Der Führer's God by Joe Keysor

Book Review

Der Führer's God

Hitler's Religion: The Twisted Beliefs That Drove the Third Reich
by Richard Weikart

Regnery History, 2016
(386 pages, $29.99, hardcover)

reviewed by Joe Keysor

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Joe Keysor has been teaching English overseas since 1995—in China, Oman, and now at Prince Sultan University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has written two books on the subject of Hitler and Christianity (both published by Athanatos Christian Ministries): A Horror of Great Darkness: Hitler and the Third Reich in the Light of Biblical Teaching (2014) and Hitler, the Holocaust and the Bible: A Scriptural Analysis of Anti-Semitism, National Socialism, and the Churches in Nazi Germany (2010).


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