"Without a doubt the chancellor lives in faith in God. He recognizes Christianity as the foundation of Western culture."

— Cardinal Faulhaber of Munich after visiting Hitler at his mountain retreat in Obersalzburg

"The belief of the Reichsführer-SS [Heinrich Himmler] and the Führer was that the Christian religion came from Europeans, by Europeans, and to Europeans, no one else. That is because the limited excavations the Ahnenerbe [ancestral heritage organization under the SS] and independent researches could do in the Middle East showed something. They showed that the ancient peoples who lived several thousand years ago in the regions we today call the Middle East, were populated by fair skinned and eyed people who migrated up into Europe from these areas. I know the Bible says there was dispersion due to war and conquests."

— Marie Adelheid, staff member of Richard Walther Darré

"The famous para graph 24 of the party programme advocating a "positive Christianity" without com mitment to a particular confession was an insurmountable obstacle for everybody in contradiction to the established churches. Whatever meaning might be attached to the idea of a positive Christianity, it could in no way constitute a part of Pagan ism that defined itself by its antagonism towards Christianity and the Christian churches. For that reason alone, Pagans such as Jakob Wilhelm Hauer were de terred from joining the NSDAP, viz a party advocating positive Christian values"

— Nordic Ideology in the SS and the SS Ahnenerbe, Horst Junginger

"I had a Catholic education and every Sunday I went to church. They preached about the godless Communism in Russia and it was time for a crusade against the godless Communism."

— Dutch Waffen-SS "Wiking" veteran on why he fought for the Germans

https://archive.org/details/interview-with-dutch-waffen-ss-veteran

anti-Clerical, not anti-Christian

"Perhaps the most surprising instance of a continued positive attitude towards Christianity was Julius Streicher, the editor of the scurrilous Nazi organ Der Stürmer. Even as he acquired a reputation as a rabid anticlerical, Streicher continued to affirm - as he had done in the Kampfzeit - that he was not an enemy of Christianity. In a 1937 edition of the Stürmer, Streicher praised Christianity, even to the extent of attacking the party's own anti-Christians: "Some people in Germany today reject Christianity as something 'alien'; others, because Christ was a Jew, and German people can learn nothing from a Jew. A third party sees a very special divine miracle in his being a Jew... But the Stürmer will now explain the matter in a way which will finally open the eyes of all men." As Streicher argued, Jesus was in fact not a Jew. The Nordic peoples had accepted Christianity; therefore Christ's teaching was in accordance with Nordic blood, not Jewish"


— The Holy Reich, pg. 217

“The saying holds true: “Whom God gives an office, he also gives reason". When he has achieved what he wants, he assumes a shiny exterior. The man gifted with leadership quality, however, prays to God for the strength to fulfill his duty well and loyally - and to remain modest!”

— The Official SS Leadership Guide

“The final responsibility of a noble person can only be determined by his own conscience. In his honesty and loyalty he finds the command of his duty, whose field is also greater than his strength. He quickly sees the area where no one else can prescribe anything. If matters of our duty revolve around our conscience, then the will to perform them, and the inner calm and sureness of being able to perform them, are carried and supported by our bearing toward
the fatherland, toward the eternal, toward God.”

— The Official SS Leadership Guide

“The characteristics that make a National Socialist must basically have been planted by God in your breast at birth.“

— The Official SS Leadership Guide

"The clergyman cannot teach religion - at most a confession. There is a difference between a churchly and a true Christian."

— Julius Streicher

"Further action was taken against the German Faith Movement when it was noticed that their newspaper Reichswart, which had had its ban lifted, described itself as a “National Socialist weekly." Hanns Kerrl, who as Reich Church Minister was responsible for all religious bodies in Germany, declared this to be a false association of the NSDAP with the German Faith Movement, and upon obtaining the backing of Hess and Goebbels, ordered the paper to drop this designation. "

Source: The Holy Reich, pg. 258

"In spite of repeated warnings, Hauer continued to argue that the German Faith Movement’s (pagan) religion fit that of National Socialism more than any other. For this reason, state authorities finally forced Hauer to resign his leadership of the German Faith Movement in April 1936. When (Reinhard) Heydrich notified him of this decision, direct reference was made to Hauer's repeated attempts to inject his movement into National Socialism."

Source: The Holy Reich, pg. 259

"Neither the Reformation nor the Counter-Reformation fully conquered all of Germany, nor did either create a Christian state religion. The National Socialist program commits itself to positive Christianity. However, the German Volk, split into two religions, cannot express one confession to Christian dogma, but only to practical Christianity. The two confessions can find each other in Christian ethics, whereas in dogma the Volk breaks in two."

— Bernhard Rust

"Far from attempting to destroy Protestantism from within, the party leadership hoped to bridge the many gaps that existed between the German Christians and their theological opponents, the Confessing Church, and end the 'Church Struggle.'"

Source: The Holy Reich, pg. 29

“A Catholic compendium published in 1943 noticed with great satisfaction that among the now 96 million inhabitants of Germany 48 million were Catholics and only 45 million Protestants. Adding Alsace-Lorraine, Luxembourg and the "Generalgouvernement" with alone 9 million Catholics to the balance, the altercation would have been even more perceivable. The Catholic statisticians expected the total size of all Christians to reach 105 million people in the near future, among them 59 million Catholics and 46 million Protestants, which meant that Catholics then would have succeeded to outnumber Protestants. Speaking of the Christian share in Germany or Greater Germany respectively, involves numbers at the level of 75 million prior and 100 million during World War II. Pagans, on the other hand, barely exceeded a few thousands with an unambiguous tendency towards declining. With them, evidently, waging war would have been impossible.”

— Nordic Ideology in the SS and the SS Ahnenerbe, Horst Junginger

"None of the doctrines expounded in these new (Pagan) religions are at all promising. Some are simply echoes of Christianity, others and to a greater extent, are reminders of the philosophy of the rationalists with their glorification of humanity and reason, or of Nietzsche’s naturalism with his deification of those who are in communion with Nature and are critical of culture. Sometimes too, there is a revival of Indian ideas of self-redemption. All these beliefs however, are but pale wraiths lacking the force, the depth and the richness originally peculiar to those thoughts and systems. Neither is surrender to what is supernatural and superhuman the predominant feature of the new cults, rather do we find a glorification of Nature and of man in particular, who is held to be sufficient unto himself and capable of attaining perfection by himself."

— Cajus Fabricius, theologian and member of the SA, in Positive Christianity in the Third Reich