How Catholic was Hitler?

[Thumpalumpacus]

Here is all Im saying.

I don't think Hitler's Catholicism was that important to him.

I think this mainly because he seemed disinterested in the faith itself and made little effort to try to convert people to the One true faith.

I concede that Pius XII and the German Hierarchy did little to oppose the Nuremberg laws and speak out on mistreatment of Jews.

Yet even at it's worst the Catholic Church has never approved of racial supremacy or any notion of making a mere mortal into a deity like figure.

While Pius XII wasn't exactly the Jews best friend, I don't think Hitler saw him as his own friend either.

I am uncertain exactly what Hitler's thoughts on the matter is (it is different things to different people) but many high ranking Nazis (Bormann, Goebbels,Rosenburg among others) saw the Church in much the same way as many see it. An archaic, backward institution that had somewhat retarded the growth and development of the Germanic race. All the Nazis were already suspicious of a powerful transnational entity that they could not control and which owed no allegiance to them.

Observe these horrid pics from Der Sturmer

1. http://research.calvin.edu/german-propag...er/ds4.jpg

This is a cartoon criticizing German women who felt God's call. "She belongs to Church, she belongs to the devil, both are lost to the German race!"

2. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9CwLw9kpS5E/SO...lismus.jpg

This one appears to state that Pacelli was offering support to the Jews (the large nosed, chubby Jewess appears to represent Jewry.)

3. https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ImqvJjFozjg/V...6010_n.jpg

This disgusting Nazi slander appears to lump in political Catholicism with the forces of Jewry and Bolshevism!

The fact that your church couldn't even be bothered to excommunicate him says all I need to hear. If they disapproved Hitler's actions they should have made that clear and dissociated themselves from him.