By Selwyn Duke

   Long ago, during the darkest chapter of the 20th century, a movie was released entitled Hitler’s Children.
While the film is virtually forgotten, I cannot forget a certain scene
involving some words a Nazi official uttered to a dissident, a heroic
Catholic bishop. Dripping with contempt, the officer said (I’m
paraphrasing), “In a few years, the churches will be empty.”
It was a thought he obviously relished. Ah, Hollywood and its fiction …
or, is this a snapshot of history, a rare case in which Tinseltown’s
art imitated life?

   For many people, such a question seems rhetorical. They “know”
Nazism was disgorged from the mouth of Christendom and that, it’s safe
to say, every official in the Third Reich was baptized as a child. (Of
course, the atheistic creed of communism was also born in Christendom,
and baptized also were militant atheists Madeleine Murray O’Hare,
Christopher Hitchens, and Richard Dawkins, and author of The Satanic Bible, Anton LaVey.) As for Hitler’s Children,
released at the height of WWII, it could have been propaganda designed
to convince a primarily Christian nation that it had a vested interest
in victory.

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