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To: Wilhelm Tell
There were many Catholics in the Nazi leadership

Nobody at the higher levels of the leadership was a practicing Christian in any traditional sense. Hitler, Goebbels, and Himmler were raised Catholic, but were non-practicing by early adulthood. Himmler was openly neopagan as an adult. I think Goebbels mostly worshipped Hitler. Goering was raised Lutheran.

The man who tried to kill Hitler, Claus von Stauffenberg, was a Catholic. There is evidence that he was working both with British intelligence and with the Vatican.

15 posted on 10/15/2020 8:07:51 AM PDT by Campion (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?)
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To: Campion

I didn’t suggest Nazis were practicing Christians in any form. As I noted, they believed Jesus was an ordinary mortal. Some Nazis had a Catholic background, some Protestant. There was what I call a “cultural Christianity” in Germany, but that didn’t have anything in it to withstand/resist the Nazis.


16 posted on 10/15/2020 8:28:50 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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