Where do people get the idea that Hitler was a Christian?

Question

Hitler wasn't a Christian, he was into the occult and used an occult version of Jesus as part of his Aryan religion.

What I want to know is where is this false idea coming from that he was a Christian?

I'm not being defensive. It's just getting really annoying to have to debunk this myth 50 million times a day.

Answer 1

There is a lot of gibberish about Hitler's religious preferences - not helped by the fact that the man rarely told the truth about anything personal.

He was born and raised a Catholic although there is no evidence he ever practised as an adult.

His public speeches were full of religious-sounding words and phrases, he referred to "Providence" a lot and "the work of the Lord" without ever going into details about what he meant. In so far as he meant anything, he thought that life on earth was guided by immutable laws of history - possibly with some vague deity in the background.

In private conversations, especially during the war, it becomes evident that he believed that Christianity was a Jewish plot to undermine the Aryan race by inculcating alien emotions like compassion and brotherly love. He was going to "deal" with the churches after the war was won.

However, he was not personally into the occult in any meaningful way. He despised Himmler's pseudo-pagan claptrap but let him get on with it, since it did no harm and kept Himmler happy.

There are a lot of urban legends around about Hitler. Try reading some proper history.

Answer 2

I think at that time of history, if you weren't a Jew you were considered a Christian in the West. It didn't have to be real, just
nominal. And as many of the Germans did claim to be Christians, and as many Christians felt that it was all right to look down on Jews because they were (and I quote, but do not agree with this attitude at all "Christ killers"), I think that Hitler became associated in the Jewish mind as a Christian--for Germany was nominally a Christian nation.

Actually, Hitler put any powerful Christians who he thought would stand against him in prison, as he did many other peoples who he thought might be problematical to his goals.

His Aryan religion had a lot to do with Norse Gods and occultic nonsense and nothing to do with the Christ of the Bible.

And yes, he was into the occult, and often in a state that had all the appearance of the demonically possessed.

But I think the idea that he was a Christian came from Germany's being a 'Christian' nation.

Answer 3

Some of Hitler's earlier writings are based loosely on a christian esque theology that was popular among the elite in Vienna and Austria in the early to mid 1910s. It was a more racially biased christian doctrine and not supported by the Bible.

His early education in politics was also influenced by this same radical religiosity that led to an extreme anti-Semitism. As well as a pathological hatred of Marxists, liberalism and the cosmopolitan Habsburg monarchy.

I have read that Hitler was baptized in the Catholic Church, but that really means nothing. There are Catholics today that are baptized, but do not follow the teachings of Christ and there fore are not Christians. There are "christians" today that do not follow the teachings of Christ and are therefore not Christians. But that however, is between them and God.

Whether Hitler was a Christian or not is of little consequence and should not affect you in any way. People want to claim that Hitler was a Christian because then they can say, "Look what Hitler did in the name of Christianity". It's really quite ludicrous. History knows what kind of a man Hitler was and God knows his heart. It's really that simple.

Answer 4

You read about him in history books. I was living then.
Their economy was bad and this man rose to power. Taking over and we saw numerous photo's of him with the pope.
The American government was not against Hitler at first.
We didn't have the mass communication you have today. We believed our government and what we were told. We had radio's and I remember my parents siting by the radio listening to speaches about how he had done good things. He was turning the country around. Now the poor starving people were eating again and he was amasseing a great army. Then he went into poland and or France. Killing people for no reason.
We had a speach translated where he said they started it.
It was months before the truth came out and our parents went to fight a war. Only much later did we learn about the millions of people he killed. 40 million people died in ww2
He said, he was a christian and god was with him and the fatherland. Some at first were afraid to fight him. They were told he was sanctioned by the church. Now little miss, you read it different. Hign site is always unaccurate.
What will they tell the young children 70 years from now about the Iraq war? It was not a religious war?

Answer 5

It's all about Propaganda. Hitler had posters of himself standing beneath a "Holy Light", holding a cross, a distant angel flying, surrounded by a large amount of people.

It was the bandwagon approach with the people, and it meant something like "Hitler's a Christian. If you are one too, then you'll suppoter Hitler." That is a fallacy.

Answer 6

I started to read a book "secret conversations with hitler" by andrew breiting; when he was chancellor there was a picture of christ in the supreme court at the reichstag. It may, or, may not have been at the chancellor's wish but it is indicative. I didn't get time to finish the book but breiting was a journalist who was invited to do some private conversations with herr hitler and the book probably elaborates.

Answer 7

Well, he obviously believed Jesus Christ existed. He was searching for religious artifacts like the Roman spear that stabbed Jesus's side. I'm not sure if it was because he believed in the power of Christ or if it was because he knew of the power he would have over people if he acquired it. I don't know.

Answer 8

Answer:

First: You do not personally have to debunk this myth ever again.

Second: He certainly was not a Jew.

Third: He positively was not a Muslim.

Fourth: There is no proof whatsoever that he was a Buddhist.

Fifth: There really is no good reason to drag his name
up for public consideration ever again. He is dead. And,
odds are pretty good he will not have a Resurrection within your lifetime or mine.

Answer 9

Probably because people don't know much about the new religion he was trying to introduce/impose/whatever. It's not really taught in school as far as I know, you'd have to study history further or watch the right documentary to know about it. They assume that as he obviously wasn't Jewish or Muslim he must have been Christian. I imagine he was raised as a Christian, ie going to Church and all.

Answer 10

His Christening, Baptism and regular church attendance, plus, the Roman Catholic churchs assistance in smuggling Nazis out of Europe on Argentinian passports issued by the Perons, all clearly show a link between Hitler and his movement and the Roman Catholic Faith.