No wonder he wanted to go East... he hated the atheism in Russia, that is all.
>>137229673
newfag he was only using christianity to gain power he dumped it later.
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
German Nazi dictator who is responsible for the Holocaust (a.k.a. The Shoah), a genocide that killed 11 million people, notably killing 6 million Jews due to the Nazis' particularly anti-semitic policies. While he would sometimes claim to be a Christian to the religious public, Hitler also declared, "Our epoch will certainly see the end of the disease of Christianity," and claimed that "The Christian religion is nothing but a Jewish sect," and that, "One is either a Christian or a German. You cannot be both." Joseph Goebbels affirmed that Hitler was "completely anti-Christian" and said the best way for them to deter the churches from fighting the Nazi government was to "claim" to be Christian while gradually "strangle any attempt" of religion from interfering with the state. Hitler said that he used the term "God" to refer to "the dominion of natural laws throughout the universe" (and said that he was opposed to "atheism" if it meant denying that). However, he was against any religious conception of God, saying that priests have exploited people's feeling, and that "In the long run, National Socialism [a.k.a. Nazism] and religion will no longer be able to exist together." For such reasons, there have obviously been historians who have classified Hitler as an atheist.
>>137229673
references
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/NonJewishVictims.html ↩
Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century (Yale Nota Bene, 2001), 355-256. ↩
Armin Robinson, ed., The Ten Commandments: Ten Short Novels of Hitler’s War Against the Moral Code, with a preface by Herman Rauscing, (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1943), ixhn. ↩
Hermann Rauschning, Hitler Speaks: A Series Of Political Conversations With Adolf Hitler On His Real Aims (London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1939), 57. ↩
Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, 1939-1941 (New York: G.P Putnam's Sons, 1983), 76-77. ↩
Adolf Hitler, Hitler's Table Talk, 1941-1944: His Private Conversations, trans. Norman Cameron and R. H. Stevens (New York: Enigma Books, 2000), 6. As explained on this page, Hitler avoided promoting the term "atheism" and the denial of the term "God" as such things currently had explicit connotation with the Bolsheviks, with whom the Nazis were at war. ↩
Geoffrey Blainey, A Short History of Christianity (Melbourne: Viking, 2011), 495–496. ↩
>>137230050
He was a deist, not an atheist.