 "believers in God") and 1.5% were without faith.According to historian Richard J. Evans, those members of the affiliation "gottgläubig" "were convinced Nazis who had left their Church at the behest of the Party, which had been trying since the mid-1930s to reduce the influence of Christianity in society".Heinrich Himmler was a strong promoter of the "gottgläubig" movement and didn't allow atheists into the SS, arguing that their "refusal to acknowledge higher powers" would be a "potential source of indiscipline".