Verska prepričanja Adolfa Hitlerja, nemškega diktatorja od leta 1933 do 1945, so bila predmet razprave. Njegovo mnenje o verskih zadevah se je sčasoma precej spreminjalo. Na začetku svoje politične kariere je Hitler javno izražal naklonjeno mnenje o krščanstvu., p. 265: "During the Kampfzeit and into the first years of the Third Reich, he maintained – both publicly and privately – that the movement bore some fundamental relationship to Christianity, as witnessed by his repeated intonations of positive Christianity and his repeated reference to the relevance, even priority, of Christian social ideas to his own movement. Then we see an apparent total rejection of those same ideas near the end." Nekateri zgodovinarji njegovo poznejšo držo opisujejo kot "protikrščansko".* Alan Bullock; Hitler: a Study in Tyranny; Harper Perennial Edition 1991; p. 219: "Hitler had been brought up a Catholic and was impressed by the organization and power of the Church... [but] to its teachings he showed only the sharpest hostility... he detested [Christianity]'s ethics in particular" Ian Kershaw; Hitler: A Biography; Norton; 2008 ed; pp. 295–297: "In early 1937 [Hitler] was declaring that 'Christianity was ripe for destruction', and that the Churches must yield to the 'primacy of the state', railing against any compromise with 'the most horrible institution imaginable'" Richard J. Evans; The Third Reich at War; Penguin Press; New York 2009, p. 547: Evans wrote that Hitler believed Germany could not tolerate the intervention of foreign influences such as the Pope and "Priests, he said, were 'black bugs', 'abortions in black cassocks'". Evans noted that Hitler saw Christianity as "indelibly Jewish in origin and character" and a "prototype of Bolshevism", which "violated the law of natural selection". Richard Overy: The Dictators Hitler's Germany Stalin's Russia; Allen Lane/Penguin; 2004. p 281: "[Hitler's] few private remarks on Christianity betray a profound contempt and indifference". A. N. Wilson; Hitler a Short Biography; Harper Press; 2012, p. 71.: "Much is sometimes made of the Catholic upbringing of Hitler... it was something to which Hitler himself often made allusion, and he was nearly always violently hostile. 'The biretta! The mere sight of these abortions in cassocks makes me wild!'" Laurence Rees; The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler; Ebury Press; 2012; p. 135.; "There is no evidence that Hitler himself, in his personal life, ever expressed any individual belief in the basic tenets of the Christian church" Derek Hastings (2010). Catholicism and the Roots of Nazism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 181 : Hastings considers it plausible that Hitler was a Catholic as late as his trial in 1924, but writes that "there is little doubt that Hitler was a staunch opponent of Christianity throughout the duration of the Third Reich." Joseph Goebbels (Fred Taylor Translation); The Goebbels Diaries 1939–41; Hamish Hamilton Ltd; London; 1982; : In his entry for 29 April 1941, Goebbels noted long discussions about the Vatican and Christianity, and wrote: "The Fuhrer is a fierce opponent of all that humbug". Albert Speer; Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs; Translation by Richard and Clara Winston; Macmillan; New York; 1970; p. 123: "Once I have settled my other problem," [Hitler] occasionally declared, "I'll have my reckoning with the church. I'll have it reeling on the ropes." But Bormann did not want this reckoning postponed ... he would take out a document from his pocket and begin reading passages from a defiant sermon or pastoral letter. Frequently Hitler would become so worked up ... and vowed to punish the offending clergyman eventually ... That he could not immediately retaliate raised him to a white heat ..." Hitler's Table Talk: "The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble. All that's left is to prove that in nature there is no frontier between the organic and the inorganic. When understanding of the universe has become widespread, when the majority of men know that the stars are not sources of light but worlds, perhaps inhabited worlds like ours, then the Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity." Hitler je tudi kritiziral ateizem.
Hitler se je rodil katoliški materi, Klari Hitler, in je bil krščen v Rimskokatoliški cerkvi; njegov oče je bil svobodomislec in skeptik do katoliške cerkve. Leta 1904 je bil poslan v rimskokatoliško katedralo v Linzu v Avstriji, kjer je živela družina. Po besedah Johna Willarda Tolanda priče trdijo, da je moral Hitlerjev pokrovitelj birme "vleči besede iz njega … skoraj tako, kot da bi mu bila celotna birma odvratna".Bullock (1991), p.26 Hitlerjev biograf John Toland meni, da je Hitler nosil v sebi svoj nauk, da so bili Judje morilci Boga. "Iztrebljanje je bilo torej mogoče izvesti brez kančka vesti, saj je deloval le kot maščevalna Božja roka" je dejal Toland. Rissmann ugotavlja, da po navedbah več prič, ki so živele s Hitlerjem v domu na Dunaju, ni nikoli več obiskoval maše ali prejemal zakramentov, potem ko je zapustil dom pri 18 letih.Rissmann, Michael (2001). Hitlers Gott: Vorsehungsglaube und Sendungsbewußtsein des deutschen Diktators. Zürich, München: Pendo, pp. 94–96; . Krieger trdi, da je Hitler zapustil katoliško cerkev, medtem ko je Hitlerjev zadnji tajnik trdil, da Hitler ni bil član nobene religije. Otto Strasser je o diktatorju kritično izjavil: "Hitler je ateist." zaradi njegove vznemirljive simpatije do "Rosenbergovega poganstva". Hitler je leta 1941 zasebno zagotovil generalu Gerhardu Engelu, da "je sedaj kot prej katoličan in da bo to zavedno ostal."John Toland, "Adolf Hitler", 1992. p. 507.
