>>>"But I'm not even Catholic...."
>>
>>This is probably a reference to something I'm missing, but it may be
>>worth pointing out that in the Strike Witches/Our Witches at
>>War universe, nobody is Catholic. At least not as we
>>understand the term in real life.
>
>The State Religion of Germany is Roman Catholicism. One expects that
>the Kaiser would have to adhere to the faith.

Er, no; Austria was (and is) traditionally Catholic, but Prussia, and later the (North) German Empire it dominated, was not. As far as I know, the Second Reich didn't have a "state religion" as such (certainly modern Germany does not). Bismarck did strengthen the position of German Catholics considerably with his ham-fisted attempt to remove them from political influence entirely in the 1870s (ironically enough), but the population was majority Protestant, and the royal family entirely so. (That is, in fact, one of the key distinctions between the Prussian branch of the House of Hohenzollern and the Austrian one - the Prussians are Protestants and the Austrians are Catholics.)

This was a significant point of contention in the early days of the Third Reich, as it happens, since Hitler was Austrian and nominally Catholic. At the time, no one had yet realized that, far from gaining any kind of upper hand from his ascendancy, the Catholics of Germany would suffer just as much as any other group that the Nazis could and did suspect of being subject to foreign influences. To them, a Catholic looking to Rome was just as suspect, and just as dangerous, as a Communist looking to Moscow.

Anyway, as I say, it's a moot point in OWaW since neither Roman Catholicism nor Protestantism exist as such in the setting; but historically, no, the Hohenzollern Kaisers were certainly not Catholic.

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