Coincidence or conspiracy?

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42. Nazis were strongly encouraged to break any ties with the church, as indicated here:

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/koehler.htm

However, for those unready to abandon Christianity, the Nazis began to provide "dejudaicized bibles"

Jewish references erased in newly found Nazi Bible
Last updated at 14:47 07 August 2006
An institute in Germany has unearthed a Nazi bible ordered by Adolf Hitler to replace the old and new testaments expunged of all references to Jews ...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-399470/Jewish-references-erased-newly-Nazi-Bible.html

Hitler rewrote the Bible and added two commandments
10.08.2006
An institute, founded on Hitler’s command, rewrote Bible texts, eliminating all mentions of the special role of the Jewish people. According to Hitler’s version, Christ was an advocate of Aryan ideas ...
english.pravda.ru/world/europe/10-08-2006/83892-hitler-0/

Susannah Heschel has provided scholarly work on the subject:

A conversation with Susannah Heschel
Author of 'The Aryan Jesus,' a chilling study of the religious movement in Nazi Germany that tried to remove any elements of Judaism from the figure of Jesus
By David B. Green | Mar.12, 2009 | 6:37 PM
... Heschel gained access to the archives of the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Religious Life, which spearheaded this virulently anti-Semitic scholarly endeavor. Though concerned with different periods in modern history, both books grapple with Germany's profound, theologically based anti-Semitism. The members of the institute, which was shut down by local church officials in 1945, sought to create a synthesis of Christianity and National Socialism by removing the Hebrew Bible from the Christian canon and claiming that Jesus was not a Jew but an Aryan ...
http://www.haaretz.com/news/a-conversation-with-susannah-heschel-1.271999