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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Could German idealism be held accountable for Nazism?
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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
His dissertation, later published as the book The Other Side: The Secret Relationship between Nazism and Zionism, was directed by Yevgeny Primakov, a master of Soviet political warfare.
—Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
Displays of Nazism are legally restricted in more than a dozen countries, particularly within Europe, according to Yad Vashem, a Holocaust remembrance center.
—Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2024
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
His dissertation, later published as the book The Other Side: The Secret Relationship between Nazism and Zionism, was directed by Yevgeny Primakov, a master of Soviet political warfare.
—Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
Displays of Nazism are legally restricted in more than a dozen countries, particularly within Europe, according to Yad Vashem, a Holocaust remembrance center.
—Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2024
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