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Hitler was born to a practicing Catholic mother, Klara Hitler, and was baptized in the Roman Catholic Church; his father, Alois Hitler, was a free-thinker and skeptical of the Catholic Church. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In 1904, he was confirmed at the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Linz , Austria , where the family lived. [ 8 ]
On 4 June 1936, it addressed a letter to Hitler protesting the anti-Christian policies of the regime, denouncing its anti-Semitism and demanding an end to State interference in Church issues. This letter was also published abroad and spurred a ruthless backlash from the regime, closing down theological seminaries , confiscating Church funds and ...
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A census in May 1939, six years into the Nazi era [1] and a year following the annexations of Austria and Czechoslovakia [2] into Germany, indicates [3] that 54% of the population considered itself Protestant, 41% considered itself Catholic, 3.5% self-identified as Gottgläubig [4] (lit. "believing in God"), [5] and 1.5% as "atheist". [4]
Nazi propaganda depicted Communism as an enemy both within Germany and all of Europe. Communists were the first group attacked as enemies of the state when Nazis ascended to power. [3] According to Hitler, the Jews were the archetypal enemies of the German Volk, and no Communism or Bolshevism existed outside Jewry. [73]
Hitler pressured parents to remove children from religious classes for ideological instruction; in elite Nazi schools, Christian prayers were replaced with Teutonic rituals and sun worship. [78] Church kindergartens were closed, and Catholic welfare programs were restricted because they assisted the "racially unfit".
Hitler spoke for the first hour, then Faulhaber told him that the Nazi government had been waging war on the church for three years – 600 religious teachers had lost their jobs in Bavaria alone – and the number was set to rise to 1700 and the government had instituted laws the church could not accept – like the sterilization of criminals ...