(This is not accurate and re: Churchill and the following sentence seems to only be trying to water down Buchman’s link of being a Hitler supporter. Churchill was the first to see Hitlers fascist ideology and the evil that it could have). It was a time when Winston Churchill and Karl Barth were prepared to give German Nazism a chance to prove itself as a democratic political movement, despite its obvious and repeated denunciation of democracy. Hitler had, at first, presented himself as a defender of Christianity, declaring in 1928: "We shall not tolerate in our ranks anyone who hurts Christian ideas."