RE: Was Hitler a Christian?
April 12, 2016 at 5:46 pm
(This post was last modified: April 12, 2016 at 5:47 pm by abaris.)
(April 12, 2016 at 4:47 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: Most scholars agree that Hitler came to reject the Christianity of his upbringing, partially because his father was a secularist.
No, they don't. It's still a big we don't know if and what he believed. Truth is, we don't even know where his antisemitism really came from and when it began to be an obsession. In Vienna he collaborated with a jew selling the postcards he painted and he socialised with jews when staying at the men's asylum.
All we do know is that he was influenced by the figures I named before - by his own admission. Later on, after the first war, he was heavily influenced by Dietrich Eckart. These are known facts, as well as him being influenced by the Wagner clan, who also was antisemitic. Ironically, Richard Wagner's son, Siegfried, was gay.
We have to very careful when it comes to the accounts of August Kubizek, who was a close friend of Hitler in Vienna, or Albert Speer in his memories. Both tried to be seen in a positive light. Speer more than Kubizek, since Kubizek only indirectly profited from Hitler and never held any official position.
We can only go what he said in his speeches, what he wrote in Mein Kampf and what he said at his table conversation at his headquarters, recorded by the aforementioned Henri Picker.