Lewis Ungit (@LewisUngit)

Pope Benedict XVI lived in Germany during WWII. He talked of the anti-Christian nature of the Nazis: "We experienced a time in which the ‘new Reich’, German mythology, Germanism, were the great things, and Christianity was something contemptible, particularly Catholic Christianity, because it was Roman and Jewish. Through the war you grasped this more strongly from the directives. You knew that every day you were endangered. As long as you had to fear that the Third Reich could win, it was clear that everything, all of life, would then be destroyed." He said that the first time anyone started to claim that the Nazis were aligned with church was almost 20 years later (in the 1960s) and most Germans thought it was a joke not worth responding to (because everyone knew how much the Nazis hated Christianity).