In 1939 95 per cent of Germans described themselves either as Catholics or as Protestants 3 5 per cent were Deists gottgl ubig and 1 5 per cent atheists most people in these latter categories were convinced Nazis who had left their Church at the behest of the Party which had been trying since the mid 1930s to reduce the influence of Christianity in society Those are the exact words Hope that helps Hcc01 on a rare flit back to check how things were going PS do check out Michael Burleigh s Sacred Causes book if you can a lot of material in there on Hitler s deism and on his Darwinism but unfortunately I ve very little time to spare for any editing at the moment 86 183 139 158