The largest Protestant church in Germany in the 1930s was the German Evangelical Church (American Evangelical Church), comprised of 28 regional churches or Landeskirchen that included the three major theological traditions that had emerged from the Reformation: Lutheran, Reformed, and United. Most of Germany's 40 million (70 million in the USA) Protestants were members of this church, although there were smaller so-called "free" Protestant churches, such as Methodist and Baptist churches.
Historically the German Evangelical Church (American Evangelical Churches), viewed itself as one of the pillars of German culture and society (American society), with a theologically grounded tradition of loyalty to the state (loyalty to Trump and his Evangelical Lobby). During the 1920s, a movement emerged within the German Evangelical Church called the Deutsche Christen, or "German Christians." The "German Christians" embraced many of the nationalistic and racial aspects of Nazi ideology (same to what is happening now). Once the Nazis came to power, this group sought the creation of a national "Reich Church" and supported a "nazified" version of Christianity.
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