Religious views of Adolf Hitler
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Adolf Hitler was raised by an anticlerical, sceptic father and a devout Catholic mother. Baptized and confirmed as a child in Austria, he ceased to participate in the sacraments after childhood. In adulthood, Hitler became disdainful of Christianity, but in seeking out and in trying to retain power in Germany, he was prepared to set aside his views on religion out of political considerations. He repeatedly stated that Nazism was a secular ideology founded on science.
Reputable Hitler biographers agree Hitler was anti-Christian. This view is evidenced in sources such as the Goebbels Diaries, the memoirs of Albert Speer, and the transcripts edited by Martin Bormann which are contained within Hitler's Table Talk, an influential translation of which was completed by historian Hugh Trevor-Roper.
See also
- Benito Mussolini's religious beliefs
- German Christians
- Guilt by association
- Kirchenkampf
- Nazi occultism
- Race of Jesus
- Religion in Nazi Germany
- Religious aspects of Nazism
- Hitler on islam
- The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century
