Short for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartiei (NSDAP) or the 'National Socialist German Workers' Party' the Nazis was a small political party in post-WWI Germany that Adolf Hitler took over and turn into his personal cult to execute his devilish scheme of power that the world knows as the Second World War.
At its heart Nazism was a populist movement, the kind that panders to the felt-needs and basal instinct of the mob that allows its leader to mould to his own evil ends. It is easy to dismiss it as a one-off and that we would easily see it for what it was and avoid falling into the same mistake again. But it is not. The tragic fact of Donald Trump's presidency is evidence of how easy it is to fall into such populist traps— again and again—even among evangelicals who think they have the prophetic gift to know who God wants for our leader. That evangelical leaders, who mainly support the Republican Party in America would do little to call for investigations into the mob attack on Capitol Hill in 2021 confirms this.
Further Reading & Resources:
Jeremy Begbie, "The Confessing Church and the Nazis: A Struggle for Theological Truth," Anvil 2.2 (1985):117-130. Pdf N 6-7(Open on Phone)
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