This urban legend that Hitler was an atheist is a flat out lie. He also often gets pegged as an 'Occultist' but this isn't true either. Heinrich Himmler (leader of the SS) was an occultist and brought some of that into their ceremonies.
However, Hitler was a Christian. As a young boy he was an altar boy in a Catholic church. “I had excellent opportunity to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the brilliant church festivals. As was only natural, the abbot seemed to me, as the village priest had once seemed to my father, the highest and most desirable ideal.” -Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
He was also partially inspired in his anti-Jewish beliefs by christianity:
"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God’s truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter."
2006-06-14
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