‘But, even so, it’s impossible eternally to hold humanity in bondage with lies.

After all, it was only between the sixth and eighth centuries that Christianity

was imposed on our peoples by princes who had an alliance of interests with

the shavelings. Our peoples had previously succeeded in living all right without this religion.

I have six divisions of SS composed of men absolutely indifferent in matters of religion.

It doesn’t prevent them from going to their deaths with serenity in their souls’.

— Hitler’s Table Talk, page 143