Although the broader membership of the Nazi Party after 1933 came to include many Catholics, aggressive anti-Church radicals like Goebbels, Martin Bormann, and Himmler saw the kirchenkampf campaign against the Churches as a priority concern, and anti-church and anticlerical sentiments were strong among grassroots party activists [REF].
The Minister for Propaganda Joseph Goebbels wrote that on the "Church Question.. after the war it has to be generally solved...