He also mentioned to the Soviets that they were buddies and should take out England together. Gee, do ya think he might have displayed a trend of telling falsehoods as a mechanism to influence the thinking and behavior of others so he could acquire more power without opposition? Maybe the slaughter of many believers in the Holocaust give some indication he was somewhat antiChristian. Even the name of the Third Reich is about as antiChristian as could be conceived.
I’ve addressed this multiple times. I am not suggesting that he was ACTUALLY a practicing Christian, just that he claimed it Christian teachings supported his actions. This was in defense of the main argument proposed on the thread that Darwin was his inspiration. Darwin was NEVER referenced as inspiration by Hitler.
The First Reich, was also known as The Holy Roman Empire (a continuation of the Roman Empire in Europe), that started in the lands ruled by Charlemagne (Germany, Austria, Eslovenia, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic, eastern France, Northern Italy and western Poland), with a period beginning on the 9th century and finishing in the 19th century.
The Second Reich, also known as The German Empire, ruled by the Hohenzollern dinasty, in the areas known as Prussia and Brandenburg, from 1871 to 1919, they fell with the ending of World War I. During this Reich the “Iron Chancellor” Otto Von Bismark united Germany, and set the roots for World War I.
Then there was a period known as the Weimar Republic, from 1919 to 1933 (called sometimes the pre-3rd Reich).
The Third Reich (from 1933 to 1945), called the Nazi Germany, was under Hitler control. He called it the Third Reich because he thought that under his leadership Germany could reunite the old Holy Roman Empire, bringing Germany back to its glorious days. This Reich was terminated with the fall of Germany at the end of World War II.
He also mentioned to the Soviets that they were buddies and should take out England together. Gee, do ya think he might have displayed a trend of telling falsehoods as a mechanism to influence the thinking and behavior of others so he could acquire more power without opposition? Maybe the slaughter of many believers in the Holocaust give some indication he was somewhat antiChristian. Even the name of the Third Reich is about as antiChristian as could be conceived.An addendum to that. Nietzsche is very clear that he considers Christianity a way of propagating weakness, an impediment to the will to power. Given the Nazi's love of Nietzsche it's reasonable to assume that they believed the same as well. They were perfectly willing to use Christian symbolism when it suits them but they were not Christian in any meaningful sense.