Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The ideology and practice of the Nazis, especially the policy of racist nationalism, national expansion, and state control of the economy.
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- proper noun The
ideology of Adolf Hitler’sNSDAP (National Socialist German Workers’ Party), including aFührer ’stotalitarian government,racism , and often nationalist territorial expansion (Lebensraum ) and state control of the (war) economy.
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- noun a form of socialism featuring racism and expansionism and obedience to a strong leader
Etymologies
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Examples
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Using the rubric of Public Equity which he called Nazism, Hitler was able to secretly rebuilt Germany into a military superpower.
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That was fanciful enough, to be sure, but the carnage of 1914 – 18, which led to the greatest fall of monarchies in history, also widened and deepened the class chasms and led to the spewing-up of Nazism from the wreckage of defeated Germany.
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That was fanciful enough, to be sure, but the carnage of 1914 – 18, which led to the greatest fall of monarchies in history, also widened and deepened the class chasms and led to the spewing-up of Nazism from the wreckage of defeated Germany.
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Of course Nazism is what some Germans did; others fought against it, and still others were indifferent.
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Nazism is just another alien import that like communism should be treated as the toxic pile of crap it truly is.
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The institutional beliefs and drives of, say, Nazism, are clearly dangerous (though a Nazi would argue vehemently that Nazism is not at all dangerous) and such “- isms” can justify “hate” (whatever “hate” is).
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This despite the fact that Nazism is utterly discredited as an ideology.
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Now there was just a paragraph of discussion comparing the book's villains to various figures in Nazism (and when the good guys assess the bad guys, they're always right).
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To me one of the tragedies of Nazism is the way that this great symbol from our collective human heritage (independently occurring in a number of different parts of the world) has been gravely tarnished.
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Now there was just a paragraph of discussion comparing the book's villains to various figures in Nazism (and when the good guys assess the bad guys, they're always right).
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