American Thinker: The Nazis and Christianity

Christianity had declined severely in Germany at the time the Nazis came to power, which is why the Nazis were able to come to power. 

Many atheists presume that the Nazis were a weird variation of Christianity. I use come from very old books, rather than Wikipedia.  I own these books and the books were written during the very years in which Nazism came to power.  The authors of these books came from a wide variety of perspectives -- Christian, Jewish, atheist, Marxist and the like.  All of the material in this article is replicated in which also has much more specifically researched and footnoted sources for each position.

Christianity had declined severely in Germany at the time the Nazis came to power, which is why the Nazis were able to come to power.  In his book, The Dictators, Richard Overy states that in the decades preceding the First World War Germany was becoming increasingly secular, and that after that war, from 1918 to 1931, 2.4 million Evangelical Christians formally renounced their faith as well as almost half a million Catholics.  In Prussia, only 21% of the population took communion and in Hamburg only five percent of the population took communion.  Before Hitler, German religious leaders were publicly condemning the rise of moral relativism and decline of traditional religious values.