The Holocaust?

Question

Yes, this is one of many questions i have asked about the Holocaust but i am very interested in it.

Does anyone know if Christianity was the main relgion in Europe during the Holocaust??

thank you everyonee :)

Answer 1

Yes it was

Answer 2

Yes, Christianity was the main religion in Europe during the Holocaust.

During the Third Reich, Germany was officially a non-religious state, but most Germans, including those in the military, continued to practice their religions, with Catholicism and various Protestant churches (notably the Lutheran Church) being the most common.

Some countries, like France, Poland, and Italy, were almost entirely Catholic, while other countries, like England and the Scandinivian countries, were mainly Protestant.

The Catholic Church got a lot of criticism because the Vatican didn't do much to address what was going on in Europe at the time, and many people still blame them for it. However, you need to keep in mind that the Vatican, being in Rome, was a tiny place surrounded by an Axis power. The truth is that individual Catholics, as well as Catholic churches, convents, and homes for children, did as much as they could to help Jewish people.

Catholic priests routinely endagered their own lives by forging baptismal and marriage certificates for Jewish people, even going back several generations, so that people could hide their identities. Catholic estalishments, like convents, and especially orphanages also routinely hid Jewish people. Many Jewish children survived the war by being placed into the care of Catholic orphanages and receiving new, Christian names. It was extremely dangerous for the orphanages to do that, and the people in charge were not blind to the danger, but they did it anyway.

Answer 3

The " main" religion yes. However note that the aim of the third reich was to eventually elimate christanity via a teutonic pagaism relying heavily upon Nordic beliefs mixed in with anti-semitism and also associated with it's foundations based in an Atantian therory. That theroy being that the "Arayn" race were directly desended from these Atlantians with their desendants being German and Northern Indians.
Stalin also oppressed the Russian Christian denomiantions as well as his country's own Orthodox Jews.

Answer 4

It certainly was! By a long way! Still is! We are only talking 6 decades ago... Many people still alive were there! I'm supprised you wouldn't know this. Nazis, however were not specificaly Christian and at times were quite anti Christian (the liked a kind of made up psuedo Arian pagan belief) even though most Germans of the time would have been Christians.

Answer 5

The Nazis pretty much did away with religion. Yes, the Catholic Church was still there, but in Germany, it was either a puppet or always in fear of the gestapo.

Answer 6

In Europe, absolutely.

Answer 7

yes christianity was the prominent religion. the denomination was Catholic. but by all means Christian. The fact that the Jews practiced Judaism was his largest reason for attacking them.

Answer 8

i believe so...the pope at the time didn't have a lot to say about it, though...
and hitler and his gang claimed to be christians
it is good that you ask these questions, people need to be reminded of history...so don't be discouraged by any rude jerks that may say mean things to you about it...
or those who deny that it happened...it happened, i grew up with some survivors of it, and it was every bit as terrible as it is reputed to have been, maybe worse...you might google a jewish christian minister named art katz...he served in the american army during ww2 and was part of a battalion of soldiers that liberated one of the death camps...i remember sitting in his kitchen in his farmhouse in minnesota and listening to him recount his experiences of that time...shook me to my soul.

Answer 9

yes, it was, but the Nazi army was an atheist-christian state, don't ask me how is that possible...

Answer 10

No I'm pretty sure it was Judaism Or Buddism.