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Hitler's invasion of the predominantly Catholic Poland in 1939 ignited the Second World War. Kerhsaw wrote that, in Hitler's scheme for the Germanization of the East, "There would, he made clear, be no place in this utopia for the Christian Churches". [26] Hitler appointed Hanns Kerrl as Minister for Church Affairs in 1935. Kerrl rejected ...
[45] Hitler's remarks to confidants, as described by Goebbels, in the memoirs of Albert Speer, and transcripts of Hitler's private conversations recorded by Martin Bormann in Hitler's Table Talk, are further evidence of his irreligious and anti-Christian beliefs; [28] these sources record a number of private remarks in which Hitler ridicules ...
Many Nazi leaders, including Adolf Hitler, [52] subscribed either to a mixture of pseudoscientific theories, such as Social Darwinism, [53] mysticism, and occultism, which was especially strong in the SS. [54] [55] Central to both groupings was the belief in Germanic (white Nordic) racial superiority.
In Hitler's eyes, Christianity was a religion fit only for slaves; he detested its ethics in particular. Its teaching, he declared, was a rebellion against the natural law of selection by struggle and the survival of the fittest. Though he was born as a Catholic, Hitler came to reject the Judeo-Christian conception of God and religion. [15]
Hitler pressured parents to remove children from religious classes for ideological instruction; in elite Nazi schools, Christian prayers were replaced with Teutonic rituals and sun worship. [78] Church kindergartens were closed, and Catholic welfare programs were restricted because they assisted the "racially unfit".
Hitler approved of the book's work in general [22] and emphasised the desirability of positive Christianity, yet distanced himself from much of Rosenberg's more radical ideas sidelined to the lunatic fringe within his movement, wishing to retain the support of the conservative Christian electorate and social elite. Hitler's official brand of ...
A controversial Christian televangelist who once suggested Adolf Hitler was sent by God addressed one of the largest gatherings of Jewish Americans in decades.. Jewish progressive groups and peace ...
While the Nazi Führer Adolf Hitler's public relationship to religion in Nazi Germany may be defined as one of opportunism, his personal position on Catholicism and Christianity was one of hostility. Hitler's chosen "deputy", Martin Bormann, an atheist, recorded in Hitler's Table Talk that Nazism was secular, scientific, and anti-religious in ...