(aspects of hitler’s views on ‘religion’ have been a matter of debate)
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(he is generally believed to have been skeptical of religion, but opportunistic and shrewdly aware of its influence on ‘politics’)
(raised by an ‘anti-clerical’ father and practicing catholic mother, ‘hitler’ was baptized and confirmed in the ‘roman catholic church’ as a boy)
Though he became hostile to its teachings in adulthood, did not participate in its rites, and planned a “reckoning” with the Church when politics allowed, he had not officially left it at the time of his suicide.
During his political career, Hitler said he supported Christianity in public speeches.
He sometimes made the claim in private statements, though confidants like Goebbels and Bormann noted the reverse, and there is a consensus among historians that he became hostile to religion, especially Christianity, at some point during adulthood.
In his semi-autobiographical Mein Kampf, Hitler used the words “God”, “the Creator”, “Providence” and “the Lord”.
He outlines a nihilistic vision, describing human history as a constant racial struggle for supremacy.
He criticises the churches for not recognising the “racial problem” and declares himself in favour of separation of church and state.
Officially, the Nazi party endorsed what it termed “Positive Christianity” which stripped the religion of its Jewish origins, set up Hitler as a messianic figure, and did not require the belief in the divinity of Christ.
In practice Hitler’s regime persecuted the churches, and worked to reduce the influence of Christianity on society.
Hitler was reluctant to make public attacks on the Church for political reasons, but generally permitted or encouraged his inner-circle of anti-church radicals such as Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels and Martin Bormann to perpetrate the Nazi persecutions of the churches.
His remarks to confidants, as described in the Goebbels Diaries, the memoirs of Albert Speer, and transcripts of Hitler’s private conversations recorded by Martin Bormann in Hitler’s Table Talk, indicate anti-Christian beliefs.
Goebbels wrote in 1939 that Hitler is “deeply religious, but completely anti-Christian”, and in 1941 he wrote that Hitler “hates Christianity”.
Alan Bullock considered that Hitler’s central objection to Christianity, was that its teaching was “a rebellion against the natural law of selection by struggle and the survival of the fittest”.
Bullock considered Hitler to be a rationalist and a materialist who did not believe in God, but who frequently employed the language of “divine providence” in defence of his own myth.
Richard Steigmann-Gall has read Hitler’s language to mean that he may have continued to believe in an active deity, and to hold Jesus in high esteem as an “Aryan fighter” who struggled against Jewry.
According to Speer, Hitler had contempt for the neo-pagan views of Alfred Rosenberg and Himmler.
Hitler’s appointment of the neo-pagan Rosenberg as official Nazi ideologist angered Christians.
The regime launched an effort toward coordination of German Protestants under a unified Protestant Reich Church (but this was resisted by the Confessing Church) and moved early to eliminate political Catholicism.
Hitler agreed to the Reich concordat with Rome, but then routinely ignored it, and permitted persecutions of the Catholic Church.
Smaller religious minorities faced harsher repression, with the Jews of Germany expelled for extermination on the grounds of Nazi racial ideology.
Jehovah’s Witnesses were ruthlessly persecuted for refusing both military service and allegiance to Hitler’s movement.
Hitler spoke out against atheism, and the regime banned the majority of atheistic and freethinking groups in Germany in 1933.
(many historians believe that ‘hitler’ eventually hoped to eliminate the Christian churches in Germany, although he was prepared to delay conflicts for political reasons)
(he also expressed admiration for muslim jihadists for their ‘warrior spirit’)
(how did the japs become ‘kamikazes’?)
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