Hitler, Himmler, and Christianity in the Early Third Reich

With the rise of the National Socialist movement, Germany became a hostile environment to many minority groups. Communists, homosexuals, and the Jewish community were all targets of the Nazi Party\u27s aggressive rhetoric and physical assaults, but these actions have often overshadowed the Nazi\u27s persecution of larger majority groups. German Christian communities, both Catholic and Protestant, would eventually be repressed by the Nazi government as well. Why did the Nazis do this? What shaped the Nazi Party\u27s Christianity policy into one of hate and suppression? Both Adolf Hitler\u27s and Heinrich Himmler\u27s personal views on Christianity formed the basis of the Nazi Party\u27s policy towards Christian churches in the early years of the Third Reich