(October 21, 2015 at 9:47 am)Perkalov Wrote: Sure, I agree without even checking the other thread.
Its the reason to why Nazi ideology worked so well. My point was that the ideology in it self is mainly secular (particularly in its argumentation), even if it flirts with the Christian anti-Semitism. So why bother with whether individual Nazis was religious.
Especially Hitler flirted with a lot of religious themes in his speeches and writings. The reason for this being that 95 percent of Germans still identified with christianity at the time and it was to appeal to these sentiments. He also used the churches to cement his rule with various treaties and concessions.
As I always keep saying, it's very complicated and facetted. Nazism wasn't a christian movement, but it wasn't an atheistic one either.