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Proof please, someone who isn't a Nazi if you can manage it. A note from Wiki reference to Los Von Rom doesn't cut it.

Here is the relevant Wiki on Hitler's religion:

\"Hitler was born to a practising Catholic mother and an anticlerical father, but after leaving home Hitler never again attended Mass or received the sacraments.[361][362][363] Speer states that Hitler made harsh pronouncements against the church to his political associates and though he never officially left it, he had no attachment to it.[364] He adds that Hitler felt that in the absence of the church the faithful would turn to mysticism, which he considered a step backwards.[364] According to Speer, Hitler believed that either Japanese religious beliefs or Islam would have been a more suitable religion for the Germans than Christianity, with its "meekness and flabbiness".[365]

Historian John S. Conway states that Hitler was fundamentally opposed to the Christian churches.[366] According to Bullock, Hitler did not believe in God, was anticlerical, and held Christian ethics in contempt because they contravened his preferred view of "survival of the fittest".[367] He favoured aspects of Protestantism that suited his own views, and adopted some elements of the Catholic Church's hierarchical organisation, liturgy, and phraseology in his politics.[368]

Hitler viewed the church as an important politically conservative influence on society,[369] and he adopted a strategic relationship with it that "suited his immediate political purposes".[366] In public, Hitler often praised Christian heritage and German Christian culture, though professing a belief in an "Aryan Jesus", one who fought against the Jews.[370] Any pro-Christian public rhetoric was at variance with his personal beliefs, which described Christianity as "absurdity"[371] and nonsense founded on lies.[372]"

While Los Von Rom may have been pro-Lutheran, there is little evidence to suggest that Hitler was. He did however attend the Catholic church in his youth,and received the sacraments. Haven't we heard 'Once Catholic, always Catholic' around here by some. He was anti-christian in any case so the tar brush fails.

Adolf Hitler's religious views are a difficult case. On the one hand he had been in contact with Lanz von Liebenfels; on the other hand he made definite remarks against the völkisch occultism in Mein Kampf and in public speeches.

Since 1957, when the Austrian psychologist Wilfried Daim published the important study on Lanz von Liebenfels,[29] enough evidence exists to say that Hitler had been exposed to the Ariosophic Weltanschauung in Vienna. However, it is not clear to what extent he was influenced by it. In the research into this question, Mein Kampf has even been compared to Liebenfels' Theozoologie in detail.[30] According to an online article from the Simon Wiesenthal Center,[31] the influence of the anti-Judaic, Gnostic and root race teachings of H.P. Blavatsky, the founder of Theosophy, and the adaptations of her ideas by her followers, constituted a popularly unacknowledged but decisive influence over Hitler's developing mind.

Hitler harshly rejected the völkisch esotericism. In Heinrich Heims' Adolf Hitler, Monologe im FHQ 1941-1944 (several editions, here Orbis Verlag, 2000), Hitler is quoted as having said on 14 October 1941: "It seems to be inexpressibly stupid to allow a revival of the cult of Odin/Wotan. Our old mythology of the gods was defunct, and incapable of revival, when Christianity came...the whole world of antiquity either followed philosophical systems on the one hand, or worshipped the gods. But in modern times it is undesirable that all humanity should make such a fool of itself."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_aspects_of_Nazism

Seems to me the Nazis, especially Hitler, were secular humanists of the first order. As were the pagan kings and emperors before them.

If you sincerely wanted to look at the distance between Hitler and the Church, perhaps you could ask one of the 2500+ Catholic clergy that he had sent to Dachau.

Or you could look at the evidence in Hitler's own speeches

“I do insist on the certainty that sooner or later—once we hold power—Christianity will be overcome and the German church, without a Pope and without the Bible, and Luther, if he could be with us, would give us his blessing

Adolf Hitler, The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939, Vol. 1 of 2, edit. by Norman H. Baynes (New York: Oxford University Press, 1942), 369