“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

“At last through Adolf Hitler I have found my Lord again. Before that, I no longer had a God. Today I believe in a personal God who is near to me .... There is nobody more religious and God-fearing than Adolf Hitler. We believe that the Lord sent us our Führer so that we might flee from hypocrites and Pharisees.”

— Robert Ley, head of the German Labour Front, Gauleiter, and Reichsleiter

Institute of Religious Studies and the Institute for the Study and Elimination of Jewish Influence on German Religious Life

The Institute for Religious Studies was founded by Protestant pastor Walter Brachmann in 1937 as a part of the Advanced School of the NSDAP. The fact that it was headed by a Protestant pastor should remove any suspicion that it was anti-Christian. Furthermore, the Institute for the Study and Elimination of Jewish Influence on German Religious Life was also staffed by Christians and their research was dedicated to the goal of removing liberalism and Jewish influence from modern Christianity and they produced Christian religious material to send to soldiers at the front. The institute received the proper amount of paper and resources from the government throughout their existence even during the wartime paper shortage, which suggests that there was no "master plan" by the NSDAP to eradicate Christianity, as suggested by the Allies at the Nuremberg Trials.

“Gottgläubig” did not mean non-Christian

“Our Waffen SS unit did not have a Pfarrer (chaplain). But we did have some Roman Catholics who got passes and were encouraged to go to mass in a nearby town, or with a Wehrmacht unit stationed near town. All of us were considered "Gottesglaubich" (believers in God), although it did not specify what denomination, unless Lutheran, or as in my case "Apostolisch" as marked in the soldbuch. We had a lot of Limburgers and other southern nederlanders who were Catholic.”

— Michael Dorosh, Waffen-SS veteran via the Axis History Forum

“Also, there were, as far as I remember, chaplins in the Waffen SS. Many Waffen-SS men were highly religious.“

— German veteran via the Axis History Forum

https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=8839

"My unit was quartered at Salzbergen and I was staying at the vicarage. It was there on the 1st of May that I got to know the well-known Bishop Graf von Galen, who would plead for my life a few years later and would draw my judges’ attention to the principles of Christian-based justice. Graf von Galen insisted upon giving my company his blessing."

"What an irony of fate—my enemies had become my friends! I thought about God the most that night. We communed with one another, and I awaited the bright morning with renewed strength. Death was not without its importance. On the contrary, the flame of life burned very brightly and the knowledge that my hours were numbered was not easy to bear. However, there was no abyss to be crossed. I was living in the presence of the Creator with the knowledge that death was part of His creation. I prayed during the long night for the strength to meet death as a man."

— Excerpts from Waffen-SS Major General Kurt Meyer's memoirs

Link to the memoirs

Addressing "Voice of our Ancestors"

To this day, many claim that the anti-Christian book "The voice of our Ancestors" was written by Himmler, but this is not true. There is not one piece of evidence that Himmler wrote this book. The actual author of this book was Frithjof Fischer he published this Book in 1933 under the name "Wulf Sörensen". In the Political Assessment of Frithjof Fischer-Sörensen, of the Security Service of the Reichsführer-SS, dated June 21, 1940, it is stated that after writing "The Voice of the Ancestors" the author "deviated from the racial positions of National Socialism." Between October 1936 and July 1937 he was taken into protective custody by the Secret State Police. During his imprisonment, he was expelled from the Nordland publishing house on the orders of Himmler himself.

Gottfried Feder - Collective Writings

A collection of writings by Gottfried Feder. The person who brought Adolf Hitler into the DAP and was heavily responsible for Germany's economic recovery as soon as the NSDAP came to power. He was also the author of the 25 Point Program of the NSDAP which was the platform that the party used to come to power.

The last words of a Christian Japanese Kamakazi Pilot who sacrificed his life for Japan while fighting the Americans in the second World War

"When I was baptized, I was told that "I died." Before dying by American bullets, I was told to martyr myself by the hands of the enemies of my savior.

Everything is in God's hands! For us who are under God, life and death in this world do not become a concern. It seems that our end is near. I have feared this moment so much... and now it has been decided for us. I have had a happy existence, so I will die dreaming with hope.

How lucky I am to believe in God! It reassures me that He will not allow my mother to be sad."

— Ichizo Hayashi, Last Letters of
Kamizake Pilots