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“My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter.”
Source: Mein Kampf, Vol. 1, Chapter 11 (1925), translated by Ralph Manheim, 1943.
“We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity. Our movement is Christian.”
Source: Speech in Passau, October 27, 1928, documented in Völkischer Beobachter, October 29, 1928.
“I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator. By warding off the Jews, I am fighting for the Lord’s work.”
Source: Speech to the Reichstag, January 30, 1939, recorded in Max Domarus, The Complete Hitler: His Speeches and Proclamations, 1990.
“The national Government sees in both Christian denominations the most important factor for the maintenance of our society.”
Source: Speech before the Reichstag, March 23, 1933, published in Norman H. Baynes, The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, 1942.
“We must bring Christianity to the fore again, but the fighting Christianity.”
Source: Speech in Berlin, April 6, 1923, cited in John Toland, Adolf Hitler, 1976.
“The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgement of the National Socialist state by the Catholic Church.”
Source: Letter to the Nazi Party, July 22, 1933, quoted in Ernst Christian Helmreich, The German Churches Under Hitler, 1979.
“It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life.”
Source: Speech on February 24, 1933, documented in William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 1960