Is it controversial to point out the Nazis were mostly Catholics?

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• remon@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do you have a source for that? Germany generally has a protestant majority, so that would be a bit odd.

  Also the Nazi leadership was quite at odds with the catholic church and Hitler even tried to create a unified protestant church.

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  • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    protestant majority

    Afaik, there are slightly more Catholics. This fowid.de/meldung/religionszugehoerigkeiten-2024 seems to support this.

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    • remon@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, it seems to have flipped in around the millennia.

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• belluck@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s just false. Most Germans were (and still are) protestant, and protestants were overrepresented in the NSDAP.

  The Italian fascists were catholic, though.

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• Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s not controversial. It’s just incorrect.

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  • notsosure@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, a few were Protestant.

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• Greg@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  OK tell us the rest of this half story. What did you say at Easter dinner?

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• notsosure@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It would be more appropriate to state that the vast majority of nazis were Christians.

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• one_old_coder@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No one really cares about the religion of nazis. The real controversy was the pope being a friend of the nazis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_XII_and_the_Holocaust

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• phr@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  lot has been said. deutsche christen werent catholics. but they sound familiar, these days.

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• evening_push579@feddit.nu ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why is this downvoted? It is posted in “no stupid questions” for a reason.

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  • my_hat_stinks@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is validation seeking, not a legitimate question.

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    • Jaegeras@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Violates Rule 5 and Rule 1. But the user probably didn’t care.

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  • Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a fallacy called “begging the question”, a form of bad faith. The question itself assumes something false to be true, then asks a question based on that false assumption.

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