Schneidern empire wrote:Hurdegaryp wrote:European history is full of Christians butchering Christians. It's depressingly common, actually. To make matters even less savoury, every single military vehicle of the nazi warmachine was decorated with the Balkenkreuz, a symbol directly derived from the Christian cross.
I say again. Despite proclaiming that he was a Christian up until 1933, there is little doubt that Hitler was an atheist (albeit an extremist one). In private, (and later, in public) he openly mocked all religions. As well as this, Eugenics is a atheistic theory which he applied at the later part of his dictatorship.
Many leading academics would agree. Dr Ian Kershaw, authour of the standard book on Hitler, which is called simply Hitler, acknowledges this, and there are several examples given in his book. I urge you to check it out, before you critique me.
I'd disagree.
He certainly wasn't your conventional Christian, but Hitler did have this occultist thing going on for him, as did most upper tier Nazis. He was an ardent supporter of old Thule society doctrines, and somewhat skewed this in with his National Socialist policies and whatnot.
If anything, he had Neo-Germanic Paganism religious belief of sorts.