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Christians appealed to Hitler to end anti-religious and anti-Church propaganda promulgated by Free Thinkers, [174] and within Hitler's Nazi Party, the atheist Martin Bormann was quite vocal in his anti-Christian views. [175]
The German Christians were a Protestant group that supported Nazi ideology. [12] Both Hitler and the Nazi Party promoted "nondenominational" positive Christianity, [13] [14] a movement which rejected most traditional Christian doctrines such as the divinity of Jesus, as well as Jewish elements such as the Old Testament.
The Nazi Party program of 1920 included a statement on religion which was numbered point 24. In this statement, the Nazi party demands freedom of religion (for all religious denominations that are not opposed to the customs and moral sentiments of the Germanic race); the paragraph proclaims the party's endorsement of Positive Christianity .
Although Adolf Hitler was raised as a Catholic, he came to despise the religion. Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels led the persecution of Catholic clergy in Germany. [63] Heinrich Himmler (left) and Reinhard Heydrich, heads of the Nazi security forces, were vehemently anti-Catholic.
In this sense, the word Nazi was a hypocorism of the German male name Igna(t)z (itself a variation of the name Ignatius)—Igna(t)z being a common name at the time in Bavaria, the area from which the NSDAP emerged. [17] [18] In the 1920s, political opponents of the NSDAP in the German labour movement seized on this.
The German Faith Movement (Deutsche Glaubensbewegung) was a religious movement in Nazi Germany (1933–1945), closely associated with University of Tübingen professor Jakob Wilhelm Hauer. The movement sought to move Germany away from Christianity towards a religion that was based on Germanic paganism and Nazi ideas.
German Protestantism since Luther. Eberle, Edward J. (2003). "Free Exercise of Religion in Germany and the United States." Tulane Law Review 78 (2003): 1023 onwards. Elon, Amos (2002). The Pity of It All: A History of Jews in Germany, 1743–1933. Evans, Ellen Lovell (1981). The German Center Party, 1870–1933: A Study in Political Catholicism ...
The Holocaust (/ ˈ h ɒ l ə k ɔː s t / ⓘ), [1] known in Hebrew as the Shoah (שואה), was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.