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I'd say one difference between Mein Kampf and Leviticus is that Hitler did write Mein Kampf while Moses didn't write Leviticus, so it isn't a first-hand account of his life, but rather a mythologizing of his lfe by others. Though the Pentateuch, which includes Leviticus, is attributed to Moses, much of the Pentateuch was likely written by other authors. Leviticus was probably written by the Priestly Source.

>The entire book of Leviticus is probably composed of Priestly literature. Most scholars see chapters 1-16 (the Priestly code) and chapters 17-26 (the Holiness code) as the work of two related schools, but while the Holiness material employs the same technical terms as the Priestly code, it broadens their meaning from pure ritual to the theological and moral, turning the ritual of the Priestly code into a model for the relationship of Israel to God: as the tabernacle is made holy by the presence of Yahweh and kept apart from uncleanliness, so Yahweh will dwell among Israel when Israel is purified (made holy) and separated from other peoples.

Reference: Book of Leviticus

But that's an aside. In regards to your point regarding Hitler and Mein Kampf, unfortunately, there isn't much biographical regarding Hitler's religious views as a child aside from his own writings. Granted, political leaders may embellish or alter details of their life for political purposes in an autobiography and in that respect Hitler might be little different than current political leaders who make a great show of their piety to gain the support and contributions of religious voters.

Even in regards to his later life, his actual views are debatable. Many do suggest he only pretended to be a Christian, but a German general relates a statement indicating his support for Catholicism even when he was chancellor of Germany.

>Although, as it turned out, the Nazi Party did not have a good relationship with the Catholic hierarchy, this, per se, is not strong circumstantial evidence that Hitler renounced Catholicism. And there is no evidence that he left the Catholic church during his life. Indeed, we know from German general Engel (Engel's 1974 book At the Heart of the Reich: The Secret Diary of Hitler's Army Adjutant) that as late as the fall of 1941, less than four years before his death, and after his Final Solution decision to exterminate the Jews of Europe, Hitler said, "I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so."

Reference: Divinity of Doubt: The God Question by Vincent Bugliosi, page 227

One can always argue that he concealed his true feelings from subordinates as well, of course.

Though it may have been motivated by political reasons, he expressed a need to maintain the churches to Albert Speer while he was chancellor:

>Speer recalled that when in 1937 Hitler heard that many of his followers had dropped their church membership upon the urging of party and SS leaders, he forbade his close collaborators, including Goring and Goebbels, to do so; and that in 1942 he insisted upon the absolute necessity to maintain the churches. He "condemned sharply the struggle against the churches: a crime against the future of the people: to substitute a 'Party-ideology' is an impossibility."

I think the need for many Christians to insist Hitler wasn't a Christian stems from the view that he represents the embodiment of evil and so it would be unacceptable to them that he might share their religious beliefs. As the historian Richard Steigmann-Gall put it:

>What we suppose Nazism must surely have been about usually tells us as much about contemporary societies as about the past purportedly under review. The insistence that Nazism was an anti-Christian movement has been one of the most enduring truisms of the past fifty years.... Exploring the possibility that many Nazis regarded themselves as Christian would have decisively undermined the myths of the Cold War and the regeneration of the German nation ... Nearly all Western societies retain a sense of Christian identity to this day.... That Nazism as the world-historical metaphor for human evil and wickedness should in some way have been related to Christianity can therefore be regarded by many only as unthinkable.

Reference: Religion in Nazi Germany

Here's a book on agnosticism, in case that's what you're looking for:

http://www.amazon.ca/Divinity-Doubt-The-God-Question/dp/1593156294