as well as those who perished because of the Nazi rise to power in Germany
Who said "I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator. By warding off the Jews I am fighting for the Lord's work" back in 1936, WDM?
Nazi /= atheist. Closer to = Lutheran. Try again.
"The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails." H L Mencken