The following is from a 1933 AP article (pre holocaust).
From the Lansing State Journal newspaper (Lansing, Michigan) of February 23, 1933.
HITLER AIMS BLOW AT 'GODLESS' MOVE
Chancellor's Forces Seek the Catholic Support for Latest Campaign
BERLIN, Feb. 23 (AP)--A campaign against the "godless movement" and an appeal for Catholic support were launched Wednesday by Chancellor Adolf Hitler's forces. They struck at two of his formidable opponents in the March 5 elections, the first at communists and the latter at the allied Catholic parties.
Meanwhile five more persons were killed and scores were injured Tuesday night in the incipient civil war which has been waging since Hitler's rise to power. This brought the number of deaths in political clashes since the first of the year, when Hitler began negotiations for the chancellorship, to about 70.
2007-12-11 02:16:27 · 8 answers · asked by ZombieTrix 2012 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
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A campaign against the "godless movement" was announced by Bernard Rust, nazi commissioner for education and culture in Prussia, in an address Tuesday night before students at the technical university here. He said the details would be revealed in the next few days. In his speech opening the campaign for the reichstag and Prussian diet elections, Hitler attacked communists for the spread of atheism.
An appeal to Catholic nazis was printed Wednesday in Hitler's Voelkischer Beobachter, assailing the Catholic centrist and populist parties. It recalled the papal encyclical of January 9, 1928, which admonished priests to serve the religious interests of the nation and not to affiliate with political parties. Hitler, himself, is a Catholic.
Nazis invaded a centrist campaign meeting at Trier but were repulsed after a stiff fight. Several persons were injured at Kiel and Opladen in nazi-reichsbanner clashes.
2007-12-11 02:16:42 · update #1
Yes, Rev... I agree. I meant to post this in R&S. Most people in history will just roll their eyes and say something like "Well, DUH!"
2007-12-11 02:23:11 · update #2
So Der Schreckliche, that makes him an ***, not an atheist.
2007-12-11 05:19:00 · update #3
I think the idea that he was an atheist comes from an unwillingness to see any truly evil person as Christian. Well, OK, "he wasn't a REAL Christian" is the inevitable result. But that does not make him an atheist. He believed in God and believed that God gave him the power to rule. Given the fact that most of his power was his incredibly effective oratory, and his ability with language and propaganda, if one believes such gifts are God-given, he was right!
The Pope thought so.
2007-12-11 02:26:28 · answer #1 · answered by auntb93 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
might I placed issues in perspective? i'm Jewish and that i for my section comprehend somebody who replaced into in Auschwitz as a youthful new child; he observed his mothers and dads and siblings get tortured and then gassed to dying. So frankly, i could no longer supply a damn whether Hitler and his fellow henchmen have been Christian, Atheist, or from outer blinking area - they have been evil incarnate in this earth and that's that. i think that 'genuine' Christians are good, honest human beings. sadly, Christianity itself has enshrined many fake and destructive perspectives of Jews and Judaism. and that's the suitable ingredient right here - no longer what a lunatic like Hitler believed or did no longer have faith! Rant over.
2016-11-02 21:32:25 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hitler came from Austria which was an extreme Roman catholic society with a long history of anti-semitism.
He gave the Vatican preferential treatment for catholic schools in Germany .
2007-12-11 04:05:02 · answer #3 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Fine. That's why adolfie decided to eliminate the jews in the first place and Catholic priests in the second, as human garbage
Get a job and go to school. You are wasting your very important contributions to the world
2007-12-11 04:19:28 · answer #4 · answered by Der Schreckliche 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Hitler wasn't an atheist. He believed he was God's right hand man and that God had asked him to do everything he did. He believed it was his job to unify all of Europe under one flag and that it was his right to be the ruler of all of Europe. Furthermore he believed that when he was equal with God and that when died he would rule Heaven along side God.
2007-12-11 03:30:09 · answer #5 · answered by TRE 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Hitler consistently said that he believed in "God" although there is some evidence that his public position and his private position may have not been entirely consistent.
See - Religious beliefs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler
GOOGLE: hitler's religion
2007-12-11 02:29:43 · answer #6 · answered by edzerne 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Can we just put a nail in the Hitler coffin period?
2007-12-11 02:23:44 · answer #7 · answered by WMD 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The literate among us knew this years ago...
2007-12-11 02:21:02 · answer #8 · answered by The Reverend Soleil 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