The Leibstandarte Lichterfeld Barracks had a Catholic chapel where religious services were conducted.

"May therefore God give us the strength to continue to do our duty and with this prayer we bow in homage before our dead heroes, before those whom they have left behind in bereavement, and before all the other victims of this war."

— Hitler radio address, 15 March 1942

"If there is a God, then he gives us not only life but also consciousness and awareness. If I live my life according to my God-given insights, then I cannot go wrong, and even if I do, I know I have acted in good faith. I may not be a light of the church, a pulpiteer, but deep down I am a pious man, and believe that whoever fights bravely in defense of a natural law framed by God and never capitulates will never be deserted by the lawgiver, but will, in the end, receive the blessings of Providence."


— Hitler, July 5, 1944 speech

"But he who dares to use the word "God" for such devilish activity blasphemes against Providence and, according to our belief, he cannot end except in destruction."

— Hitler speech before the Reichstag about Jews and international "warmongers," 4 May 1941

The Path to Obedience

Service to the Church and the Teutonic Order

“At the beginning of this millennium, in accordance with the church’s command, almost all not first born sons of the best German clans entered the service of the church as priests and church officials. Many took up the cross and went on the crusades of German blood far eastward into the desert sand. Some of these crusading knights were organized in various knightly orders as knight-priests. They brought with them German courage, German leadership and German incorruptibility. They learned obedience, subordination and state authority - itself even older than the church - in the order of the Roman Catholic Church.”

— Heinrich Himmler in ‘The SS as an anti-Bolshevik Fighting Organization’

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“In this obeying unalterable laws are included the sacred belief of our ancestors, that everything on this earth was created by God and inspired by God. Only foolish, malicious and stupid people created this pagan fable, the horror stories, that our ancestors worshipped gods and trees. No, they were convinced in God’s ancient knowledge and ancient teachings of His Divine Order of this world, wherein we were created in His image and where the plant and the animal world co-exist.”

— Heinrich Himmler in ‘The SS as an anti-Bolshevik Fighting Organization’

The ideology Himmler reflects in this statement must have come from the Christian Bible.

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"We refuse to allow ourselves to be slandered as atheists - through misuse of the term pagan - simply because we as a community do not embrace a particular denomination or dogma or demand this from any of our men. We allow ourselves the right and the freedom to draw a sharp and distinct line between religious/church/ denominational activity and political/world-view soldiery, and we will fiercely combat any violation. Likewise we teach our men - despite much justified outrage and many bad experiences that our folk has had in this area in the past - to respect everything that is holy to any folk comrade - due to his education and conviction - without any insult in word or deed."

— Heinrich Himmler in ‘The SS as an anti-Bolshevik Fighting Organization’

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“In ideological training, I forbid every attack on Christ as a person, since such attacks or insults that Christ was a Jew are unworthy of us and certainly historically not true.”

— A 1937 memorandum from Heinrich Himmler marked "to all SS leaders from Standartenführer up"