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Having lived a total of 8 years in Germany in my lifetime, I would say that many of those German soldiers actually believed that. They also believed it in WWI under the Kaiser.

The Kaiser, if I remember correctly, was a proper Evangelische. Hitler, on the other hand,

According to a press release from Catholic League President, William A. Donohue (2/4/99): "Hitler was a neo-pagan terrorist whose conscience was not informed by Christianity, but by pseudo-scientific racist philosophies. Hitler hated the Catholic Church, made plans to kill the Pope, authorized the murder of thousands of priests and nuns, and did everything he could to suppress the influence of the Church. In 1933, Hitler said, 'It is through the peasantry that we shall really be able to destroy Christianity because there is in them a true religion rooted in nature and blood.'" The Catholic League also quoted Hitler, in a 4/23/99 Op-Ed ad in the New York Times, as saying, "Antiquity was better than modern times, because it didn't know Christianity and syphilis." Ouch!
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mhitlerchristian.html