Napoleon, a great dictator, said: Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
But he also said:
I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded His empire upon love; and at this hour millions of people would die for Him.
I imagine that many of the common Nazis were probably more religous than many of the Germans are today.
I guess those pictures explain why Pope Pius XII hasn't gotten very far along with his Sainthood cause yet. He should have told his bishops to use more caution before becoming favorable to the Nazi Party, even if they may not have known all it's secrets.
I suppose some Catholics today are still remorseful that they had to kill Catholic Germans in WWII, even though they were the enemy.
Delcyros, you may be right about the German girls. Here is what happened to them when they went unsupervised.
German Girls' League
The degree of parental supervision naturally diminished as young people went to camp and hostels for long periods of time. In 1936, when approximately 100,000 members of the Hitler Youth and the Girls' League attended the Nuremberg Rally, 900 girls between fifteen and eighteen returned home pregnant.
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I'm sure the priests in the confessionals were very annoyed!