What was Hitler's religion?

Question

Did whatever church Hitler belonged to take any action against him at any time?

Answer 1

Although Catholics are not eager to claim Hitler, he was one.

Hitler said it again at a Nazi Christmas celebration in 1926: "Christ was the greatest early fighter in the battle against the world enemy, the Jews ... The work that Christ started but could not finish, I -- Adolf Hitler -- will conclude."

In a Reichstag speech in 1938, Hitler again echoed the religious origins of his crusade. "I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator. By warding off the Jews, I am fighting for the Lord's work."

Hitler regarded himself as a Catholic until he died. "I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so," he told Gerhard Engel, one of his generals, in 1941.

Answer 2

Hitler admired and despised Christianity at the same time. He admired how Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church had built up such a following of loyalty and devotion. But Hitler was also careful to use the Church for his own career, attending church with his nazi followers of the image of good god fearing Germans.

An example of this is the use of the German swastika, and Heinrich Himmler's SS affiliation with old teutonic myths - the templar knights, and protecting christianity and the German superiority. It could even by cynically viewed that anti-Jewish feelings in Germany, tapped into by the Nazis, came from Germany's strong christian history - as the home of protestantism.

But for Hitler, he despised those Roman Catholics that challenged the state. Hitler had no problems in imprisoning Lutheran Pastor Martin Niemoller, who criticised the Church.

When looking at Hitler and his relation with the Church, one has to be careful because Hitler was very contradictory in his views and opinion, switching from admiration to absolute contempt and hatred.

Answer 3

"But in fact, Germany was Hitler's religion. Though far from an atheist, Hitler was a Roman Catholic apostate. He at times would say things such as, "The National Socialist State professes its allegiance to Positive Christianity" [1934] — Positive Christianity being nonsectarian — and at other times would say, "National Socialism and Christianity cannot exist together" [1941]. It is certainly reasonable to suppose that Hitler used religion as Machiavelli recommended: as a tool of political influence and control. Therefore, Hitler would say about churches, "For their interests cannot fail to coincide with ours alike in our fight against the degeneracy in the world of today" (sometime 1922-1939)........."

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Answer 4

Don't you read your history books ?---Hitler was an atheist (by his deeds) ,didn't drink ,and was a vegetarian. So many people wish to blame his actions on a religion--- what ever one that you do not like---you should be ashamed at your rhetoric , propaganda, and dogma. You spread the lies that you were told, and pass them off as fact. If you ever read "My Struggle" You know that he was by appalled all religious teaching that didn't allow his Ariana's to be the chosen people of God and that Jesus was a Ariana, he never married, and didn't have children. All the SS Officers that had children with selected mates was solely a State ceremony with no religious tones, readings, or religious representatives
Yes, He was born and raised a Catholic--but after World War I; he no longer followed or practiced this religion.
Why he stated that he believed in God, Jesus, and heaven --he believed that only the German people (Ariana) were descendants of Adam and Eve. The rest of everyone else evolved from the monkey. His actions no matter what people state or in his speeches Aline with any religion. I can state what ever I want--but my actions truly represent what I am. He was a Bastard child when it came to religion---no one wanted to claim him

Answer 5

His religion may have been Catholicism. In my opinion I feel he though he was God and not mortal. At the least I feel he equated himself with God or felt more powerful. Hope we never see such a sociopath, psychopathic, ego-manic again.

Answer 6

He was born in Austria and brought up as a Roman Catholic.

Answer 7

Hitler was a protestant Christian but in his later life he tried to make the 3rd Reich a religion. The Catholic Church tried to befriend him in order to perhaps get him to stop the death camps.

Answer 8

His father was Jewish, while he was Catholic.