>>22605392“We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity. Our movement is Christian.”
Source: Speech in Passau, October 27, 1928, cited in Bundesarchiv Berlin-Zehlendorf, BAZ NS 26/55, as referenced in Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919–1945 (2003), p. 60.
“The national government will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the very basis of our collective morality.”
Source: Speech to the Reichstag, March 23, 1933, in The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922–August 1939, ed. Norman H. Baynes (1942), Vol. 1, p. 369.
“My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter… Today, after two thousand years, I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross.”
Source: Speech in Munich, April 12, 1922, in The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922–August 1939, ed. Norman H. Baynes (1942), Vol. 1, p. 19–20.
“We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit… We want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess.”
Source: Speech in Nuremberg, April 1922, quoted in The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, 1922–1939, ed. Norman H. Baynes (1942), Vol. 1, p. 871–872.
