Did Hitler consider himself to be a Christian.?

Question

Evidently he did:

I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.

- Adolf Hitler, to General Gerhard Engel, 1941

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, Vol. 1 Chapter 1

As long as leadership from above was not lacking, the people fulfilled their duty and obligation overwhelmingly. Whether Protestant pastor or Catholic priest, both together and particularly at the first flare, there really existed in both camps but a single holy German Reich, for whose existence and future each man turned to his own heaven.

- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Vol. 1 Chapter 3

My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. ...Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed his blood upon the Cross. ...

- Adolf Hitler, speech on April 12, 1922

Just in case there are any of you still in denial.

Answer 1

Hitler Was a Christian

The Holocaust was caused by Christian fundamentalism:



History is currently being distorted by the millions of Christians who lie to have us believe that the Holocaust was not a Christian deed. Through subterfuge and concealment, many of today’s Church leaders and faithful Christians have camouflaged the Christianity of Adolf Hitler and have attempted to mark him an atheist, a pagan cult worshipper, or a false Christian in order to place his misdeeds on those with out Jesus. However, from the earliest formation of the Nazi party and throughout the period of conquest and growth, Hitler expressed his Christian support to the German citizenry and soldiers. Those who would make Hitler an atheist should turn their eyes to history books before they address their pews and chat rooms.

Considering that Christianity has thus far been incapable of producing an unbiased, educated follower which speaks the truth, (I haven’t encountered any), I have been forced to dispel the myth by writing this essay. It is not until I bring up his speeches, my personal info on the Nazi regime and their tactics that a Christian will begin to question what their clergy told them. (I am the offspring of a German soldier. My Opa served under Hitler in WW2 and my father was raised during the time of the Nazi regime. This is important information to take into consideration for I am privy to some info that most Americans do not know. It is common for American media and education institutions to lie to their citizens concerning Nazi Germany.) So, in presenting this information I must break it into four parts: 1) Facts about Hitler and his involvement with the Church. 2) How the Church was the catalyst for anti- Semitism. 3) Facts concerning how the Nazi regime drilled these beliefs into Germanic society. 4) Quotes Hitler made which prove he had a disdain for atheism/occultism, upheld his Christian faith, and hated Jews due to his Christianity.

Answer 2

My friend, the devil knows the Bible better than any of us. He has lived for thousands of years. Hitler was a silver tongued devil.

The current Pope calls himself Christian and he wants to make Mary equal with Christ. I'm telling you the real Mary would stand up and rebuke him. The real Mary said "Listen to Jesus." She did not say listen to me.

The Pope is not the ultimate authority of spiritual truth. The Bible is the ultimate authority of spiritual truth. Ratzinger (I show no respect) called protestants rebels and told us to abandon the authority of Scripture.

Soon, you will see sinners in the hands of an angry God. Read Revelation 17:1-6, 17:9 and 17:18 what church does this sound like? No wonder the Pope wants the Scriptures abandoned. John was given the Revelation of Jesus Christ and John saw the False Prophet and the false religion and the 7 hills.

I promise you when the Abomination of Desolation is set up in the Jewish Temple the Jews will recognize it. The Jews know an idol when they see one. They learned a long time ago - DO NOT worship idols.

Answer 3

Very good question, and obviously the christian crowd don't want to admit the he was. I liked your post so don't be discouraged by the dumb answers.."they know not what they do.." ha, ha
Many (most) horrible men through out history have been religious and a great many christian at that, but people can't handle the truth! Many more quotes below.

http://atheism.about.com/od/adolfhitlernazigermany/tp/AdolfHitlerFaithGod.htm?nl=1

Answer 4

Hardly. The Swastika was taken from ancient pre-Christian Paganism. In fact, much of the later Nazi propaganda was not only anti-christian, but based on ancient German Pagan beliefs.

Hitler HAD to give lip service to the churches, or he would NEVER have corrupted the German people as he did.

Answer 5

Hitler professed himself to be a christian because it helped him gain political power over the German people whom were also christian.

His hostility and lack of belief in God is self evident and his embrace of communist ideaologies only further rectifies his lack of belief in God. Communism is explicitly atheistic in its assent.

If you have doubts about that his actions certainly affirmed his hostility towards religion. Not only the Jews, homosexuals, mentally ill, BUT ALSO numerous clergy of the Catholic Church were killed in concentration camps. Two very famous saints killed in the camps were a priest (who took the place of death for a man with children): Maximillian Kolbe and a nun: Edith Stein. I sincerely doubt a devout christian would allow any of this.

From Wikipedia:
"In public statements, especially at the beginning of his rule, Hitler frequently spoke positively about the Christian heritage of German culture and his belief in the "Aryan" Christ. In doing so, he used his "ability to simulate, even to potentially critical Church leaders, an image of a leader keen to uphold and protect Christianity," according to Ian Kershaw. Kershaw adds that Hitler by this ability also succeeded in appeasing possible Church resistance to anti-Christian Nazi Party radicals.[12] For example, on March 23, 1933, he addressed the Reichstag: "The National Government regards the two Christian confessions as factors essential to the soul of the German people. It will respect the contracts they have made with the various regions. It declares its determination to leave their rights intact. In the schools, the government will protect the rightful influence of the Christian bodies. We hold the spiritual forces of Christianity to be indispensable elements in the moral uplift of most of the German people. We hope to develop friendly relations with the Holy See"[13] At one point he described his religious status: "I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so."[14] Hitler never formally ended his church membership, but according to Albert Speer, "he had no real attachment to it."[15]

Private statements
Hitler's private statements are more clear. There are negative statements about Christianity reported by Hitler's intimates, Goebbels, Speer, and Bormann.[17] Joseph Goebbels, for example, notes in a diary entry in 1939: "The Führer is deeply religious, but deeply anti-Christian. He regards Christianity as a symptom of decay." Albert Speer reports a similar statement: “You see, it’s been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn’t we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?"[18] In the Hossbach Memorandum Hitler is recorded as saying that "only the disintegrating effect of Christianity, and the symptoms of age" were responsible for the demise of the Roman empire.[19] In 1941, Hitler praised an anti-christian tract from 362CE, Julian's Against the Galileans, saying "I really hadn't known how clearly a man like Julian had judged Christians and Christianity, one must read this..."[20] He was reported to say that religion should die on its own accord.[21]"

Answer 6

I accept that he may have been feigning belief to garner public support for his ascendancy to power. He, like many world leaders who invoke religion, may not have been a "true believer."

But the fact that a genocidal maniac comes to power by invoking Christianity should be no less concerning than if he were actually a Christian.

Answer 7

Certainly Hitler called himself a Christian, but just because a person calls himself a Christian doesn't make him one. Jesus said, "By this will all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." In another verse the Bible say, "By their fruits you will know them."

No, Hitler was not a Christian.

Answer 8

I've never read "Mein Kampf", but I always heard it was terribly written and was laughed at before Hitler came to power. However, these verses are really quite well done and "poetic".

Hitler had to convince the German people that he would not replace their God with the Third Reich. He made these comments to garner public sympathy, but was no more Christian than the devil.

Answer 9

Yes, he was. And a vegetarian, a teetotal and a fervent anti smoker.

Given that Jesus was born a Jew, lived as a Jew and died a Jew it makes Hitler's anti Semitism even more bizarre.

Answer 10

the third reich was continually exploiting all manner of historic occultism for nazi symbolism, including tales of Atlantis as a historic basis for an Aryan race, and including christian lore (the search for christian relics such as the ark of the covenant was a real nazi enterprise, not just fodder in a Speilberg movie)