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absolutely indifferent in matters of religion. It doesn't prevent them
from going to their death with serenity in their souls. 104

As we have seen, the only notion Hitler considered necessary, on a
spiritual level, was the understanding which leads people to "go to their death
with serenity in their souls." This ideal was found in such pagan concepts as
"the German soul," and "martial honor." He looked on divine religions, on the
other hand, as beliefs that need to be "destroyed with dynamite."
Hitler summed up his views on religion to his staff at a meeting at his
house in Oberzalsberg:
You see it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't
we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the
Fatherland as the highest good? 105

This was Hitler's true opinion of religion. If religion had commanded
war, as with that of the Japanese, then it could be accepted in order to be used
for his own ends. But Christianity taught peace, not war, and personal sacrifice
instead of selfishness and rivalry. For this reason, the Nazi Party waged a
continuous war against the Catholic Church.
But it also tried to establish a "Christianity appropriate to Nazism."

SS Chief Himmler making a speech in a cathedral. This and other contrived
"religious spectacles" were part of the effort by the Nazis, actual enemies of
religion, to exploit it for their own political agendas.