Nazism
noun
Na·zism
ˈnät-sē-ˌi-zəm 
ˈnat-;
ˈnät-ˌsi-zəm
ˈnat-
variants
or less commonly Naziism
ˈnät-sē-ˌi-zəm
ˈnat-
: the body of political and economic doctrines held and put into effect by the Nazis in Germany from 1933 to 1945 including the totalitarian principle of government, predominance of especially Germanic groups assumed to be racially superior, and supremacy of the führer
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Last year, two TV series, Netflix’s Transatlantic and Nat Geo’s A Small Light, illuminated the other side of the epochal struggle between Nazism and humanism, dramatizing the stories of real people who fought to save the lives of Jews and other targets of the Reich.
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TIME, 8 May 2024
By pure happenstance, Evelyn found a Spanish historian, Josep Calvet, whose research specializes in refugees’ escape from Nazism through Spain and the Pyrenees during the Second World War.
—Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 6 May 2024
Could German idealism be held accountable for Nazism?
—Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2024
Escaping persecution Lessons about oppression against Jews throughout history — the pharaoh, the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, the Soviet pogroms and Nazism — remain at the forefront of the Seder.
—The Arizona Republic, 22 Apr. 2024
Today, the idea that Zionism equals Nazism is common in Western academia and culture.
—Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
Snufkin himself, meanwhile, is famously based on Atos Wirtanen, a mercurial intellectual and one of Jansson’s lovers who spent much of his life opposing the rise of Nazism and the Finnish far right, having to briefly live underground due to his then-radical beliefs.
—Laurence Russell, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2024
Other artists, like Joseph Beuys, who scribbled out a quasi-Marxist manifesto, and Dalí, had been born early enough in the 20th century to know the full enormity of Nazism, fascism and the Second World War.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024
We are left with Auschwitz’s harrowing legacy and reminded of the full extent of the crimes of Nazism.
—Armani Syed, TIME, 12 Jan. 2024
TIME, 8 May 2024
By pure happenstance, Evelyn found a Spanish historian, Josep Calvet, whose research specializes in refugees’ escape from Nazism through Spain and the Pyrenees during the Second World War.
—Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 6 May 2024
Could German idealism be held accountable for Nazism?
—Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2024
Escaping persecution Lessons about oppression against Jews throughout history — the pharaoh, the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, the Soviet pogroms and Nazism — remain at the forefront of the Seder.
—The Arizona Republic, 22 Apr. 2024
Today, the idea that Zionism equals Nazism is common in Western academia and culture.
—Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
Snufkin himself, meanwhile, is famously based on Atos Wirtanen, a mercurial intellectual and one of Jansson’s lovers who spent much of his life opposing the rise of Nazism and the Finnish far right, having to briefly live underground due to his then-radical beliefs.
—Laurence Russell, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2024
Other artists, like Joseph Beuys, who scribbled out a quasi-Marxist manifesto, and Dalí, had been born early enough in the 20th century to know the full enormity of Nazism, fascism and the Second World War.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024
We are left with Auschwitz’s harrowing legacy and reminded of the full extent of the crimes of Nazism.
—Armani Syed, TIME, 12 Jan. 2024
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