Did Hitler consider himself a Christian being that he said that he was a Christian in his 1922 book titled "My New Order?"
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Why would some Christians say he was never a Christian,.
rather than saying he was never a true Christian unless they feel that
Hitlers hatred reflects some bias against the Jews or some other bias or
hatred that they have seen in the bible. Or that they feel that the bible blames the Jews for something that they did. Here is a link to Hitler's quote that is below. And call it Atheist dogma if you will but the fact that he felt he was a Christian can be checked on the web and in his own writings.
http://atheism.about.com/od/adolfhitlernazigermany/a/HitlerJe...
In a speech from April 12, 1922 and published in his book My New Order, Adolf Hitler explains his perspective on Jesus Christ:
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. How terrific was his fight against the Jewish
poison. 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.
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Templar 2012/06/13 16:40:55Hitler thought he was a type of Christian
+13No doubt he thought of himself as Christian and as the champion of the faith fighting the atheistic communists. But there are serious discrepancies in his life and his allies. He apparently had a perverted sexual relationship with his niece who probably killed herself out of shame at the things he made her do. Then his close involvement with homosexuals and his rise to power using homosexual gangsters as his power base is not Christian either. Ernst Roehm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... organized and led the SA, which was recruited from the "athletic clubs" of depression Germany (actually gay bath houses). The SA was overwhelmingly homosexual and the SS which replaced it was predominantly gay until the war started and it was greatly enlarged by ethnic Germans from outside Germany, etc. Much is made of "gays" being made to wear pink triangles in the concentration camps much later, but no one was sent to the camps for being homosexual, it was merely another way to humiliate communists and socialists sent to the camps for political opposition to the Nazis. I do not believe a real Christian would have been so closely allied with so many homosexuals.
but I do know Im not a follower of his actions.
The German Christian church was never very popular with the general public, and in any case was simply an intermediate step in a 50-year Nazi plan to supplant Christianity with a more "Germanic" religion, such as the paganism Himmler had in mind.
As for Hitler's self-serving words about Christianity, one would do better to consider his ACTIONS. He closed all church schools and forced all young people into the Hitler Youth, where they were politically (and anti-religiously) indoctrinated.
I don't know of any polling data, but the statement is probably true. However, remember that the Hitler Youth were not initially very popular, until the Nazis said, "join, or else."
"Thus, instead of creating uniformity and unity, the German Christians actually divided the church more than ever before and steadily lost influence in the following years. Total state control and “coordination” of the Protestant Church would never be achieved."
http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-...
As for the Hitler Youth, of course many parents didn't like it, but the Nazis went to great lengths to indoctrinate the kids, and quite successfully at that, to the extent that they had teen-agers fighting the Red Army in the last days of Berlin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Notice the officer in the background wiping away a tear at 0:53.
He was only fooling himself and his followers.