How to Use Nazism in a Sentence

Nazism

noun
  • To which the response is often, Well, Nazism was an idea.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2024
  • We are left with Auschwitz’s harrowing legacy and reminded of the full extent of the crimes of Nazism.
    Armani Syed, TIME, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Today, the idea that Zionism equals Nazism is common in Western academia and culture.
    Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
  • His comments closely reflect those of Adolf Hitler as the German leader argued his case for Nazism.
    Kyler Alvord, Peoplemag, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The dignity of man was subordinated to the powers of Nazism.
    Robert D. McFadden, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023
  • Then the struggle against Nazism, which was succeeded by the struggle against the communist regime and its Russophilic policies.
    Jared Marcel Pollen, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
  • His comments closely reflected those of Hitler as the German leader argued his case for Nazism.
    Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 21 May 2024
  • In the game, users can play as members of the Ustaša, a Croatian nationalist group that was influenced by fascism and Nazism.
    Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 18 July 2024
  • The novelist Thomas Mann thought that German expressionism and Nazism both sprang from the same root of emotional self-abandonment.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
  • By the mid-1930s, millions saw the totalitarian ideologies of Communism, Nazism and Fascism as the waves of the future.
    Steve Forbes, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The ads had appeared next to posts that included memes portraying Nazism as a spiritual awakening and Adolf Hitler quotes.
    Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
  • This belief also influenced the broader debate in the postwar years about the historical origins of Nazism.
    David Motadel, The New York Review of Books, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Just last month, at least two brands paused their ad spending on X after their advertisements ran alongside an account promoting Nazism.
    Clare Duffy, CNN, 8 Sep. 2023
  • This is, obviously, a contradiction in terms—Nazism was the antithesis of reason.
    Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 20 July 2023
  • The author draws a parallel between the viciousness of Nazism and the violence across Central America, where more than a million people have been displaced from their homes.
    Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Still, two brands last month paused their ad spending on X after their advertisements ran alongside an account promoting Nazism.
    Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Throughout Europe a myth endures that the war against Nazism and fascism was both logically and manifestly a war for democracy and freedom.
    Gary Younge, The New York Review of Books, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Two brands in August paused their ad spending on X after their advertisements ran alongside an account promoting Nazism.
    Clare Duffy, CNN, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Raised on comforting traditional German melodies even as the nationalist strains of Nazism reached a fever pitch, Westheimer came to adore the patriotic songs of Switzerland.
    Zack O’Malley Greenburg, Variety, 15 July 2024
  • German centrists – despite a decades-long mission to ensure a movement like Nazism never again takes root in society – have not been immune to this rightward momentum either.
    Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The problem of evil was at the heart of Taubes’s excursions into Gnosticism, antinomianism, and apocalypse itself, as well as his attempts to understand Nazism.
    Susan Neiman, The New York Review of Books, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Investigators have discovered online posts in which Garcia appears to have espoused support for Nazism and obsessed over guns and prior mass shootings.
    Holly Yan, CNN, 10 May 2023
  • The question of anti-Semitism, Nazism, and a particularly nasty sibling haunted Nietzsche’s legacy.
    Big Think, 24 June 2024
  • Jürgen Prochnow stars as the experienced and disillusioned unnamed captain whose sense of military duty and commitment to his men overwhelms open distaste for Hitler, Nazism, and the execution of the war.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 May 2024
  • Others have noted their ambiguous (even hostile) relationship with Christianity place fascism and Nazism more in the leftist camp.
    Time, 22 Aug. 2023
  • During his imprisonment, as support for Nazism swelled, Hitler wrote the first volume of Mein Kampf, his autobiographical manifesto.
    Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The German Embassy in China, meanwhile, threatened to block some users from its social media account after receiving comments glorifying Nazism.
    Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Fellow Travelers is a historical reference in the ’40s and ’50s, the fellow traveler was sometimes how someone who might be sympathetic to what was happening in Germany, to Nazism, was a fellow traveler.
    Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2024
  • Americans successfully defeated Communism and Nazism and the metric system.
    The Editors, National Review, 4 July 2024
  • In the case decided Friday, Navalny, 47, was charged with promoting terrorism, funding extremism, and rehabilitating Nazism.
    Aaron Boxerman and Valeriya Safronova, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023

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