Were religion were the Nazis?

Answer 1

Hitler was Catholic, if that's what you're asking.

Hitler’s involvement with the Church:

a) Hitler was baptized as Roman Catholic during infancy in Austria.

b) As Hitler approached boyhood he attended a monastery school. (On his way to school young Adolf daily observed a stone arch which was carved with the monastery’s coat of arms bearing a swastika.)

c) Hitler was a communicant and an altar boy in the Catholic Church.

d) As a young man he was confirmed as a “soldier of Christ.” His most ardent goal at the time was to become a priest. Hitler writes of his love for the church and clergy: “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)

e) Hitler was NEVER excommunicated nor condemned by his church. Matter of fact the Church felt he was JUST and “avenging for God” in attacking the Jews for they deemed the Semites the killers of Jesus.

f) Hitler, Franco and Mussolini were given VETO power over whom the pope could appoint as a bishop in Germany, Spain and Italy. In turn they surtaxed the Catholics and gave the money to the Vatican. Hitler wrote a speech in which he talks about this alliance, this is an excerpt: “The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgement of the National Socialist state by the Catholic Church. This treaty shows the whole world clearly and unequivocally that the assertion that National Socialism [Nazism] is hostile to religion is a lie.” Adolf Hitler, 22 July 1933, writing to the Nazi Party

g) Hitler worked CLOSELY with Pope Pius in converting Germanic society and supporting the church. The Church absorbed Nazi ideals and preached them as part of their sermons in turn Hitler placed Catholic teachings in public education. This photo depicts Hitler with Archbishop Cesare Orsenigo, the papal nuncio in Berlin. It was taken On April 20, 1939, when Orsenigo celebrated Hitler’s birthday. The celebrations were initiated by Pacelli (Pope Pius XII) and became a tradition.

Each April 20, Cardinal Bertram of Berlin was to send “warmest congratulations to the Fuhrer in the name of the bishops and the dioceses in Germany with “fervent prayers which the Catholics of Germany are sending to heaven on their altars.” (If you would like to know more about the secret dealings of Hitler and the Pope I recommend you get a book titled: Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII, by John Cornwell)

h) Due to Hitler’s involvement with the Church he began enacting doctrines of the Church as law. He outlawed all abortion, raged a death war on all homosexuals, and demanded corporal punishment in schools and home. Many times Hitler addressed the church and promised that Germany would implement its teachings: “The National Socialist State professes its allegiance to positive Christianity. It will be its honest endeavor to protect both the great Christian Confessions in their rights, to secure them from interference with their doctrines (Lehren), and in their duties to constitute a harmony with the views and the exigencies of the State of today.” –Adolf Hitler, on 26 June 1934, to Catholic bishops to assure them that he would take action against the new pagan propaganda “Providence has caused me to be Catholic, and I know therefore how to handle this Church.” -Adolf Hitler, reportedly to have said in Berlin in 1936 on the enmity of the Catholic Church to National Socialism



How Christianity was the catalyst of the Holocaust:

Hitler’s anti-Semitism grew out of his Christian education. Austria and Germany were majorly Christian during his time and they held the belief that Jews were an inferior status to Aryan Christians. The Christians blamed the Jews for the killing of Jesus. Jewish hatred did not actually spring from Hitler, it came from the preaching of Catholic priests and Protestant ministers throughout Germany for hundreds of years. The Protestant leader, Martin Luther, himself, held a livid hatred for Jews and their Jewish religion. In his book, “On the Jews and their Lies,” Luther set the standard for Jewish hatred in Protestant Germany up until World War 2. Hitler expressed a great admiration for Martin Luther constantly quoting his works and beliefs.

Now, you must remember before Hitler rose to Chancellor of Germany the country was in a deep economic depression due to the Versailles treaty. The Versailles treaty demanded that Germans made financial reparations for the previous war and Germany simply was not self sufficient enough in order to pay the debt. Hitler was the leader that raised Germany out of the depression and brought them back to a world recognized power. Due to his annulment of the financial woes of the Germanic people he became their redeemer and they anointed him as the leader of the German Reich Christian Church in 1933. This placed him in power of the German Christian Socialist movement which legislates their political and religious agendas. It united all denominations, mainly the Protestant/Catholic and Lutheran people to instill faith in a national Christianity.



