Can somebody please explain to me these quotes in Albert Speer's memoir regarding Hitler's admiration of Islam:
"You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?"
I've herd lefties mention different books addressing this topic, using it as an argument against National Socialism and Hitler.
>>131601840
>lefties
>supporting Christianity even tacitly
My sides
How am I supposed to defend National Socialism when Hitler wished to be Muslim?
>>131601840
The Nazi government had an often poor relationship with German Christians who tended to be opposed to policies such as the Nuremberg Laws and Aktion T4 on moral grounds. Germany Christians along with Communists were probably the singlemost reliable source of resistance to the Third Reich (Staffenberg and Elser were both motivated by the belief Hitler would pervert and destroy "Christian" Germany).
The German government's relationship with Muslims such as the Bosnian Muslims and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem on the other hand was much more friendly. They tended to be on the same page about hating Jews and the British. Although the Nazis at the same time also didn't hesitate to slaughter captured Russian Muslim soldiers without mercy on the basis that they were circumcised and therefore "might" be Jewish.
>>131602586
Thanks, I guess the context of the situation makes it more reasonable. I need to read more about it.
>>131601840
Islam and National Socialism are very similar. Warrior ideologies that glorify martyrdom for your nation and a totalitarian regime.
Hitler was not a racist, he supported non-whites such as Arabs, Japanese, Croats, Finns, in their struggles against Jewry.
>>131603914
>racist
Except he advocated subjugating/annihilating the Slavic and Jewish races on the basis of their racial inferiority.
He just wasn't the "aim and fire at anything that isn't fucking white" kind of racist like many Neo-Nazis are.
>>131603914
True. Now I wonder if he Hitler would have regressed on it had he read the Quran