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Originally Posted by blankall
To be fair Nazism was not especially religious. The Nazis saw religion as a part of traditional German culture, but they also aggressively attacked many Christian intuitions in favor of their own political agendas. The Nazis tried to establish their own church and some think their ultimate Gish may have been replacing Christianity with a nationalist church based on pre Christian occultism.
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They had a fairly well-known alliance with the Vatican, though. And their scapegoating of Jews basically just stood on the shoulders of thousands of years of anti-semitic church teaching and tribal religious attitudes. Nazism leaned on religion pretty heavily, let's not kid ourselves.