“For Catholics—the other sub-culture which Nazism found greatest difficulty in penetrating, before and after 1933—Hitler was above all seen as the head of a ‘godless’, anti-Christian movement.”

— Ian Kershaw

Source: Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris (1999), p. 412

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