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Garner's Modern English Usage (5 ed.)
... , pronounced / naht -siz-әm/ , preferably not / naht -see-i-zem/ , denotes the body of political and economic doctrines adopted by Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist Party, which controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945 . The word has been predominantly so spelled in English from its first appearances in print in the early 1930s. ⋆ Naziism is a variant form. Current ratio in print ( Nazism vs. ⋆ Naziism ): 206:1 ...
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Dictionary of the Social Sciences
... The political ideology and program of the National Socialist German Workers Party—better known as the Nazi party. The Nazi party was founded in 1919 in partial emulation of the Italian Fascist party ( see fascism ). In 1933 , the Nazis and their allies received more than 50 percent of the vote in what proved to be the final election of the Weimar Republic (the Nazis alone polled 44.5 percent). Under Adolf Hitler , the German government became known as the Third Reich. Hitler ruled from 1933 until its defeat by the Allied forces in 1945 . As a...
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Bruce E. McCord
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
...the Nazi state. The failure to centralize and effectively organize the German economy for wartime production weakened German resistance, as did Hitler's ever-increasing centralization of power and poor military decisions. Defeat in World War II largely ended the Nazi movement. Many remaining Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes, and the party was banned as West Germany emerged as a postwar entity. Neo-Nazi movements have surfaced however, both in Germany and elsewhere, and authoritarian leaders in some other regions have referred to aspects of the Nazi...
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A Dictionary of Sports Studies
..., sport in Sport featured in the political strategies of the German National Socialist (Nazi) Party in several ways: as a way of building physical strength in the country's citizens (‘strength through joy’ was a slogan of the party); as a means of asserting the physical superiority of the white Aryan race (foiled by various successful black achievements in the boxing ring and in the athletics stadium, for instance); and as a statement of the organizational and technical prowess and modernity of the German Reich (in the appropriation of the Berlin 1936 ...
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New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary (2 ed.)
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Nazi Reference library
Garner's Modern English Usage (5 ed.)
... (= [1] an adherent to the tenets of Adolf Hitler ’s National Socialist Party in Germany ( 1933–1945 ); or [2] someone who exercises authority with excessive strictness and cruelty) is pronounced / naht -see/ or (in old-fashioned films, etc.) / nat -see/ —but never / nah -zee/ or / naz -ee/ . The plural is Nazis , not ⋆ Nazies . Current ratio in print ( Nazis vs. ⋆Nazies ): 19,708:1 ...
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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
... The shortened form of Nationalsozialist (‘National Socialist’), the name given to Adolf Hitler’s party. See also führer ; hitlerism ; mein kampf ; night of the long knives ; swastika...
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The Oxford Companion to World War II
... , acronym formed from NAtionalsoZIalist, the first word of the official title of Hitler's party, the Nationalsozialistische deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party), which was founded in 1919 . See Germany ,...
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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
... a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), Adolf Hitler 's political party. adj. of or about the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). a contraction of the first word of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei...
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A Dictionary of World History (3 ed.)
...sense of nationalism, inflamed by hatred of the humiliating terms inflicted on Germany in the Versailles Peace Settlement . The Nazi’s declared their views were supported by the racist theories of the Comte de Gobineau , the national fervour of Heinrich von Treitschke, and the superman theories of Friedrich Nietzsche. Nazi beliefs were given dogmatic expression in Hitler’s Mein Kampf ( 1925 ). The success of the Nazis in dominating completely what had previously been regarded as a civilized country is to some extent explained by the widespread...
Boni, Nazi (1912–69) Reference library
The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French
...Nazi ( 1912–69 ). Novelist , politician , and député in the French National Assembly. Born in Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), he was author of a widely admired historical novel tracing 300 years of life in an African village, Crépuscule des temps anciens ( 1962 ). Peter...
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The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science
...Nazi physics, the extent of Nazi influence has been revealed and the difference between “science in the Third Reich” and “Nazi science” has diminished. Under Hitler , nearly all areas of science, technology, and medicine, and indeed of scholarship in general, were influenced by the Nazi regime in content, practice, policy, or administration. Historians have tried to understand how and why sciences not obviously relevant to National Socialism still became more or less Nazified in content or approach. Nazi science is thus one of the most important historical...
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Richard Overy
The Oxford Companion to World War II
... ideology . The outbreak and course of the war were profoundly influenced by the ideological outlook of the Nazi leadership. Nazi ideology aimed at the building of a new social order in Germany to prepare the German nation for fighting; it laid emphasis on the racial or biological character of politics; and it contained the view that only through conflict with other races and nations could Germany prove itself worthy to establish a new German empire. The ideas produced by Nazism were not particularly novel. They were derived from vulgar ideas about race and...
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A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (6 ed.)
.... By 5 July 1933 all other parties had been disbanded. Throughout the next twelve years increasing pressure was exercised to encourage Nazi membership, so that by 1945 more than eight million people had joined. Nevertheless, the party's true popularity has been a subject of intense historical controversy, as individual members' motives for joining were diverse and not always ideological. What is clear is that the Nazi party's support was always lower than, and often distinct from, the widespread adulation for Hitler himself. The party was dissolved and...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture (4 ed.)
... architecture Architecture of the Hitlerian Third Reich in Germany ( 1933–45 ), basically of three types: a stripped Neo-Classicism , as in works by Kreis and Speer ; a vernacular style drawing on rural and especially Alpine types; and a simple, utilitarian, industrialized type for factories. Speer’s master-plan for the north–south axis of Berlin ( 1937–45 ) was unrealized, although his New Chancellery, Berlin (1938–9—demolished), was a fine essay in stripped Classicism with an ingenious plan. March ’s impressive Olympic Stadium, Berlin ( 1934–6 ),...
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Nazi–Soviet Pact (23 August 1939) Quick reference
A Dictionary of World History (3 ed.)
...–Soviet Pact ( 23 August 1939 ) A military agreement signed in Moscow between Germany and the Soviet Union. It renounced warfare between the two countries and pledged neutrality by either party if the other were attacked by a third party. Each signatory promised not to join any grouping of powers that was “directly or indirectly aimed at the other party”. The pact also contained secret protocols whereby the dictators agreed to divide Poland between them and the Soviet Union was given a free hand to deal with the Baltic states....