V govoru v zgodnjih letih svoje vladavine je Hitler izjavil, da "ni katolik, ampak nemški kristjan".John S. Conway. Review of Steigmann-Gall, Richard, The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919–1945. H-German, H-Net Reviews. June, 2003: John S. Conway considered that Steigmann-Gall's analysis differed from earlier interpretations only by "degree and timing", but that if Hitler's early speeches evidenced a sincere appreciation of Christianity, "this Nazi Christianity was eviscerated of all the most essential orthodox dogmas" leaving only "the vaguest impression combined with anti-Jewish prejudice..." which few would recognize as "true Christianity".Norman H. Baynes, ed. The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922–August 1939, Vol. 1 of 2, pp. 19–20, Oxford University Press, 1942Hitler, Adolf (1999). Mein Kampf. Ralph Mannheim, ed., New York: Mariner Books, pp. 65, 119, 152, 161, 214, 375, 383, 403, 436, 562, 565, 622, 632–633. Nemški kristjani so bili takrat protestantska skupina v Nemčiji, ki je podpirala nacistično ideologijo. Hitler in nacistična stranka sta prav tako spodbujala "nekonfesionalno" pozitivno krščanstvo, gibanje, ki je zavračalo večino tradicionalnih krščanskih doktrin, kot je Jezusova božanskost, pa tudi judovske elemente, kot je Stara zaveza.William L. Shirer; The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich; Secker & Warburg; London; 1990, p. 234."Confessing Church" in Dictionary of the Christian Church, F. L. Cross and E. A. Livingston, eds.; William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960), pp. 235 f. V eni pogosto citirani pripombi je Jezusa opisal kot »arijskega borca«, ki se je boril proti »moči in pretenzijam pokvarjenih farizejev« in judovskemu materializmu.Schramm, Percy Ernst (1978) "The Anatomy of a Dictator" in Hitler: The Man and the Military Leader. Detwiler, Donald S., ed. Malabar, Florida: Robert E. Kreiger Publishing Company. pp. 88–91. ; originally published as the introduction to Picker, Henry (1963) Hitlers Tischgespräche im Führerhauptquarter ("Hitler's Table Talk")Hitler je pokazal naklonjenost tudi protestantizmu in luteranstvu z izjavo: »Po meni bi Evangeličanska protestantska cerkev lahko postala uveljavljena cerkev, kot v Angliji« ter da »veliki reformator Martin Luther ima zasluge za upor proti papežu in katoliški cerkvi«.
Hitlerjev režim si je prizadeval za koordinacijo nemških protestantov v skupni protestantski rajhski cerkvi (vendar se je temu uprla Izpovedna cerkev) in se je zgodaj lotil odprave političnega katolištva.Ian Kershaw; Hitler a Biography; 2008 Edn; W. W. Norton & Company; London; p. 290. Čeprav je bilo nacistično vodstvo izobčeno iz Katoliške cerkve, je Hitler sprejel sporazum rajha z Vatikanom, a ga je nato rutinsko ignoriral in dovolil preganjanje Katoliške cerkve.Ian Kershaw. Hitler a Biography; 2008 Edition; W.W. Norton & Company; London p. 661. Več zgodovinarjev je vztrajalo, da so na Hitlerja in njegov ožji krog vplivale druge vere. V hvalnici, ki ga je poslal prijatelju, ga je Hitler pozval, naj vstopi v Valhallo, vendar je kasneje izjavil, da bi bilo neumno ponovno vzpostaviti čaščenje Odina (ali Wotana) znotraj germanskega poganstva. Hitler je prevzel svastiko, sveti simbol hinduizma, in menil, da bi bil islam združljiv z nemškim ljudstvom. Nekateri zgodovinarji trdijo, da je bil pripravljen odložiti konflikte iz političnih razlogov in da so bili njegovi nameni sčasoma odpraviti krščanstvo v Nemčiji ali ga vsaj reformirati, da bi to ustrezalo nacističnemu pogledu.
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