Nazi

Third Reich member

A Nazi is a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, which ruled Germany under Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1945.

The regime orchestrated the Holocaust and initiated World War II.

Nazi now labels anyone with fascist, racist, or authoritarian views: He called the border patrol agents Nazis.

As an adjective: Nazi ideology, Nazi Germany.

Informally, nazi describes someone fanatically strict: a grammar nazi, a parking nazi.

ideology

fascism

Ultranationalist dictatorial political system

white supremacy · Aryan · eugenics · Lebensraum · propaganda · indoctrination · Third Reich · swastika · master race · racial purity

military

Wehrmacht

Nazi Germany's armed forces

blitzkrieg · invasion · occupation · panzer · stormtrooper · officer · bunker · Eastern Front · surrender · defeat

antisemitism

Jew

Follower of Judaism

Kristallnacht · yellow star · Gestapo · scapegoating · discrimination · hatred · dehumanization · propaganda · stereotype · expulsion

Holocaust

genocide

Systematic annihilation of a people

gas chamber · crematorium · deportation · ghetto · death camp · Shoah · atrocity · mass murder · death march · liberation

historical

Hitler

Nazi Germany's totalitarian leader

Eichmann · Reich · 1945 · appeasement · annexation · war crimes · collaborator · resistance · liberator

modern

skinhead

Close-cropped subculture member

radicalization · Holocaust denial · hate crime · far-right · extremist

Categories
Opposites
political ideology

Nazidemocrat

Advocate for popular rule

democratic · liberal · antifascist · communist · socialist

moral stance

Naziresistance fighter

Armed opponent of occupation

Holocaust survivor · rescuer · liberator · humanitarian · Anne Frank

world war ii alignment

NaziAlly

Feminine given name

GI · Red Army · French Resistance · Maquis · Winston Churchill

Phrases
Family

Nazis, Nazism, Naziism, Nazi-like, neo-Nazis, anti-Nazi

Familiarity
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG-13