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 Format of quotations 

I've done some copyediting. In particular, there was a problem that a full stop was placed before a footnote, the footnote was added, and another full stop was placed after it. A few quotations had not been closed with quotation marks, etc.

Some quotations have are enclosed in   tags, which seem, according to my eye, to change them into italics but not to do anything else.  I don't see any reason to have some quotations in italics and some not. Actually, I don't see any reason to have any quotations in italics.  We've already had problems (in the Hitler article from which this section comes) with someome putting quotations that implied that Hitler was a fervent Christian in block quotes, and leaving the quotations that implied he was anti-Christian embedded in the text where they wouldn't look so obvious, and later saying that was done according to the length of each quotation (a claim which was refuted by a simple word count). I don't see a pattern in other articles of quotations being in italics.

I'm going to change all of the quotations to plain text (i.e. not italics).  Long quotations can, of course, go in block quotes, regardless of which POV they support. Unrelated to the issue of format is the use of the word ""deplored"" in the last sentence. I propose changing that to ""rejected"". ""Deplored"" suggests shock and anger at the fact that this idea existed, rather than simply rejection of the idea. If I'm mistaken in this (as I don't know whether Hitler condemned the idea that Nazism was a religion, or the the idea that anyone would think it was), please change it back.  ♫ "