How the Nazi Regime converted the people:

a) In the 1920s, Hitler’s German Workers’ Party (pre Nazi term) adopted a “Programme” with twenty-five points (the Nazi version of a constitution). In point twenty-four, their intent clearly demonstrates, from the very beginning, their stand in favor of a “positive” Christianity: “We demand liberty for all religious denominations in the State, so far as they are not a danger to it and do not militate against the morality and moral sense of the German race. The Party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, but does not bind itself in the matter of creed to any particular confession...”

b) The Nazi regime started a youth movement which preached its agenda to impressionable children. Hitler backed up the notion that all people need faith and religious education: “By helping to raise man above the level of bestial vegetation, faith contributes in reality to the securing and safeguarding of his existence. Take away from present-day mankind its education-based, religious- dogmatic principles-- or, practically speaking, ethical-moral principles-- by abolishing this religious education, but without replacing it by an equivalent, and the result will be a grave shock to the foundations of their existence.” – Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)

c) The Nazi regime began to control schools insisting that Christianity was taught.

d) The Nazi regime included anti-Semitic Christian writings in textbooks and they were not removed from Christian doctrines until 1961.

e) The Nazi regime having full blown power over the people began to forcibly convert all its military.

f) The Nazi regime forced the German soldiers to wear religious symbols such as the swastika and they placed religious sayings on military gear. An example here is this German army belt buckle (I believe my Opa had one) which reads “Gott Mit Uns”. For those of you who do not speak German it is translated as “God With Us”.

g) The German troops were often forced to get sprinkled with holy water and listen to a sermon by a Catholic priest before going out on a maneuver.

h) The Nazis created a secret service called the “SS Reich” that would act as spies on the dealings of other citizens. If anyone was suspected of heresy (Going not only against the Socialist party but CHURCH DOCTRINE) they would be prosecuted.

Answer 2

You mean what religion?

If so Technically none, Hitler did not want the party associated with any religion because it was a Political party, yet he wanted all the pomp and circumstance of the Roman Empire and the mysticism of the older Aryan religions "pagan religions" as some are calling them.

But the party was comprised mostly of Catholics with a few "conservative Christians" as one person put it.

Remember towards the end of WWII it was the Catholic Church with the blessing of Pope at that time, that aided many high profile war criminals in escaping war torn Germany and Arrest.

Oh to add a personal note, to many Protestant's there is a very fine line between Catholics and Pagans. You guys know who you are.

Answer 3

They claimed Christianity and yes, Hitler was supposedly Catholic. They actually took from a few different religions. They didn't follow one to a T or anything. The Nazi Swastika was actually taken from the Pagans and was the symbol for luck in that religion. If the Nazi were actually religious and believed in God, they wouldn't have committed murder. They used Christianity as a front to appear like they were doing God's work. Obviously, it was an excuse to just be murderers. Also, if they were Christians, they wouldn't have "borrowed" from other religions, relied deeply on astrology or adopted a Pagan symbol as their symbol. Like alot of people, they were deluded and used religion as a veil for evil. God or morals was the last thing on their mind.

Answer 4

do you
mean
"what religion were the nazis ?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazis
Hitler extended his rationalizations into a religious doctrine, underpinned by his criticism of traditional Catholicism. In particular, and closely related to Positive Christianity, Hitler objected to Catholicism's ungrounded and international character - that is, it did not pertain to an exclusive race and national culture. At the same time, and somewhat contradictorily, the Nazis combined elements of Germany's Lutheran community tradition with its Northern European, organic pagan past. Elements of militarism found their way into Hitler's own theology, as he preached that his was a "true" or "master" religion, because it would "create mastery" and avoid comforting lies. Those who preached love and tolerance, "in contravention to the facts", were said to be "slave" or "false" religions. The man who recognized these "truths", Hitler continued, was said to be a "natural leader", and those who denied it were said to be "natural slaves". "Slaves" – especially intelligent ones, he claimed – were always attempting to hinder their masters by promoting false religious and political doctrines.

