Nearly all the members of the nazi party were raised as catholic,did this factor in their brutality?
I find it unlikely that the presence of the Catholic Church had much to do with Nazi cruelty. The psychology of the Nazi’s was much more complex, involving things like wounded national pride and economic desperation. There are a lot of people who will promote various myths about the Nazi’s in order to discredit some philosophy. You will hear people claiming things like Atheism or Catholicism were the official “religion” of the Nazi Party. In reality historians have conflicting documentation, some even claim that Hitler converted to Protestantism, but there is nothing official. What is preserved on film and paper from Nazi Germany seems to be an odd mixture of Christianity (both Catholic and Protestant) and reinterpreted Nordic and Germanic myths. There does appear to be an odd mixture of religion and politics with Nazism that we don’t really see any where else.
