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[58] [59] William L. Shirer wrote that, "under the leadership of Rosenberg, Bormann and Himmler – backed by Hitler – the Nazi regime intended to destroy Christianity in Germany, if it could, and substitute the old paganism of the early tribal Germanic gods with the new paganism of the Nazi extremists". [186]
[175] One of the groups closed down by the Nazi regime was the German Freethinkers League. Christians appealed to Hitler to end anti-religious and anti-Church propaganda promulgated by Free Thinkers, [176] and within Hitler's Nazi Party, the atheist Martin Bormann was quite vocal in his anti-Christian views. [177]
Once in office, Hitler and his regime sought to reduce the influence of Christianity on society. [47] From the mid-1930s, his government was increasingly dominated by militant anti-church proponents like Goebbels, Bormann, Heinrich Himmler , Alfred Rosenberg and Reinhard Heydrich , whom Hitler appointed to key posts. [ 48 ]
William L. Shirer wrote, "Under the leadership of Rosenberg, Bormann and Himmler—backed by Hitler—the Nazi regime intended to destroy Christianity in Germany, if it could, and substitute the old paganism of the early tribal Germanic gods and the new paganism of the Nazi extremists." [68] Anti-clericalism was strong among grassroots party ...
Few, he said, paused to reflect that the Nazi regime intended to destroy Christianity and substitute the old paganism of the early tribal Germanic gods and the new paganism of the Nazi extremists. [22] Anti-Nazi sentiment grew in Catholic circles as the Nazi government increased its repressive measures. [23] Hoffmann writes that, from the ...
The tensions between the Nazi regime and the Protestant church bodies; and; The tensions between the Nazi regime and the Catholic Church. When Hitler obtained power in 1933, 95% of Germans were Christian, with 63% being Protestant and 32% being Catholic. [1]
A controversial Christian televangelist who once suggested Adolf Hitler was sent by God addressed one of the largest gatherings of Jewish Americans in decades.. Jewish progressive groups and peace ...
Positive Christianity (German: positives Christentum) was a religious movement within Nazi Germany which promoted the belief that the racial purity of the German people should be maintained by mixing racialistic Nazi ideology with either fundamental or significant elements of Nicene Christianity. Adolf Hitler used the term in point 24 [a] of ...