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Nazi, n. and a.|ˈnɑːtsɪ, ˈnɑːzɪ| [repr. pronunc. of Nati- in G. Nationalsozialist.] A. n. A member of the National Socialist (Workers') Party in Germany, led by Adolf Hitler from 1920 and in power from 1933–45; a member of a similar organization; a person who believes in the aims of Nazism or similar doctrines and in the methods necessary to achieve them. Also Comb. So ˈNaziphil(e, a person sympathetic to the ideology of Nazism.
1930Times 19 Sept. 10/1 Herr Hitler, the leader of the victorious National-Socialists (Nazis), has very carefully refrained from saying anything. 1931W. Lewis Hitler 57 The Democrats..have not been able to deal with the Nazi because of his Mastery of the Street. 1934D. Teilhet Talking Sparrow Murders xiv. 202 The police are Nazi-controlled even in Heidelberg. 1938Sun (Baltimore) 6 Sept. 1/3 The center of Santiago was kept in turmoil after Chilean Nazis..seized the National University. 1939Ann. Reg. 1938 195 Added a number of minor Naziphile persons to the Cabinet. Ibid. 234 The chief change made by the new Premier in the Cabinet was to replace Dr. Homan, a strong Naziphil, with Count Paul Teleki. 1942W. S. Churchill End of Beginning (1943) 222 The horde of divisions provided by Finland, Rumania, Hungary, and others of the Nazi-ridden or Fascist-ridden states. 1946R.A.F. Jrnl. May 169 Lancasters..carried the war from one end of Nazi-controlled Europe to the other. 1956A. H. Compton Atomic Quest i. 7 The Nazis saw in the atomic bomb the possibility of a new weapon of decisive importance. 1967D. Eisenberg Re-emergence of Fascism iii. 127 The American Nazi and his uniformed ‘storm⁓troopers’ have frequently demonstrated outside the White House against racial integration in the South. 1974Times 21 May 1/3 Mr Begin described Arab terrorists as ‘the new Nazis’ who made children their targets..adding: ‘We must arm the population to fight these Nazis.’ B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or connected with the National Socialist Party in Germany or a political organization with similar aims, beliefs, or methods elsewhere. So ˈNazi-ish a.
1930Times 16 Sept. 16 (caption) Herr Hitler, the leader of the National Socialists, speaking at the last big Nazi election meeting. 1935C. Isherwood Mr. Norris changes Trains vii. 105 The local Nazi storm-troop. 1939W. S. Churchill Into Battle (1941) 108 There is the Nazi-Fascist ideology, and the Communist ideology. 1939‘N. Blake’ Smiler with Knife x. 154 There's nothing Nazi-ish about it... No talk of labour camps and so on. 1949Koestler Promise & Fulfilment i. v. 54 To put the callous policy of the Mandatory Power on a par with the barbarity of Hitlerism, as the Jewish terrorists did in their slogan of the ‘Nazi-British’, is..unjust and stupid. 1967W. Soyinka Kongi's Harvest 64 The carpenters end with a march down-stage with stiff mallet-wielding arms pistoning up in the Nazi salute. 1973Guardian 29 Mar. 16/4 ‘Nazi’ has become an indiscriminate political cliché applied to insensitive bureaucrats, Americans in Vietnam, IRA Provos, British paras in Ulster, Black September, Zionists, et al. 1974R. Thomas Porkchoppers xviii. 162 ‘You mean Peter Majury?’ ‘Jawohl,’ Gayan said and made a Nazi salute. |