When I was an undergrad I took Prof. Gordon Mork's "Hitler and the Holocaust" class at Purdue. (Mixed level under grads and grad students.) I looked into the SS for my topic. I found a study on them that showed the SS officer class matched the general German population to 97%. This means the "average" SS officer was pretty much the average German, and that means he was avowedly religious.
The SS was in charge of the genocide machine, and that means religious Germans did the killing. Hitler may have been an atheist, we won't know 100% either way, but the killer, the men and women who lived within smelling distance of the crematoria were religious.
So, bible-thumpers, you own the Holocaust.
The SS was in charge of the genocide machine, and that means religious Germans did the killing. Hitler may have been an atheist, we won't know 100% either way, but the killer, the men and women who lived within smelling distance of the crematoria were religious.
So, bible-thumpers, you own the Holocaust.
