I've just read A.S. Duncan-Jones' WWII booklet The Crooked Cross (London: Macmillan, 1940). Duncan-Jones was Dean of the Anglican cathedral at Chichester, England. He sounded a strong warning about how Hitler and the Nazis developed a quasi-religious cult that twisted Christian symbols and teaching to promote authoritarianism. Just as with MAGA and Trump today, the Nazis presented Hitler as a messianic, manly figure sent by God to save their nation.