Adolf Hitler

[Mortimer]

Was A.H. Christian?
Why he persecuted Roma Gypsies?

[finþaų]

Hitler shunned Christianity for all I know. He persecuted the Gypsies because they were and had long been a problematic entity.

[Mortimer]

Hitler shunned Christianity for all I know. He persecuted the Gypsies because they were and had long been a problematic entity.

not because of their race?

[finþaų]

not because of their race?

I think there are many components. The Gypsies were genetically and appearence-wise (very) different from the natives, they were an extremely problematic and crime-prone folk (as a group) and they were present in notable figures in European territories.

[sturmwalkure]

Inquiring Mind, Hitler was a Christian.. to a degree.

Source, Leon Degrelle

Transcendent Faith

Did Hitler believe in God? He believed deeply in God. He called God the Almighty, master of all that is known and unknown.

Propagandists portrayed Hitler as an atheist. He was not. He had contempt for hypocritical and materialistic clerics, but he was not alone in that. He believed in the necessity of standards and theological dogmas, without which, he repeatedly said, the great institution of the Christian church would collapse. These dogmas clashed with his intelligence, but he also recognized that it was hard for the human mind to encompass all the problems of creation, its limitless scope and breathtaking beauty. He acknowledged that every human being has spiritual needs.

The song of the nightingale, the pattern and color of a flower, continually brought him back to the great problems of creation. No one in the world has spoken to me so eloquently about the existence of God. He held this view not because he was brought up as a Christian, but because his analytical mind bound him to the concept of God. Hitler's faith transcended formulas and contingencies. God was for him the basis of everything, the ordainer of all things, of his destiny and that of all others.

[Mortimer]

I think there are many components. The Gypsies were genetically and appearence-wise (very) different from the natives, they were an extremely problematic and crime-prone folk (as a group) and they were present in notable figures in European territories.

a "foreign" element in europe, yes.

[ficuscarica]

Hitler was no Christian, at least in the real sense of the word. Christian derives from Christ, a Christian therefore is a follower of Christ. Hitler, obviously, was exactly the opposite, as his deeds were directly opposed to the teaching and example of Jesus Christ.

Just because he is said to have believed in some kind of theism, he still is light years away from the basics concepts of Christian theology as it is funded by the teachings of Jesus.

[Leliana]

Adolf Hitler was raised in a deeply Catholic environment to deeply Catholic parents and received all Catholic sacraments. He did never actively fight Catholic Christianity and he had no good opinion about the craze of some people in the SS like Himmler with their heathen cults at the Wewelsburg and Thule projects.

I don't know if he was a practising Christ but he led no campaign against our beliefs.

Hitler and Pope Pius XII.



Hitler with Protestant bishops.

[Minesweeper]

One thing is for sure, Mein Kampf was written by, at least in the writing period, a Christian man.

[Kalitas]

Hitler was no Christian, at least in the real sense of the word. Christian derives from Christ, a Christian therefore is a follower of Christ. Hitler, obviously, was exactly the opposite, as his deeds were directly opposed to the teaching and example of Jesus Christ.

Just because he is said to have believed in some kind of theism, he still is light years away from the basics concepts of Christian theology as it is funded by the teachings of Jesus.

Sad but true. According to your definition of christianity, I´m afraid to say that all "true christians" I've met through life can be counted with the fingers of a hand. The rest are all hypocrites, from the pope to my mother.