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This video is a response to a comment by tamething1 on another video in this series, who falsely
claims that Hitler was an atheist.
There is no disputing the historical fact that Hitler was a christian. This has been
documented by mountains of evidence. Hitler's own writings are saturated with religious
and specifically christian language and imagery.
For example, "I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator. By warding
off the Jews I am fighting for the Lord's work."
Another example: "I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so."
You can find many other examples by following the links in the description of this video.
Furthermore, Hitler remained on good terms with both the Vatican and the German churches
throughout World War 2. The German churches held special services every year on Hitler's
birthday. The S.S. wore belt buckles with the slogan "God with us", and crosses featured
prominently at Nazi rallies.
Hitler constantly railed against atheism as a Jewish invention, and he had atheist groups
forcibly broken up and their leaders arrested and imprisoned. He also prohibited the teaching
of evolution and added "The Origin of Species" to a list of books to be burned by the Nazis.
Hitler sometimes criticized the German churches because he had failed to gain control of them
and unite them under his rule. However, it is undeniable that he identified himself as
a christian, and saw religion as an indispensable component of his racial agenda.
Christians like tamething1 dishonestly ignore the vast amount of facts attesting to Hitler's
christianity, and instead focus on the one and only source that conforms to their prejudices.
"Hitler's Table Talk" was a book of sayings by Hitler recorded by Martin Bormann. After
the war, the book was translated into French by François Genoud, a Nazi sympathizer and
bankroller.
Many scholars today regard Genoud's translation as sloppy, inaccurate and even fraudulent.
It contains numerous anti-christian quotes that are nowhere to be found in the original
German text. It also omits large numbers of pro-christian quotes.
Later on, Genoud's text was translated from French to English by the British historian
Hugh Trevor-Roper. This translation introduced further inaccuracies.
Today, you can find many christian websites that give long lists of quotes attributed
to Hitler, supposedly showing that he was an atheist. All of these quotes come from
this single source, a text which is several layers removed from anything Hitler actually
said, and which no reputable historian recommends for use as source material. What does this
tell you about the intellectual honesty of christians who claim Hitler was an atheist?
Of course, even if Hitler had been an atheist, it would be irrelevant to the morality of
atheism, let alone the question of God's existence. You might as well say that Hitler, Stalin
and Saddam Hussein all had mustaches, therefore, anyone with a mustache is evil.
Besides, atheism is simply the lack of belief in a god or gods. It doesn't tell you to round
up millions of people and put them in death camps. It doesn't tell you to do anything!
But it's a moot point, because it is an overwhelmingly well-documented fact that Hitler was a christian,
and his anti-semitism can be traced to a long tradition in German christianity, most notoriously
the essay "On the Jews and their lies" by Martin Luther.
Hitler was not an atheist. He was a christian. Deal with it.