The caution drew on his childhood in the fervently Catholic villages of Bavaria, where he saw Nazism firsthand.
They saw Nazism as a bulwark against a Bolshevism that might one day rob them of their wealth.
Oppenheimer, who died in 1943, saw Nazism and Bolshevism as representing last-gasp attempts to resurrect ancient tyranny.
We cannot afford to see Nazism in its present phase of cruelty and intolerance, with all its hatreds and all its gleaming weapons, paramount in Europe.
The next year, Mr. Pepper traveled to Europe where he saw Nazism and Fascism first hand.
Friedländer sees Nazism as the negation of all life, and as a type of death cult.
Rather, until his death Strölin saw Nazism as a good political idea in principle which had only been betrayed by Hitler and his entourage.
He also saw Nazism and Christianity as incompatible.
Bormann was a rigid guardian of National Socialist orthodoxy and saw Christianity and Nazism as "incompatible" (mainly because of its Jewish origins).