Why wouldn't you believe Hitler was Catholic?

Question

"I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so." [Adolph Hitler, to Gen. Gerhard Engel, 1941]

http://profnewport.blogspot.com/2007/04/myth-of-atheist-hitler.html

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Answer 1

popes have consistently refused to excommunicate the worst of war criminals, even when fellow Catholics have appealed for such action to be taken. For example, the Catholic Telegraph-Register of Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A., under the heading “Reared as Catholic but Violates Faith Says Cable to Pope,” reported: “An appeal has been made to Pius XII that Reichsfuehrer Adolph Hitler be excommunicated. . . . ‘Adolph Hitler,’ [the cable] read in part, ‘was born of Catholic parents, was baptized a Catholic, and was reared and educated as such.’” Yet Hitler was never excommunicated.

“Hitler . . . had a Catholic as Vice-Chancellor and from practically the first day of the régime Franz von Papen became the drummer to attract the Catholic factions to a support of the new Reich. In every part of the Reich von Papen was to be heard exhorting the faithful to blind obedience to Adolf Hitler.”

“In early 1933 the following official announcement was made by the body corporate of Catholic action and thought in Germany, then led by [Franz] von Papen: ‘We German Catholics will stand, with all our soul and our full convictions, behind Adolf Hitler and his Government. We wonder at his love for fatherland, his energy and his statesmanly wisdom. . . . German Catholicism . . . must take an active part in the building-up of the Third Reich.’”

One historian writes: “The Concordat [with the Vatican] was a great victory for Hitler. It gave him the first moral support he had received from the outer world, and this from the most exalted source.” During the celebrations at the Vatican, Pacelli conferred on von Papen the high papal decoration of the Grand Cross of the Order of Pius. Winston Churchill, in his book The Gathering Storm, published in 1948, tells how von Papen further used “his reputation as a good Catholic” to gain church support for the Nazi takeover of Austria. In 1938, in honor of Hitler’s birthday, Cardinal Innitzer ordered that all Austrian churches fly the swastika flag, ring their bells, and pray for the Nazi dictator.

A terrible bloodguilt therefore rests on the Vatican! As a leading part of Babylon the Great, it helped significantly in putting Hitler into power and in giving him “moral” support. The Vatican went further in tacitly consenting to Hitler’s atrocities. During the long decade of Nazi terror, the Roman pontiff kept quiet while hundreds of thousands of Catholic soldiers were fighting and dying for the glory of the Nazi regime and while millions of other unfortunates were being liquidated in Hitler’s gas chambers.

If there had been no love affair between the Vatican and the Nazis, the world might have been spared the agony of having scores of millions of soldiers and civilians killed in the war, of six million Jews murdered for being non-Aryan.

Catholic Adolf Hitler found readier support among Protestants than among Catholics. Predominantly Protestant districts gave him 20 percent of their votes in the 1930 elections, Catholic districts only 14 percent. And the first absolute majority for the Nazi Party in state elections was in 1932 in Oldenburg, a district 75 percent Protestant. YES "ADOLF HITLER" was a "CATHOLIC"

Answer 2

Hitler was born into a nominal, non-practicing Catholic family, but chose to live his life as an atheist. Anyway, what possible difference would it make if a particular madman considered himself Catholic?? Anyone with an iota of common sense can see that everything he did was in direct opposition to everything the Catholic Church teaches and stands for. The question is meaningless on the face of it.

Answer 3

He was also part "Jewish", and 100% insane, my wife always yells at me for watching "Hitler" shows, It is absolutely AMAZING to me how people could follow a mad man. My wife always yells at me because of the "Concentration camp" scenes where the bodies are piled up. She asked me how anyone could film that, I said "They had to film it", she said "WHY", I said "Because they (German's) would DENY that they ever did such a thing, it's now on film for the world to NEVER forget". An amazing time in History, the coldness of the "Atrocities" is what amazes me, Never did I see humans be so cruel towards another Human Being, Animals don't even act like that !

Answer 4

He was Catholic in name only, but did not practice the faith.

Anyone can call himself anything. But actions speak louder. Hitler persecuted and killed many Catholics, besides all the Jews he murdered.

Albert Einstein testified:

"Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly."

Answer 5

Well, he did say that, but converted to "Positive Christianity" shorly thereafter, according to Wiki.

He hated and persecuted almost everybody: Jews, Socialists, Catholics, atheists, Poles, other Xians, and on and on.

Another HITLER: "My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter."

Answer 6

Because a true Catholic does not do the things he did.
In addition to persecuting jews, gypsies, the insane, the deformed, communists, Jehovah's Witnesses, he also persecuted those Catholic priests who spoke up against him.

Answer 7

People can call themselves anything they want but, the proofs in the pudding as they say or actions speak louder than words and I tell you he was no Catholic. He had excommunicated himself a long time before he was infamous.

Answer 8

Why are people trying to deny history. Parts Italy had locked Jewish ghettos, people had to wear hats and identifying clothing. up until WWI. This was done under the authority of the Pope

Not hard to see where Hitler got the idea from.

Answer 9

Hitler rejected Christianity. Joseph Goebbels notes in a diary entry in 1939: "The Führer is deeply religious, but deeply anti-Christian. He regards Christianity as a symptom of decay."

Answer 10

Hitler had a remarkable capacity for self-delusion.