“This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.”
( Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Ralph Mannheim, ed., New York: Mariner Books, 1999, p. 152. )
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“While we destroyed the Centre Party, we have not only brought thousands of priests back into the Church, but to millions of respectable people we have restored their faith in their religion and in their priests. The union of the Evangelical Church in a single Church for the whole Reich, the Concordat with the Catholic Church, these are but milestones on the road which leads to the establishment of a useful relation and a useful co operation between the Reich and the two Confessions.”
( Adolf Hitler, in his New Year Message, January 1, 1934. )
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“National Socialism has always affirmed that it is determined to take the Christian Churches under the protection of the State. For their part the churches cannot for a second doubt that they need the protection of the State, and that only through the State can they be enabled to fulfill their religious mission. Indeed, the churches demand this protection from the State.”
( Adolf Hitler, in a Radio Broadcast July 22, 1933; from My New Order. )
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“I know that here and there the objection has been raised: Yes, but you have deserted Christianity. No, it is not that we have deserted Christianity; it is those who came before us who deserted Christianity. We have only carried through a clear division between politics, which have to do with terrestrial things, and religion, which must concern itself with the celestial sphere. There has been no interference with the doctrine of the Confessions or with their religious freedom, nor will there be any such interference. On the contrary the State protects religion, though always on the one condition that religion will not be used as a cover for political ends.
“There may have been a time when even parties founded on the ecclesiastical basis were a necessity. At that time Liberalism was opposed to the Church, while Marxism was anti-religious. But that time is past. National Socialism neither opposes the Church nor is it anti-religious, but on the contrary, it stands on the ground of a real Christianity.
“The Church's interests cannot fail to coincide with ours alike in our fight against the symptoms of degeneracy in the world of to-day, in our fight against the Bolshevist culture, against an atheistic movement, against criminality, and in our struggle for the consciousness of a community in our national life, for the conquest of hatred and disunion between the classes, for the conquest of civil war and unrest, of strife and discord. These are not anti-Christian, these are Christian principles.”
( Adolf Hitler, in a speech delivered at Koblenz, August 26, 1934. )
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“It would be more in keeping with the intention of the noblest man in this world if our two Christian churches, instead of annoying Negroes with missions which they neither desire nor understand, would kindly, but in all seriousness, teach our European humanity that where parents are not healthy it is a deed pleasing to God to take pity on a poor little healthy orphan child and give him father and mother, than themselves to give birth to a sick child who will only bring unhappiness and suffering on himself and the rest of the world.”
( Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Ralph Mannheim, ed., New York: Mariner Books, 1999, p. 403. )
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“I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator. By warding off the Jews I am fighting for the Lords work.”
( Adolf Hitler, in a speech delivered at Reichstag, Berlin, 1936. )
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“At the head of our [National Socialist] program there stand no secret surmisings but clear-cut perception and straightforward profession of belief. But since we set as the central point of this perception and of this profession of belief the maintenance and hence the security for the future of a being formed by God, we thus serve the maintenance of a divine work and fulfill a divine will—not in the secret twilight of a new house of worship, but openly before the face of the Lord.”
( Adolf Hitler, in a speech delivered at Nuremberg, September 6, 1938. )
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“May God Almighty give our work His blessing, strengthen our purpose, and endow us with wisdom and the trust of our people, for we are fighting not for ourselves but for Germany.”
( Adolf Hitler, in a speech delivered at Berlin, February 1, 1933. )
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“The judgment whether a people is virtuous or not virtuous can hardly be passed by a human being. That should be left to God.”
( Adolf Hitler, in a speech delivered at Wilhelmshaven, April 1, 1939. )
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Further Reading:
Hitler's Christianity: by James Walker
On the Trail of Bogus Quotes: by Richard C. Carrier
Hitler Was Not An Atheist: by John P. Murphy
Religion and the Holocaust: by Richard E. Smith
Hitler: Christian, Atheist, or Neither?: by Dean Mischewski
Was Hitler an Atheist or a Theist? More Importantly, Who Cares?: by Mark Vuletic
Copin' with Copan: The Defense of Zacharias that Fails: by Doug Krueger
Was Hitler A Christian?: by Solid Rock Ministries
Hitler Aims Blow at 'Godless' Move: Lansing State Journal
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