Meaning & use
Nazism
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The totalitarian political ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, led by Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1945, marked by extreme nationalism, racism, and antisemitism.
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Historians continue to study how Nazism rose to power in 1930s Germany.
The museum exhibit documents the atrocities committed under Nazism.
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A historically significant term central to the study of 20th-century history and the Holocaust.
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National Socialism
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