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  • adjective Of, or relating to, Adolf Hitler or his regime or policy.
  • noun Someone in Adolf Hitler's regime.

Etymologies

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Named for Adolf Hitler, German politician and founder of the Nazi party.

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Examples

  • The idea that the invasion was a catalyst for the Soviet people, igniting their traditional patriotism, which was then intensified by Hitler’s savage treatment of them, is, like the notion of Hitlerite brutalism in the zone, largely a Stalinist myth.

    Deathride John Mosier 2010

  • The idea that the invasion was a catalyst for the Soviet people, igniting their traditional patriotism, which was then intensified by Hitler’s savage treatment of them, is, like the notion of Hitlerite brutalism in the zone, largely a Stalinist myth.

    Deathride John Mosier 2010

  • The reversal of the "Hitlerite" charge-the casting of Hamas as the new Nazis, as Goldberg's title trumpeted-is disturbing, for a reason that Goldberg himself expounded upon:

    CJR 2009

  • Some might argue that the "Hitlerite" talk is something of a case study in framing, in which commentators 'biases and personal points of view determine how a conflict is angled and spun-in headlines, on blogs, at dinner tables.

    CJR 2009

  • Harry Turtledove, our most prolific chronicler of “alternate history”, imagines that the dying Hitlerite regime lived on as a post-war resistance movement.

    Stromata Blog: 2009

  • The setting seems, at first, like a reification of the Hitlerite world view: tall, blonde warriors presided over by a living goddess subjugating swarthy, primitive dwarves.

    Stromata Blog: 2009

  • The setting seems, at first, like a reification of the Hitlerite world view: tall, blonde warriors presided over by a living goddess subjugating swarthy, primitive dwarves.

    I Have No Hugo Ideas, and I Must Vote! 2009

  • Harry Turtledove, our most prolific chronicler of “alternate history”, imagines that the dying Hitlerite regime lived on as a post-war resistance movement.

    I Have No Hugo Ideas, and I Must Vote! 2009

  • German and Soviet (why don't we say Hitlerite and Russian?) munitions production post-1940 was comparable.

    Orwell and War Socialism, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • What Stalin fictionalized as a starkly contrasted black and white of Hitlerite brutality and murder directed against the abstraction of the Soviet people was in reality a complex mosaic of motivations and fears, sometimes converging or complementary, sometimes bitterly opposed.

    Deathride John Mosier 2010

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