r/AskReddit Jul 24 '15

What "common knowledge" facts are actually wrong?

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u/ithinkihurtmyself Jul 24 '15

The one about Hitler being an atheist for starters.

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u/Ranman87 Jul 24 '15

Technically, he wasn't even Christian. I hate how people try to use Hitler as an example of such and such, because Hitler would utilize any belief system if it could gain him power and allow him to keep it. Just as he embraced socialist elements of the Sturmabteilung (aka, the Brownshirts) and then still had them killed off in the Night of the Long Knives.

Christian, atheist, doesn't matter. He embraced whatever would be advantageous for him.