Adolf Hitler was a Catholic Christian. What many people fail to realize is the Christian history of anti-semitism and persecution of Jews. So, they think Hitler is unusual, and therefore not a Christian as they have understood what being a Christian is.

But the facts remain, Hitler`s antisemitismn and persecution of Jews has a long and bloody history in Christian Europe. He was not any new phenomenon. Also Hitler had the support of all the churches, protestant and Catholic. What post-war Church propaganda has been to single out a handful of anti-Nazi ministers and pretend their actions were those of the mainstream churches. This is false. A few individuals stood against Hitler and were persecuted. The Churches were all saluting Hitler.


"Since the fourth century after Christ there have been three anti-Jewish policies: [forced] conversion, expulsion, annihilation. The second appeared as an alternative to the first, and the third emerged as an alternative to the second...The missionaries of Christianity has said in effect: You have no right to live amongst us as Jews. The secular rulers who followed proclaimed: You have no right to live amongst us. The Nazis at last decreed: You have no right to live.

The process began with the attempt to drive the Jews into Christianity. The development was continued in order to force the victims into exile. It was finished when the Jews were driven to their deaths. The German Nazis, then, did not discard the past; they built upon it. They did not begin a development; they completed it."
---Raul Hillberg, "The Destruction of the European Jews"

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