[xJones]

Hitler was born and raised in a Catholic-in-name-only family. His father was his mother's half-uncle, if you can figure that inbreeding out. Hitler had no religious faith, except a mystical one in his own destiny. He wasn't a Catholic, he just grew up in a Catholic area, and he certainly never attended a Mass in all his adulthood. Any exposure he had to the Catholic Church couldn't reach him.

It's curious, Stalin was 9 years older than Hitler, and his mother had him placed in an Orthodox Christian seminary. But Stalin couldn't be reached either, and was no more interested in the Orthodox Christian faith than Hitler ever was in the Catholic Christian faith.

[SAMS]

Wasn't Hitlers mother of Jewish descent? And, according to Jewish law, wouldn't that make her children Jewish?

[jboot]

Hitler had a brief flirtation with the church when his family moved to Linz. He was even an altar boy and gushed to his friends about someday entering the priesthood. However, he quickly lost interest when he entered his teens.

There is no evidence that he attended mass (or even merely entered a church) after his childhood. By the time he entered power he retained no vestige of Christianity. The eulogy that he gave for the late president Von Hindenburg in 1933 was unabashedly pagan, filled with references to the Norse pantheon and culminating with a thunderuous peroration: "Enter, thou great warrior, into Valhalla!" The Lutheran pastors in attendance were aghast.