Anti-clericalism can also be interpreted as part of Nazi ideology, simply because the new Nazi hierarchy was not about to let itself be overode by the power that the Church traditionally held. In Austria, clerics had a powerful role in politics and ultimately responded to the Vatican. Although a few exceptions exist, Christian persecution was primarily limited to those who refused to accommodate the new regime and yield to its power. The Nazis often used the church to justify their stance and included many Christian symbols in the Third Reich (Steigmann–Gall). A particularly poignant exemplar is the seen in the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Volkism was inherently hostile toward atheism: freethinkers clashed frequently with Nazis in the late 1920s and early 1930s. On taking power, Hitler banned freethought organizations and launched an “anti-godless” movement. In a 1933 speech he declared: “We have . . . undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out.” This forthright hostility was far more straightforward than the Nazis’ complex, often contradictory stance toward traditional Christian faith

Answer 5

The NAZIS were a political party, like the Republicans or Democrats. As such they did NOT have an official religion.

They were made up of German people whose families may have been Protestant or Catholic. Hitler for example was a Roman Catholic and an ALTAR BOY in his youth.

However, their ideologies of German superiority and expansion tended to EXCLUDE any religious aspect. The NAZI parrty's huge (100,000 attendees) never began a benediction or blessing of any kind.

So it is safe to say that the NAZI party had NO RELIGION. I'm sure there were those who had private religious feelings but these were kept to themselves, except when they were dying, when, it has been reported, they uttered such phrases as "GOTT im HIMMEL". (God, in Heaven).

Answer 6

Hittler studied the Vedic scriptures, that were written in Sanskrit 5000 years ago in India.
In the Bhagavat gita Krishna says to His friend Arjuna:
"Sri-bhagavän uväca
kutas tvä kasmalam idam
visame samupasthitam
Anaryan-justam asvargyam
akirti-karam arjuna"

Purport

In the presence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Arjuna's lamentation for his kinsmen is certainly unbecoming, and therefore Krishna expressed His surprise with the word kutas, "wherefrom." Such impurities were never expected from a person belonging to the civilized class of men known as Äryans. The word Äryan is applicable to persons who know the value of life and have a civilization based on spiritual realization.
Persons who have no knowledge of liberation from material bondage are called non-Äryans.
He also wore a Swastika up side down on their arms, that is used in festival for those who follow the Vedic culture.
He also believe in reincarnation.

Answer 7

Toward the end they were beginning to practice Germanic paganism during funerals. By this time they had killed over 60 Million people (including combatants). Otherwise they were predominantly divided between protestant and Catholic Christian sects. Many of these did not support the Nazis.

Answer 8

The Nazis themselves were almost all Christians.

Hitler, and some of the top government staff, had some very weird occult beliefs. It was christianity combined with mysticism from India, Japan, German mythology....all sorts of fun things.

If you ever want to research Hitler's ideology...star with researching the Thule Party.

Answer 9

Hitler and his inner circle of Officers were baptized Catholics. There are a number of photos in the historical archives showing the German Bishop blessing the weapons of the solders.

Of course, you have to presume that Hitler and his officers were self professed Christians, as in the beginning they wanted to be accepted by the German citizens, and it is simple to claim to be a Christian, while not living in the light of Christ and God. That is still common today. But, the Church never did excommunicate him or his officers. You would think they would have done that at least to the ones were survived the war.

Recently on the Discovery Channel, a program on Himmler talked about this.

Answer 10

See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism_and_religion#Nazi_mysticism
and here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_mysticism

Hitler's religion is debatable.On the one hand,he played lip service to Catholicism.On the other hand,in private,he made very negative statements toward Christians,and even Christians were put into concentration camps.
"The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges: the pox and Christianity."~Hitler

Answer 11

The Nazis were products of a Christian culture and were aided and abetted by Christians.

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil
is that good people do nothing.”
British statesman Edmund Burke

Indifference in the face of evil is complicity with evil.

We are God’s hands and feet

To do no wrong is the first step to doing right!

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me-- and there was no one left to speak out for me.
-Pastor Martin Niemöller, 1945

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