• 1A member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.

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  • He documents the slow, deliberate erosion of German democracy during the Nazi's inexorable drive toward tyranny.
  • Doriot supported the Nazis and collaborated directly with the German occupying force.
  • But few would guess her harrowing ordeal at the Nazi's Dachau death camp.
  • From there it is no great leap to the slogan of the Nazis, ‘Proud to be German’.
  • Thus the Nazis justified the policy of total extermination or Holocaust of an entire people.
  • One room at the Tate Modern in central London is temporarily devoted to artists condemned by Adolf Hitler's Nazis as degenerate.
  • In the twilight of the Second World War hundreds of Nazis fled to Argentina.
  • That fire was created by the Nazis for the express purpose of rousing the German population and passage of the Enabling Act.
  • When Russia was attacked by the Nazis in the Second World War, the CP switched overnight to supporting the war.
  • To end the chaos, the electorate chose the centralized, nationalistic rule of the Nazis.
  • This was the case under the German monarch, again with the Nazis, and, in a different form, in the East German state.
  • At one time, it was a pilgrimage centre for top Nazis such as Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Goering and Rudolf Hess.
  • Yes, the Germans had the Nazis and the French the Reign of Terror and Vichy.
  • After the first Moscow show trial, the wave of arrests also engulfed the German émigrés who had fled from the Nazis.
  • In Germany, he proposed a United Front of communists and social democrats to oppose the Nazis.
  • Edelweiss Pirates is a fascinating work dealing with the proletarian opposition to the Nazis in the city of Cologne.
  • While the Nazis acted as a party and not as a state power, they did not find an approach to the working class.
  • The Nazis were a fringe party until Germany was struck by vast unemployment.
  • These people went on to collaborate with the Nazis during the Second World War.
  • The Nazis defined the nation biologically, others understood it culturally or historically.
  • No doubt it was the most interesting period in German film history since the time before the Nazis came.
  • The term is a reference to the fascist counterrevolution, that which the Nazis called the National Revolution.

  1. 1.1derogatory A person with extreme racist or authoritarian views.
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     • It takes two minutes searching the Internet to learn the truth about the England First Party that they are a racist, fascist Nazi front.
     • Attempts to pander to racism by targeting immigrants had only helped the Nazis gain support and given confidence to every right winger in the land.
     • It's like condemning the Labour Party for not throwing any Nazis off their membership lists.
     • Ten years ago the BNP Nazis thought they were on the brink of such a breakthrough in Britain.
     • This is an area where the Nazis have conned voters into electing five BNP councillors.
     • In my opinion, US leaders are simply Nazis in beliefs and Nazis in their actions.
     • We have seen in this area how the government's attacks on asylum seekers have only encouraged the Nazis to scapegoat refugees.
     • During the election campaign the BNP bussed Nazis in from across London.
     • These marches are a vital focus for local opposition to the Nazis of the BNP.
     • They are not the same as the Nazis of the BNP, but they are a reflection of the fragmentation of the mainstream right.
     • I guess what I'm wondering is at what point do we become a nation of Nazis.
     • Disparate voices were united in a huge protest against the Nazis of the National Front, who the police waded in to protect.
     • The same goes for building a unified fight against the BNP Nazis.
     • The BNP Nazis want to uproot people whose families have lived in Britain for generations.
     • Which is why most people try to avoid labelling their political enemies Nazis: its a bit ridiculous really.
     • The BNP Nazis are standing a candidate in a council by-election on Thursday.
     • Every major party claims to be strongly against the Nazis and against racism.
     • Let me lay it out plainly for all the white nationalist Nazis in hiding.
     • Can we roll back the tide of racism against refugees, and beat back the Nazis of the British National Party?
     • We have to remember that most BNP voters are not hardened Nazis, and angry workers who listen to the BNP will also listen to us.
     • In Blackburn the National Front and another Nazi group got a combined vote of 38 percent.
     • The encounter prompted many people to call Rocket a Nazi for his patriotic beliefs.

     Synonyms

     authoritarian, totalitarian, autocrat, nazi, extreme right-winger, far right-winger, rightist, blackshirt, militarist
  2. 1.2 A person who seeks to impose their views on others in a very autocratic or inflexible way.
     I learned to be more open and not such a Nazi in the studio

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     • This weekend was particularly interesting because of the Falun Gong demonstration amid all the chaos of white-faced ghouls, bondage Nazis and bemused tourists.
     • Finally, if releasing a book at a precise date and time is so financially important to the embargo Nazis, let them shoulder the security costs.
     • We have made appeals using common sense to show how nonsensical are the health reasons advanced by the health zealots, the health Nazis of Labour.
     • These are the real Nazis.
     • Victims of the appeasement trap often manifest their desperation by becoming company-culture Nazis.
     • Yes, and I'm sure the Few fought the Battle of Britain so that chinless little Nazis could fight elections in this country.
     • I'm a bit of a nazi about some grammar/spelling related issues.
     • I have no doubt that the health and safety Nazis will add this to their crusade against fun.
     • Let me admit up front that I am a travel nazi.
     • But I also think in the media we have people who are sort of like tolerance Nazis.
     • This is the epic story of why Wade is such a nazi.
     • People are being manipulated and mislead - by safety Nazis like you, Mister.

The Nazi Party was formed in Munich after the First World War. It advocated right-wing authoritarian nationalist government, and developed a racist ideology based on anti-Semitism and a belief in the superiority of ‘Aryan’ Germans. Its leader, Adolf Hitler, who was elected Chancellor in 1933, established a totalitarian dictatorship and precipitated the Second World War. The Nazi Party collapsed at the end of the War and was outlawed

• Of or concerning the Nazis or Nazism.

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  • High- and middle-ranking Nazi party members returned to public office and leading positions in the economy.
  • Shops and businesses were destroyed and their owners murdered by Nazi party members.
  • One of the T-shirts for sale had a portrait of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler standing on a laurel.
  • The most fanatical Nazi leaders - Hitler, Goebbels and Bormann - stayed in Berlin, while others fled.
  • It hid its real Nazi ideology in the elections and sought to pick up votes by tapping into the huge bitterness with mainstream politicians.
  • Indeed, until mid-1941, there were more communists and socialists in Nazi concentration camps than Jews.
  • The city of Sunderland is free from Nazi councillors despite a concerted effort by the BNP.
  • A search of the corporal's quarters following the attack is reported to have found Nazi BNP propaganda.
  • From 1938 he closely collaborated with Nazi architect Albert Speer.
  • One of her admirers was Adolf Hitler, who asked her to film the Nazi party rally of 1933.
  • He said it was too biased to be called a documentary and was similar to work by Nazi propaganda director Leni Riefenstahl.
  • In 1920, Hitler announced to the very small Nazi Party the Five Points of national Socialism.
  • Both objections were made to the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders after World War II.
  • She says she was never a Nazi party member, and never anti-Semitic.
  • He spent the war in Berlin, an honored guest of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
  • Indeed, Nazi ideology and methods were totally incompatible with the Catholic position.
  • German films explore Nazi terror and the resistance to it
  • He did not, for instance, nominate Born, who had become a refugee from Nazi anti-Semitism.
  • Next month marks the 60th anniversary of the defeat of Hitler's Nazi regime.
  • Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime persecuted and massacred millions of Jews.

  Synonyms

  authoritarian, totalitarian, dictatorial, despotic, draconian, autocratic, nazi, undemocratic, anti-democratic, illiberal, extreme right-wing, far right-wing, rightist, militarist