Shirer p 238:

"When, in May 1936, it (Niemoeller's group) addressed a courteous but firm memorandum to Hitler protesting against the anti-Christian tendencies of the regime, denouncing the government's anti-Semitism, and demanding an end of State interference in the churches, Frick, the Nazi Minister of the Interior, responded with ruthless action. Hundreds of "Confessional Church' pastors were arrested, one of the signers of the memorandum, Dr Weissler, was murdered in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, the funds of the "Confessional Church' were confiscated, and it was forbidden to make collections."

Hans Kerrl, Hitler's pick for Minister for Church Affairs. spelled it out:

Shirer p 239:

"The Party (Kerrl said) stands on the basis of Positive Christianity, and Positive Christianity IS National Socialism...Dr. Zoellner and Count Galen (the Catholic bishop of Muenster) have tried to make clear to me that Christianity consists in faith in Christ as the Son of God...That makes me laugh....No, Christianity is not dependent upon the Apostle's Creed....True Christianity is represented by the party, and the German people are now called by the party and especially by the Fuehrer to a real Christianity...The Fuehrer is the herald of a new revelation."


On the first of July, 1937, Dr Niemoeller was arrested and confined to Moabit prison in Berlin.


Some 807 other pastors and leading laymen of the "Confessional Church" were arrested in 1937, and hundreds more in the next couple of years.







So in contrast to the drivel cited by our illustrious Mudcat atheists to assert that Hitler and the 3rd Reich were not aggressively atheistic, the words of Nazi spokesmen against religion were followed up by vicious and continuing persecution of anyone who did not accept "Positive Christianity" AKA Nazism. Which, as I have detailed, also included substituting Hitler for God.

Just as other atheistic states substituted and substitute the leader for God.