E pelo que li recentemente (historiador britanico Richard Overy) Hitler era ateu. Muitos dos membros altos do partido tambem o eram.
Podes apresentar uma citação e a sua fonte da declaração feita? Procurei por algo do género no Google, mas não tive qualquer resulatado (mas pude ver pela Wikipedia que o historiador é especialista no assunto).
Suponho que Hitler acreditava (ou fazia; crer que acreditava) em Deus por citações do "Mein Kampf"…
Fiz uma pesquisa em
http://www.hitler.org/writings/Mein_Kampf/ que dá crédito à ideia de Hitler ter sido um religioso fanático (negritos acrescentados):
Volume One - A Reckoning; Chapter I: In The House Of My Parents
No, by the living God, this is very unimportant.
Volume One - A Reckoning; Chapter V: The World War
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The struggle of the year 1914 was not forced on the masses- no, by the living God-it was desired by the whole people.
Volume One - A Reckoning; Chapter X: Causes of the Collapse
The works of a Moritz von Schwind, or of a Bocklin, were also an inner experience, but of artists graced by God and not of clowns.
Volume One - A Reckoning; Chapter XI: Nation and Race
These lords were really God's punishment for their beloved peoples and find their parallels only in the various ministers of the present time.
Volume One - A Reckoning; Chapter XII: The First Period of Development of the National Socialist German Workers' Party
No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left behind can the great poet and thinker, the great statesman and the great soldier, be replaced. For their activity lies always in the province of art. It is not mechanically trained, but inborn by God's grace.
Volume Two - The National Socialist Movement; Chapter I: Philosophy and Party
To undermine the existence of human culture by exterminating its founders and custodians would be an execrable crime in the eyes of those who believe that the folk-idea lies at the basis of human existence. Whoever would dare to raise a profane hand against that highest image of God among His creatures would sin against the bountiful Creator of this marvel and would collaborate in the expulsion from Paradise.
Volume Two - The National Socialist Movement; Chapter II: The State
How devoid of ideals and how ignoble is the whole contemporary system! The fact that the churches join in committing this sin against the image of God, even though they continue to emphasize the dignity of that image, is quite in keeping with their present activities. They talk about the Spirit, but they allow man, as the embodiment of the Spirit, to degenerate to the proletarian level. Then they look on with amazement when they realize how small is the influence of the Christian Faith in their own country and how depraved and ungodly is this riff-raff which is physically degenerate and therefore morally degenerate also. To balance this state of affairs they try to convert the Hottentots and the Zulus and the Kaffirs and to bestow on them the blessings of the Church. While our European people, God be praised and thanked, are left to become the victims of moral depravity, the pious missionary goes out to Central Africa and establishes missionary stations for negroes. Finally, sound and healthy – though primitive and backward – people will be transformed, under the name of our 'higher civilization', into a motley of lazy and brutalized mongrels.
It would better accord with noble human aspirations if our two Christian denominations would cease to bother the negroes with their preaching, which the negroes neither desire nor understand. It would be better if they left this work alone, and if, in its stead, they tried to teach people in Europe, kindly and seriously, that it is much more pleasing to God if a couple that is not of healthy stock were to show loving kindness to some poor orphan and become a father and mother to him, rather than give life to a sickly child that will be a cause of suffering and unhappiness to all.
God knows we Germans have never been lacking in abundant scientific culture, but we have always had a considerable lack of will-power and the capacity for making decisions.
Volume Two - The National Socialist Movement; Chapter VI: The Struggle of the Early Period -- The Significance of the Spoken Word
If these people try to disparage the importance of the spoken word today, they do it only because they realize – God be praised and thanked – how futile all their own speechifying has been.
Volume Two - The National Socialist Movement; Chapter X: Federalism as a Mask
The two Christian denominations look on with indifference at the profanation and destruction of a noble and unique creature who was given to the world as a gift of God's grace.
Everybody who has the right kind of feeling for his country is solemnly bound, each within his own denomination, to see to it that he is not constantly talking about the Will of God merely from the lips but that in actual fact he fulfils the Will of God and does not allow God's handiwork to be debased. For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and their faculties. Whoever destroys His work wages war against God's Creation and God's Will.
