"I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so."
— Adolf Hitler, to Gen. Gerhard Engel, 1941
"I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator."
— Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, p. 46
"I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work."
— Adolf Hitler, ibid. p. 65
"This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief."
— Adolf Hitler, ibid. p 152
"Thus
inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of
the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for the
'remaking' of the Reich as they call it."
— Adolf Hitler, ibid. Vol. 2 Chapter 1
"The
National Government will preserve and defend those basic principles on
which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the
foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of
national life."
— Adolf Hitler, Berlin, 1933, first radio address after coming to power.
"The national Government sees in both Christian denominations the most important factor for the maintenance of our society."
— Adolf Hitler, speech at the Reichstag, March 1933
"The
National Socialist State professes its allegiance to positive
Christianity. It will be its honest endeavor to protect both the great
Christian Confessions in their rights, to secure them from interference
with their doctrines, and in their duties to constitute a harmony with
the views and the exigencies of the State of today."
— Adolf Hitler, June 26 1934, to Catholic bishops
"Secular
schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious
instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious
foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and
religion must be derived from faith ... We need believing people."
— Adolf Hitler, April 1933, from a speech made during negotiations leading to the Nazi-Vatican Concordat of 1933
"The
fact that the Catholic Church has come to an agreement with Fascist
Italy ... proves beyond doubt that the Fascist world of ideas is closer
to Christianity than those of Jewish liberalism or even atheistic
Marxism..."
— Adolf Hitler in an article in the Völkischer Beobachter, 1929
"I
am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of
Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted."
— Adolf Hitler
"Today
Christians ... stand at the head of [this country]... I pledge that I
never will tie myself to parties who want to destroy Christianity .. We
want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit ... We want to
burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the
theater, and in the press - in short, we want to burn out the poison of
immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result
of liberal excess during the past ... (few) years."
— Adolf Hitler, quoted in: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, 1922-1939, Vol. 1
"We
were convinced that the people need and require this faith. We have
therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that
not merely with a few theoretical declarations; we have stamped it out."
— Adolf Hitler, speech, October 24, 1933
Here's a list of banned books in Germany, 1932-1939
"As
for the Jews, I am just carrying on with the same policy which the
Catholic Church has adopted for fifteen hundred years, when it has
regarded the Jews as dangerous and pushed them into ghettos etc.,
because it knew what the Jews were like. I don't put race above
religion, but I do see the danger in the representatives of this race
for Church and State, and perhaps I am doing Christianity a great
service."
— Adolf Hitler, 1936, to Bishop Berning and Msg. Steinman, representatives of Pope Pius XI
"The work that Christ started but could not finish, I — Adolf Hitler — will conclude."
— Adolf Hitler, December 1926.
Here, here,
and here are more of his quotes on religion, God, and
Christianity. Here are Nazi photos showing their alliance with
Christianity.
Note
that Adolf Hitler was never excommunicated or in any other way
officially censured by the Catholic Church. The only high-ranking
Catholic Nazi to be excommunicated was Propaganda Minister Joseph
Goebbels — because he married a divorced Protestant woman.
"The party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, without, however, allying itself to any particular denomination."
Article 24, Program of the National Socialist German Workers’ (Nazi) Party
"I
swear by God this sacred oath that I shall render unconditional
obedience to Adolf Hitler, the Leader of the German empire, supreme
commander of the armed forces, and that I shall at all times be
prepared, as a brave soldier, to give my life for this oath."
German WWII Military Oath
"Our religion is Christ, our politics Fatherland!"
— slogan of Hans Schemm, Bavarian Minister of Education and Culture during the Third Reich