Hitler's Favorite Religions

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Albert Speer, who was Hitler's Minister of Armaments, in his memoir gave some insight into Hitler's thinking on religion: 
"Hitler had been much impressed by a scrap of history he had learned from a delegation of distinguished arabs. When the Mohammedans attempted to penetrate beyond France into Central Europe during the eight century, his visitors had told him, they had been driven back at the Battle of Tours.  Had the Arabs won that battle, the world would be Mohammedan today.  For theirs was a religion that believed in spreading the faith by the sword and subjugating all nations to that faith. Such a creed was perfectly suited to the Germanic temperament. . . . Hitler usually concluded this historical speculation by remarking, "You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice fo the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness? " 

Bertrand Russell remarked in "Theory and Practice of Bolshevism:"

"Among religions, Bolshevism is to be reckoned with Mohammedanism rather than with Christianity and Buddhism.  Christianity and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical doctrines and a love of contemplation.  Mohammedanism and Bolshevism are practical, social, unspiritual, concerned to win the empire of this world." 

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