Because Germany does not defend itself in any other way except by the flamboyant protests of our parliamentarian elect, there is no reason why the rest of the world should take up the fight in our defence. And God does not follow the principle of granting freedom to a nation of cowards, despite all the implications of our 'patriotic' associations.
Volume Two - The National Socialist Movement; Chapter XIII: German Alliance Policy after the War
In this regard it must be quite clearly understood that we cannot get back the territories we have lost if we depend on solemn imprecations before the throne of the Almighty God or on pious hopes in a League of Nations, but only by the force of arms.
And this action is the only one which, before God and our German posterity, would make any sacrifice of blood seem justified: before God, since we have been put on this earth with the mission of eternal struggle for our daily bread, beings who receive nothing as a gift, and who owe their position as lords of the earth only to the genius and the courage with which they can conquer and defend it; and before our German posterity in so far as we have shed no citizen's blood out of which a thousand others are not bequeathed to posterity.
Volume Two - A Reckoning; Chapter XV: The Right of Emergency Defense
If they had seriously believed in what they were doing, they would have had to recognize that the strength of a nation lies primarily, not in its weapons, but in its will, and that, before foreign enemies are conquered, the enemy within must be annihilated; otherwise God help us if victory does not reward our arms on the very first day.
Volume One - A Reckoning; Chapter II: Years of Study and Suffering in Vienna
Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.
Volume One - A Reckoning; Chapter VI: War Propaganda
Certainly we don't have to discuss these matters with the Jews, the most modern inventors of this cultural perfume. Their whole existence is an embodied protest against the aesthetics of the Lord's image.
Volume One - A Reckoning; Chapter VII: The Revolution
Once again the songs of the fatherland roared to the heavens along the endless marching columns, and for the last time the Lord's grace smiled on His ungrateful children.
Volume One - A Reckoning; Chapter XI: Nation and Race
His life is only of this world, and his spirit is inwardly as alien to true Christianity as his nature two thousand years previous was to the great founder of the new doctrine. Of course, the latter made no secret of his attitude toward the Jewish people, and when necessary he even took to the whip to drive from the temple of the Lord this adversary of all humanity, who then as always saw in religion nothing but an instrument for his business existence. In return, Christ was nailed to the cross, while our present-day party Christians debase themselves to begging for Jewish votes at elections and later try to arrange political swindles with atheistic Jewish parties-and this against their own nation.
Volume Two - The National Socialist Movement; Chapter II: The State
The State should consecrate it as an institution which is called upon to produce creatures made in the likeness of the Lord and not create monsters that are a mixture of man and ape.
Volume Two - The National Socialist Movement; Chapter X: Federalism as a Mask
And while the patriotic movement is debating with itself whether the ultramontane danger be greater than the Jewish, or vice versa, the Jew is destroying the racial basis of our existence and thereby annihilating our people. As far as regards that kind of 'patriotic' warrior, on behalf of the National Socialist Movement and therefore of the German people I pray with all my heart: "Lord, preserve us from such friends, and then we can easily deal with our enemies."
Volume Two - The National Socialist Movement; Chapter XIII: German Alliance Policy after the War
Then, from the child's story-book to the last newspaper in the country, and every theatre and cinema, every pillar where placards are posted and every free space on the hoardings should be utilized in the service of this one great mission, until the faint-hearted cry, "Lord, deliver us," which our patriotic associations send up to Heaven today would be transformed into an ardent prayer: "Almighty God, bless our arms when the hour comes. Be just, as Thou hast always been just. Judge now if we deserve our freedom. Lord, bless our struggle."
Nota: não li o "Mein Kampf" e simplesmente fiz uma pesquisa por referências a "God" e depois por "Lord"; não incluí expressões tais como "thank God", "by God", "thank Lord", "hope God", etc. (um ateu poderia dizer o mesmo como mera expressão, ou poderia ser adicionada na tradução).
Também há citações em
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/quotes_hitler.html e
http://www.nobeliefs.com/hitler.htm(edit: fiz asneira no "post", ao querer enviar um novo "post".
Felizmente tinha uma janela aberta com a página anterior e consegui recuperar a informação.)
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