests being put on immortality trials. The Nazis did poorly in Catholic areas, so they required the Catholic's Center Party to be dissolved in order to sign the concordat (to stop persecution). And in the concordat the Nazis required Catholic clergy to get out of politics (article 32)

[Ozzyman200]

@afeeder

What deeds? You don't seem to know your history. He enjoyaed a lot of support from the church in his rise to power. He rounded up, tortured and killed Jews and atheists- something Christians have been doing for many centuries. He attended church. He drew on the bible all through his books. He justified his actions based on the bible. He had science books burnt. Historically these are all very Christian.

[afeeder]

@Ozzyman200

What deeds? He didn't go to Sunday mass (Rissmann). He put race ahead of religion, sending over 1/3 of all Catholic bishops in Poland to concentration camps and killing thousands of priests in his attempt to get rid of the Polish elite; not to mention killing millions of Catholic Poles to provide "livingspace" for Aryans. He talked of getting rid of atheists, then instead had an atheist his personal secretary, and another in charge of indocrinating the youth in the HJ

[afeeder]

@Lunabeam1

Only Catholic by virtue of infant baptism and the fact that he didn't bother leaving the church (as 75% of todays Swedes haven't either). He did not attend mass after he left home according to historian M. Rißmann, something also collaborated by his OSS file. According to canon law, the "bare minimum" for a practicing Catholic is weekly church attendence. Also, broke more serious canon laws, such as his approval of starting a Protestant Reich church, and killing priests

[sweet161402]

Actions speak louder than words.