[Western Phil]

Suggest your take some time and read Hitler's "Table Talk". He clearly viewed Christianity and Judism in the same light and had for each the same goal.

I am sure that had he made his thoughts public, his universal appeal would certaily have suffered. Use of the religious symbols by the Nazis was a convenient ruse similar to Stalin's sudden "return to religion" after being attacked by Germany.

[chukcha]

Stalin never "returned to religion". He only stopped persecution of Russian Church during the war and call for everybody to defend the Motherland. The were never chaplains in the Soviet Army - they had commissars and politruks. Contrast this with Wehrmacht. They never had "Nazi ideology officer", they had chaplains - Christian and, sometimes, Muslim.

There is a big - no, huge - stretch to state that Hitler persecuted Christians, based on some book that claims to quote private conversations with Hitler. There was never such a policy in Nazi Germany.