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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. Martin Bormann, Hitler's private secretary, was a leading proponent of anti-clericalism. Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg despised ...
Nazi persecution of the Jews grew steadily worse throughout era of the Third Reich. Hamerow wrote that during the prelude to the Holocaust between Kristallnacht in November 1938 and the 1941 invasion of Soviet Russia, the position of the Jews "deteriorated steadily from disenfranchisement to segregation, ghettoization and sporadic mass murder". [18]
It was Hitler's belief that if religion is a help, "it can only be an advantage". Most of the 3 million Nazi Party members "still paid the Church taxes" and considered themselves Christians. [179] Regardless, a number of Nazi radicals in the party hierarchy determined that the Church Struggle should be continued. [180]
In a report entitled The Nazi Master Plan: The Persecution of the Christian Churches, the OSS said: Throughout the period of National Socialist rule, religious liberties in Germany and in the occupied areas were seriously impaired. The various Christian Churches were systematically cut off from effective communication with the people.
According to von Hasselbach, Hitler did not share Martin Bormann's conception that Nazi ceremonies could become a substitute for church ceremonies, and was aware of the religious needs of the masses. "He went on for hours discussing the possibility of bridging the confessional division of the German people and helping them find a religion ...
He proposed that Jesus was of Aryan origin, and believed that Hitler was the new messiah. [ 11 ] After Nazi Germany surrendered at the end of World War II in Europe , the U.S. Office of Strategic Services published a report which was titled "The Nazi Master Plan: The Persecution of the Christian Churches". [ 12 ]
In 1962, Germany signed a deal with Italy whereby it paid Rome 40 million Deutsche mark, worth just over 1 billion euros in today's money, which the two nations agreed covered damages inflicted by ...
The Nazis co-opted the term Gleichschaltung (coordination) to mean conformity and subservience to the Nazi Party line: "there was to be no law but Hitler, and ultimately no god but Hitler". [9] Other authors, such as Richard Steigmann-Gall , argue that there were anti-Christian individuals in the Nazi Party but that they did not represent the ...