Every once in a while, you will hear people talking about Hitler as if he were a Christian. He certainly grew up as a Catholic, but he became rabidly anti-Christian as a young man. Hitler was a disciple, intellectually, of the philosopher Nietzsche, a rabid anti-Christian.
        Hitler said: "The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity's illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew." Himmler, the ruthless head of the Gestapo, said, "We shall not rest until we have rooted out Christianity."
        William Shirer, a journalist who covered the Nazi regime and wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, said: "the Nazi regime intended eventually to destroy Christianity in Germany, if it could, and substitute the old paganism of the early Germanic gods and the new paganism of the Nazi extremists."   So in the German churches, the Bible at the altar was replaced with Mein Kampf and the crosses atop steeples were replaced by the swastika.  Hitler himself said, he and the Nazi Party were fighting against "the God of the deserts, that crazed, stupid, vengeful Asiatic despot with his powers to make laws!...That poison with which both Jews and Christians have spoiled and soiled the free, wonderful instincts of man and lowered them to the level of doglike fright."
        Bertrand Russell was no friend of Christianity. He lived during World War II, and he fully recognized how Hitler was anti-Christian. He said in his book, Why I Am Not a Christian: "Nazis and Communists dismissed Christianity and did things which we deplore. It is easy to conclude that the repudiation of Christianity by Hitler and the Soviet Government is at least in part the cause of our troubles and that if the world returned to Christianity, our international problems would be solved."  He obviously does not agree. Regardless, contrary to what some liberals say today, what the Nazis did was the antithesis of Christian belief and action in play.