Over 95% of Germany was Christian when the Nazis came to power. Why did so many Christians follow Hitler?

Question

51% LUTHERAN, 46% ROMAN CATHOLIC ACCORDING TO MY ENCYCLOPEDIA.

Answer 1

They were desperate for relief and Hitler turned a poor war beaten country into a super power.

The only thing he did wrong was killing millions of jews, pagans atheist, communist and homosexuals.

Wait isn't that what most christians want??

Answer 2

In my wanderings through the Web, I have sometimes come across statements from Christians saying that Adolf Hitler was an atheist, and more often, statements from atheists saying that Hitler was a devout Christian. He seems to be a guy that nobody wants on their team, which I guess is fair enough, given the part that he played in humanity's bloodiest endeavour. However since some of the "Hitler was a Christian" comments have been occasionally directed at me, I thought it would be wise to investigate the matter for myself and see just what I could come up with.
My conclusion is that Hitler, although he was brought up and confirmed as a Catholic, had abandoned Christianity by the time he was in control of Germany. Importantly though, he was not an atheist either.

National Socialism and religion cannot exist together....
"The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity's illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew. The deliberate lie in the matter of religion was introduced into the world by Christianity....
"Let it not be said that Christianity brought man the life of the soul, for that evolution was in the natural order of things."

Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure

"The best thing is to let Christianity die a natural death.... When understanding of the universe has become widespread... Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity....
"Christianity has reached the peak of absurdity.... And that's why someday its structure will collapse....
"...the only way to get rid of Christianity is to allow it to die little by little....
"Christianity the liar....
"We'll see to it that the Churches cannot spread abroad teachings in conflict with the interests of the State."

Answer 3

Because Germany after World War One was a broken, desperate nation looking for someone, anyone, to pick them up and guide them to something greater. They followed Hitler because they believed he was the man that was going to restore Germany to glory.

What he really did was an abomination, but by the time people realized it, it was too late to stop him. That task fell to other nations.

Answer 4

I had no idea that German was so heavily populated with Christians during the Nazi regime.
If that is true....then it does provide an interesting point about how things have come to be the way they are in our society today.

(I hope that's not really true).

Answer 5

the crusades,
the burning times
Joshua forcibly taking the land that is not isreal.
kiling th firstborn sons of egypt.
extermination of the Pagans in most of europe...

world war 2 was just a natural thing for them to start.

Answer 6

For the same reason Americans supported killing almost all Indians (almost 60 million is the estimate).

Answer 7

Hitler was just one of many pre-Antichrists. He mesmerized the masses. A preview of things to come. Don't be fooled when the REAL Antichrist comes.

Answer 8

so called christians did, not Catholic Christians.

Answer 9

Christians are gullible.

Answer 10

because they were not christians but "christians"