"Believers told each other stories of how Hitler carryied a well-thumbed New Testament in his vest pocket. Even in 1941, a rumor spread 'that Hitler had experienced a conversion [and] now confesses the Christian faith.'"
Alec Ryrie, Protestants: the faith that made the modern world (New York: Viking, 2017), 273, citing The Third Reich and the Christian churches, ed. Peter Matheson (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1981), 96. This is followed immediately by the section on the German Christians, whose "de-Judaized Bible," the Botschaft Gottes (Weimar: Verlag Deutsche Christen, 1940), got it nowhere with the Nazis (273-277).
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