Christian theological traditions shaped even Nazi race science.

Evidence

In her work on Nazi Germany, Heschel has shown the critical role played by Christian thought even in the European state that re-invented itself, and attempted to re-engineer the continent, on the basis of twentieth-century race science. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 83

Categorization

• SEED: Essay angle: the myth of Nazism as a purely secular, post-Christian modernism — what does it mean that a state premised on race science still depended on Christian theological categories? Connects to contemporary debates about secularism and the religious right.