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Historians and theologians generally agree that the objective of the Nazi policy towards religion was to remove explicitly Jewish content from the Bible (i.e., the Old Testament, the Gospel of Matthew, and the Pauline Epistles), transforming the Christian faith into a new religion, completely cleansed from any Jewish element and conciliate it ...
Christianity remained the dominant religion in Germany through the Nazi period, and its influence over Germans displeased the Nazi hierarchy. Evans wrote that Hitler believed that in the long run Nazism and religion would not be able to coexist, and stressed repeatedly that it was a secular ideology, founded on modern science.
The deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race was given a name, “ genocide,” by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish-born jurist who served as an adviser to the U.S. Department of War during World War II.
Nazi position on religion has to be understood principally as anti-Jewish. The paper proposes a redefinition of the terms of debate to "ethnotheism" or religion defined by race, and the perceived moral or spiritual characteristics that the Nazis. believed to be inherent in race. how "ordinary people" responded to life under the National Socialists.
As the majority religion, the Nazis approached the complex ‘problem’ of Christianity differently. Whilst the Nazis believed that Christianity and Nazism were ideologically incompatible, they were not initially openly hostile to the Protestant and Catholic Churches.
Nazism refers to the political ideology led by Adolf Hitler in Germany from 1933 to 1945, characterized by extreme nationalism, authoritarianism, and anti-Semitism. It challenged the individualism and liberal commercialism of Western capitalist democracies, imposing central controls and developing highly regulated capitalist enterprises.
Ultimately, there was no such thing as an official “Nazi religion.” To the contrary, the regime explored, embraced, and exploited diverse elements of (Germanic) Christianity, Ario-Germanic paganism, and Indo-Aryan religions endemic to the völkisch movement and broader supernatural imaginary of the Wilhelmine and Weimar period.
