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Definition: Nazism from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary

(1934) : 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 esp. Germanic groups assumed to be racially superior, and supremacy of the führer


National socialism

From Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought
The term National Socialism refers to a political movement and ideology born out of a series of tumultuous events in German history that culminated in the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor in 1933. National Socialism, also referred to as Nazism, was at its core ultraconservative, hypernationalistic, anticapitalist, antiliberal, anticommunist, anti-Semitic, and militaristic. On the political spectrum, Nazism is generally, although not always, understood to be a variant of fascism and thus a movement of the extreme right. Fascism itself is a revolutionary political philosophy and movement that grew in popularity in several European countries after World War I, exalting the nation above all else and calling for a strong authoritarian figure to fix the problems of the state, especially the rising tide of communism. The first fascist government to appear was that of Benito Mussolini in Italy in 1922. Italian fascism had a profound influence on Hitler. Both ideologically and…
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Full text Article national socialism

From Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Political Thought
Political movement founded in Germany in 1919, and subsequently led to power by Hitler. Theoretically national socialism was a mixture. As its name implies, it presented itself at first as a nationalist answer to international socialism , and appealed to those who could not envisage any resurgence…
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Full text Article Nazism

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Ideology based on racism, nationalism, and the supremacy of the state over the individual. The German Nazi party, the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers' Party), was formed from the German Workers' Party (founded in 1919) and led by Adolf Hitler from…
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From The Macquarie Dictionary
Nazis a member of the National Socialist German Workers' party, which was founded in 1919 and which in 1933, under Adolf Hitler, obtained political control of Germany; it established a dictatorship on the principles of control over all cultural, economic, and political activities of the people, …
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From The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language
A member of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, founded in Germany in 1919 and brought to power in 1933 under Adolf Hitler. An adherent or advocate of policies characteristic of Nazism; a fascist. often nazi Informal A severely intolerant or dictatorial person: food nazis who want to ban…
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From Film Quotations: 11,000 Lines Spoken on Screen, Arranged by Subject, and Indexed
“Wake me up when you get to the part where he claims Milwaukee.” Fascist fighting pilot Ray Milland quips to reporter Claudette Colbert who settles down to read Hitler's Mein Kampf. Arise , My Love (1940, Paramount). “These guys [Nazi agents] make you and I look like Little Bo-Peep.” Racketeer…
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From Encyclopedia of World Religions: Encyclopedia of Catholicism
Also known as: national socialism abbreviation of German: Nationalsocializmus , “National Socialism.” The term Nazi arose as a pejorative to contrast it with Sozis , or socialists. The word describes the ideological, political, social, and economic system in Germany under the Austrian-born demagogue…
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From The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Houghton Mifflin
A German political party of the twentieth century, led by Adolf Hitler . The Nazis controlled Germany from the early 1930s until the end of World War II . The party's full name in English is National Socialist German Workers' party; Nazi is short for its German name. Despite the word socialist in…
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Full text Article The Nazi Economy

From Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History: A Companion to Nazi Germany Full text Article Economy and Culture
The Nazi economy has been a topic of intense debate since the moment Hitler seized power. The left initially saw National Socialism as a tool of monopoly capitalism, while the right denied any structural links between capitalism and the Nazis. Between these two extremes, scholars have described the…
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Full text Article Nazi Morality

From Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History: A Companion to Nazi Germany Full text Article Structures of Nazi Rule
‘Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear, nor are they one thing among Elves and another among Men,’ says Aragorn in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (1965, 33) when asked by Eomar how one ‘shall judge what to do’ in a world that ‘is all grown strange’. Aragorn articulates a popular…
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Full text Article neo-Nazis

From Encyclopedia of Terrorism
There are several neo-Nazi organizations in North America and Germany. One of the most visible neo-Nazi group in the United Nations is the ARYAN NATIONS, sometimes referred to as the Aryan Nations and the Church of Jesus Christ Christian, formerly led by Pastor Richard Butler, and located, until…
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