== Beliefs ==
According to Albert Speer, Hitler never left the Catholic Church , but was hostile to its teachings. He did admire its power. Some people believe that Hitler only mentioned [[Christianity]] in his speeches to gain votes and favor. Any voiced tolerance during the 1930s changed to targeted persecution, mainly of Protestant "resisters" to Nazism.<ref>McNab, Chris. ''The Third Reich''. (2009) pp. 182, 183</ref>
Although Hitler may have had some Christian rhetoric in his speeches, he certainly rejected it on a personal level. In the book, ''Hitler's Table Talk'', it reveals that Hitler thought of Christianity as a great "scourge" of history.<ref>http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/facts/fm0110.htm {{dead link}}</ref>
=== Hitler and the Theory of Evolution ===
''For more information please see:'' [[Evolutionary racism]] and [[Social effects of the theory of evolution]]
Included in the list of banned books in Germany around 1935 were those: "Schriften weltanschaulichen und lebenskundlichen Charakters, deren Inhalt die falsche naturwissenschaftliche Aufklärung eines primitiven Darwinismus und Monismus ist."<ref>Die Bücherei 2:6 (1935), p. 279</ref> (Translation: "Writings of a philosophical and social nature whose content deals with the ''false scientific enlightenment of primitive Darwinism'' and Monism (Hackel).") The Nazi Party blacklisted books which taught the Theory of Evolution.<ref>http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/burnedbooks/documents.htm</ref> Many people don't know this, and continue to believe that Hitler believed in the actual, scientific Theory of [[Evolution]], due to his own occasional misapplication of the word.
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In 1942 Adolf Hitler declared:
{{cquote|In view of the large families of the Slav native population, it could only suit us if girls and women there had as many abortions as possible. We are not interested in seeing the non-[[German]] population multiply…We must use every means to instill in the population the idea that it is harmful to have several children, the expenses that they cause and the dangerous effect on woman's health… It will be necessary to open special institutions for abortions and doctors must be able to help out there in case there is any question of this being a breach of their professional ethics. <ref>http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/sep/07090708.html</ref>}}
=== Adolf Hitler against atheism and secularism ===
{{cquote|Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently all character training and religion must be derived from faith ... we need believing people.<ref>Norman H. Baynes, ed. The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939, Vol. 1 of 2, Oxford University Press, 1942</ref>}}
{{cquote|We were convinced that the people needs and requires this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out.<ref>Adolf Hitler, Berline, October 24, 1933</ref>}}
== Similarities between Communism, Nazism and liberalism ==