Was Hitler a Christian?

[abaris]

No, you're absolutely right, Hitler is overrated. But I guess the fertile ground in which his ideas grew is less palpable, and a guy like that lends himself to easy identification. And isn't it also more comfortable and reassuring to blame one evil poster child in lieu of accepting that it was just ordinary people like you and me who fell for this ideology...

Even my father fell for it. He was the last one to have reason to do so, since he was among the ones being persecuted and had to emmigrate. But he always told me, how impressed he was by Hitler's entrance to Vienna, which he watched from the top of an advertising column. He always kept telling me how easy it is to fall for appearances alone. He was 15 back then.

Truth is, the soil was fertile. And it's fertile again. Otherwise, primitive ideologists like Trump in the USA or the rightwing figures in Europe wouldn't be such a success. And there's another part of history repeating itself. When the economy goes down the shitter and people fear for their mere existence, it's easy to present scapegoats instead of policy. The only thing being different is America starting to fall for it too. That wasn't the case back then.