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The consensus scholarly view seems to be that Hitler had a disdain for traditional Christianity. He had his own theology that incorporated some Christian elements, but it would be an abuse of language to call it Christian since he seemed to deny most of the central doctrines.

You're playing the 'No True Scotsman' game. Hitler may have been an unorthodox Christian - he thought Jesus was an Aryan and Paul had corrupted the whole enterprise, and he was skeptical about transsubstantiation and the resurrection of the body - but not of the spirit - but he fell well within the very wide range that we normally allot to Christian belief.

But I'm not going to engage in a quote mining competition with you. I'm working on a translation of the entire chapter in the Picker version that deals with religion. We can then consider it in toto.

Hitler may have been an unorthodox Christian - he thought Jesus was an Aryan and Paul had corrupted the whole enterprise, and he was skeptical about transsubstantiation and the resurrection of the body - but not of the spirit - but he fell well within the very wide range that we normally allot to Christian belief.

Well, I think you're alloting a wider range to Christian belief than do most, but that's semanics. On substance, we seem to agree.

My only request is that next time you pull a gotchya on a creationist about Hitler's religion, include the above caveats.

Let me know when you are finished with the translation. I'll be interested in taking a look.

Oh, BTW, I went back and look at my Speer book (which I originally read back in college), and I noticed that he was only sentenced to 20 years! I don't know where I got the idea that he served a life sentence. Amazing that someone like that would only get 20 years.