Adolf Hitler Had Little Interest in the Church

The only thing that interested the dictator, and even fascinated him, about the Church was that the Catholic Church as an institution had survived for 19 centuries; only in this sense did it serve as a model for his “Thousand-Year Reich.”

(Ferdinand Schlingensiepen, Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906-1945: Martyr, Thinker, Man of Resistance, 142)