Actually Hitler was born in a catholic zone and, probabaly, raised as a catholic but saying he was a practicing catholic is an outright lie. Nazism was atheistic and actively sought to reduce Church’s influence. One of its first steps was to conscript children and teenagers into the Hitler Jugend in order to keep them away from Catholic or Protesntant scout-like organizations and from reciving religious education. Also if you look at a map from Nazi vote and you compare it with rate of cathlicism (known through the people who paid the church tax) you find a near perfect coincidence… but in negative. It was the Protestant and atheistic districts who voted for Hitler.
While we are at it: the “practicing catholic” (according to one of commenters) Hitler, in fact deplored Frank’s victory at Poitiers against the Arabs. He thought that “given their innate racial it would heva been better Francks losing and Germans converting to Islam. Given their racial superiority they would have quickly overthrown Arba doministion but with a faith who Islam guaranteed paradise for warriors they would have been invincible and conquered the world”. These were the world of the so-called practicing catholic Hitler.
And here is another of his sentences: “The bigger and the more outrageous a lie the better the chances people will believe it since they will think you wouldn’t have dared to tell it if it weren’t true”.
