what is Hitler's religion?

Question

childhood life story of Hitler

Answer 1

The rise of Adolf Hitler to the position of dictator of Germany is the story of a frenzied ambition that plunged the world into the worst war in history. Only an army corporal in World War I, Hitler became Germany's chancellor 15 years later.

He was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau-am-Inn, Austria, of German descent. His father Alois was the illegitimate son of Maria Anna Schicklgruber. In middle age Alois took the name Hitler from his paternal grandfather. After two wives had died Alois married his foster daughter, Klara Poelzl, a Bavarian, 23 years younger than he. She became Adolf's mother.

Hitler's rambling, emotional autobiography ‘Mein Kampf' (My Struggle) reveals his unstable early life. His father, a petty customs official, wanted the boy to study for a government position. But as young Hitler wrote later, “the thought of slaving in an office made me ill . . . not to be master of my own time.” Passively defying his father, the self-willed boy filled most of his school hours with daydreams of becoming a painter. His one school interest was history, especially that of the Germans. When his teacher glorified Germany's role, “we would sit there enraptured and often on the verge of tears.” From boyhood he was devoted to Wagner's operas that glorified the Teutons' dark and furious mythology.

Failure dogged him. After his father's death, when Adolf was 13, he studied watercolor painting, but accomplished little. After his mother's death, when he was 19, he went to Vienna. There the Academy of Arts rejected him as untalented. Lacking business training, Hitler eked out a living as a laborer in the building trades and by painting cheap postcards. He often slept in parks and ate in free soup kitchens.

These humbling experiences inflamed his discontent. He hated Austria as “a patchwork nation” and looked longingly across the border at energetic, powerful Germany. He wrote, “I was convinced that the State [Austria] was sure to obstruct every really great German and to support . . . everything un-German. . . . I hated the motley collection [in Austria] of Czechs, Ruthenians, Poles, Hungarians, Serbs, Croats, and above all that ever-present fungoid growth—Jews . . . I became a fanatical anti-Semite.”

Hitler's hatred of poverty, his rabid devotion to his German heritage, and his loathing of Jews combined to form the seeds of his later political doctrine. He studied the political skill of Vienna's mayor and took special note of that leader's practice of “using all instruments of existing power, and of gaining the favor of influential institutions . . . so he could draw the greatest possible advantages for his own movement from such old-established sources of power.” Hitler later applied this technique in Germany.

In 1912 Hitler left “wretched” Vienna for Munich, a “true German town.” There he drifted from job to job as carpenter, architect's draftsman, and watercolorist. Always he ranted about his political ideas.

At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, he gave up his Austrian citizenship to enlist in the 16th Bavarian infantry regiment. He would not fight for Austria, “but I was ready to die at any time for my people [Germans].” In his first battle, the Ypres offensive of 1914, he shouted the song ‘Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles.' On the Somme in 1916 he was a “front fighter” against British tanks, rose to lance corporal, won the Iron Cross as dispatch runner, and was wounded. In 1917 he fought in the third battle of Ypres.

Answer 2

He was raised catholic but adopted and used the countries newest, fastest growing, and dominant religion, theosophy to come to power. He used some of the works of the theosophical society roughly based on buddhism brought to the west by H.P. Blavatsky. The Nazi symbol was a symbol taken from esoteric Buddhism. He also used this belief to rally support for his cause, much like Bush used the christian right to gain support. Hitlers childhood was nothing significant, as i saw it, middle class, poor student, etc.

Answer 3

Hitler was actually raised as a Roman Catholic but rejected it. There were rumours of Hitler being part Jewish but they were never confirmed. He ended up preferring Protestantism due to it being open to reinterpretations. He also admired Islam and the Muslim military tradition.

Answer 4

Hitler was a Catholic.
He was brought up in the Catholic faith, there is no evidence he ever became apostate.
He made numerous references to his faith in Mein Kampf, and in speeches to the Germans from 1933 to 1944.

He justified his anti-semitism with the usual Catholic slur of "Christ-Killers" and the Third Reich had both tacit and overt support from the Vatican and Pope Pious XII

The picture is clouded by his liking for Germanic mythology, such as the Valkarie and the nordic traditions, but he used them in the same way that modern politicians use pop culture to connect with their electorate.

Catholics (and Christians more generally) understandably do not like that Hitler was one of them, and will try terribly hard to tell you that he was an atheist. The evidence shows that he wasn't, I'm afraid.

Answer 5

That could be considered a bit up in the air.

While he was most likely raised a Christian, due to the country he was in, there were a number of other options.

Germany was one of the big countries to first put forward Atheism.

Hitler and his SS formed their own secret cult for the purpose of making his secret police even more secretive and trustworthy. They intertwined numerous occult ideas and practices to become more ceremonial and officious.

Answer 6

i think hitler's religion was satanism.

Answer 7

He claimed to be Christian but in his heart he was a satanist.

Answer 8

artist

Answer 9

he was Christian

"As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice".

-adolph hitler

Answer 10

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler's_religious_beliefs