Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was the antisemitic dictator of the Nazi state that caused the death of millions of Jews during the Holocaust. Hitler was raised by a Catholic mother, baptized, confirmed in the Roman Catholic Church, and attended choir school at the Catholic Benedictine monastery in Lambach. He was personally close with Roman Catholic Benedictine Abbot, Alban Schachleiter and Lutheran Pastor Ludwig Müller. Hitler continued during his dictatorship to pay church taxes and never left the Catholic church.

After meeting with Hitler in 1936, Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber stated, “The Reich Chancellor undoubtedly lives in belief in God. He recognizes Christianity as the builder of Western culture.” In many of Hitler's remarks, he claimed events are arranged according to God's will and the Nazis' “actions correspond to the will of the Almighty.” Months after a failed assassination attempt by a bomb, Hitler in a radio broadcast, on January 30, 1945, credited “God the Almighty” for protecting him that day.

Quotes by Hitler
The following includes some statements made by Adolf Hitler:


 * “... I say: my feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only 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. 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. And as a man I have the duty to see to it that human society does not suffer the same catastrophic collapse as did the civilization of the ancient world some two thousand years ago—a civilization which was driven to its ruin through this same Jewish people. ... For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people. ...”, Adolf Hitler, speech in Munich, April 12, 1922.


 * “... Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord. ...”, Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Volume 1, Chapter 2.


 * “... We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity ... in fact our movement is Christian. ...”, Adolf Hitler, Passau, October 27, 1928.


 * “I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.”, Hitler quoted by General Gerhard Engel in 1941.

Statements from Hitler's allies
The following includes some statements made by Adolf Hitler's allies:


 * “Although he himself [Hitler] was a Catholic, he wished the Protestant Church to have a stronger position in Germany, ...”, Hermann Göring.


 * “I know Herr Hitler very well personally and am quite close to him. He has an unusually honorable character, full of profound kindness, is religious, a good Catholic.”, Rudolf Hess in 1920.


 * “Adolf Hitler, son of the Catholic Church, died while defending Christianity. It is therefore understandable that words cannot be found to lament over his death, when so many were found to exalt his life. Over his mortal remains stands his victorious moral figure. With the palm of the martyr, God gives Hitler the laurels of Victory.”, the press of the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco.

Hitler's artworks
Multiple artworks done by Hitler include paintings of churches and Mother Mary with Jesus Christ.

Photos
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