The villain in the 1981 movie Raiders of the Lost Ark is a NAZI, which is a four-letter word. Nazis were members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, a totalitarian political party that was active in Germany from 1920 to 1945. The Nazis were responsible for the Holocaust, a genocide in which millions of Jews and other minorities were killed. The NAZI villain in Raiders of the Lost Ark is a ruthless and power-hungry character who is determined to find the Ark of the Covenant and use its power for his own gain.