Contemporary Church History Quarterly

Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017)

Review of Richard Weikart, Hitler’s Religion: The Twisted Belief that Drove the Third Reich (Washington, D.C: Regnery History, 2016), 386 pages, ISBN: 978-1-62157-500-9.

By Kevin P. Spicer, C.S.C., Stonehill College

Biographers and historians alike have devoted countless pages to an examination of Adolf Hitler’s worldview. Just this past year, Lars Lüdicke contributed to this discourse with the publication of Hitlers Weltanschauung: Von “Mein Kampf” bis zum “Nero Befehl” (Ferdinand Schöningh, 2016). Though historians have devoted much energy to discussing Hitler’s antisemitism and militarism, few spent much time analyzing Hitler’s conception of God and religion. In recent years, several authors have endeavored to fill this void, including Continue reading →