Protestants, Catholics - Who voted for the Nazis in Germany « News that matter...

Protestants, Catholics - Who voted for the Nazis in Germany « News that matter...

It was easier for Adolf Hitler to silence the Roman Catholics, because they worked for political power and would follow the instruction of the Pope.  Political Catholicism and the Nazi-movement merged in 1933.
The Lutheran movement did not have powerful political parties. The Protestant Church split into two.
The German Christians (Deutsche Christen) constituted the strongest Protestant movement in Germany after the 1932 Church elections, with the aim of synthesising Christianity with the ideology of National Socialism. There were various groups within the German Evangelical Church including the Deutsche Christen and opposition factions that later split under the name Confessing Church.
The Nazi Church in Germany became a mix of Roman Catholics and Protestants, who could not see that two antichrists had taken them for a ride.  Adolf Hitler and Pope Pius XII.