Were many Nazis catholic?

Answer 1

Yes~!

Answer 2

Most Nazis were catholic (catholic is the term for the universal Christian church). However, on that same note most of the Nazis were Roman Catholic (the capital C Catholic) and Lutheran. It happened mostly in Germany afterall.

Answer 3

You've hit on a nasty little truth about Hitler's movement.

You might think of his fascism as the next long step in the reformation. Look at the Nazi art: the religious themes are everywhere, and the catholic nature of the symbology is hard to miss. What's odd, however, is the emergence within that structure of what would be accurately identified today as a kind of New Age Philosophy, with weird reinterpretations of science,
such as they theory of polar opposites. The Nazi philosphers believed, for example that at the heart of stars was ice.

This thought of outward form being expressed in opposite nature made it possible to do utter evil, on the theory that the underlying motive was pure good.

It was some crazy mixed up ****. But yes, it attracted Catholics. And protestants and atheists.

Answer 4

Firstly the Pope was not a member of the Nazi Party - he was a member of the Hitler Youth - as required in Germany at that time.
As most of Southern Germany and Austria is Catholic then yes a lot of Nazis were Catholic.

Answer 5

The pope sign contracts with Hitler, that they would support him. Hitler was a catholic. His father was one. His mother was a devout one. His military was full of them, and evil. One Franciscian catholic officer in Yugoslovia, arrested a family of four. The father was separated from his wife and two children, for a week, without food. At the end of week they brought in a nice roast for them to eat. Like starving dogs, they gobbled it down. After eating and full, the officer told them they had just ate there father. Another case there in a prison with 24,000 inmates, the head of the prison, a catholic, bet some officers he could kill more than they could in one night. He took a bulcher knife and cut the throats of 1360 that night. His winnings were one bottle of wine and a small pig to roast. Just google this online if you don't believe it. This was not that long ago. The catholic church is evil.

Answer 6

Some Nazis were brought up Catholic even Hitler.

But when they adopted the Nazi philosophy which is heretical to the Catholic Church they were automatically excommunicated.

Automatic excommunication happens when Catholics commit certain offensives. This happens as soon as the offense is committed.

Adolf Hitler committed the following offenses resulting in automatic excommunication:
- Apostasy - the formal renunciation of one's religion. Hitler specifically rejected the Catholic Church, as well as Christianity in general. He described himself as "a complete pagan.”
- Heresy - a doctrine in theology, religion, philosophy, or politics at variance with those of the Catholic Church. Nazism is definitely heretical to Christianity.

For Hitler's own words against Christianity, see: http://www.geocities.com/chiniquy/Hitler.html

For more information about excommunication, see: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05678a.htm
And: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excommunicate#Automatic_excommunication

With love in Christ.

Answer 7

About as many as there were Catholics that were Nazis.

Answer 8

Yes.Hitler himself was a chatolic."I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so”
Adolf Hitler (German Chancellor, leader of the Nazi party, 1889-1945)

The following photos provide a pictorial glimpse of Hitler, how his Nazis mixed religion with government, and the support for Hitler by the Protestant and Catholic Churches in Germany. In, no way, does this gallery of photos intend to support Nazism or anti-Semitism, but instead, intends to warn against them.

Answer 9

I'm sure the Nazi's came from all walks of life...after all it wasn't about religion as much as it was about an ideal. It was social. Sadly that social idea excluded Jewish people. But not solely because of their religious beliefs. They were believed to be inferior as humans by the Nazi movement. Hitler was obsessed with breeding the perfect race of humans.

Answer 10

In the southern regions of Germany probably 99,9% of nazis were catholic. Somewhat less so in the north.

Answer 11

many were but the Nazi was an ideology. the Catholic church has much to be ashamed of for their tacit support of Hitler and his regime.