>> Hitler was a Catholic. He never renounced it, and was never excommunicated. <<
This sounds like renouncing to me, how about you?:
"National Socialism and religion cannot exist together.... The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity's illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew. The deliberate lie in the matter of religion was introduced into the world by Christianity.... Let it not be said that Christianity brought man the life of the soul, for that evolution was in the natural order of things."
Sounds pretty atheistic, too.
As for his excommunication, that statement represents a grace misunderstanding of excommunication. 5 Billion people in the world are non-Catholics, and only a handful have ever been formally excommunicated. The prior statement is excommunication laetae sentiae (sp?): He excommunicated himself in making the statement. Personal excommunication is for when the person has made a unique separation from the church not otherwise covered by other excommunications and appears to labor under the misconception that they are remaining faithful Catholics. There is no reason to issue a formal excommunication for Adolph Hitler.
How bad is the MSM's lying about the Church's tolerance of Hitler? When I was in Boston (1999), the Boston Globe published on the fromt page an article declaring that the Catholic Church had never condemned Fascism. On the back page was a feature, "60 Years Ago Today in The Boston Globe," showing the 1939 Boston Globe. And the main story, screaming across the top of that newspaper? "Pope Condemns Twin Horrors of Communism, Fascism." The two stories appeared on the very same physical sheet of paper!