Nazi

/ˈnɑtsi/

/ˈnɑtsi/

Other forms: Nazis

Definitions of Nazi

1. noun

   a German member of Adolf Hitler's political party
   synonyms: German Nazi

   examples:

   Karl Adolf Eichmann

   Austrian who became the Nazi official who administered the concentration camps where millions of Jews were murdered during World War II (1906-1962)

   Paul Joseph Goebbels

   German propaganda minister in Nazi Germany who persecuted the Jews (1897-1945)

   Hermann Wilhelm Goring

   German politician in Nazi Germany who founded the Gestapo and mobilized Germany for war (1893-1946)

   Walther Richard Rudolf Hess

   Nazi leader who in 1941 flew a solo flight to Scotland in an apparent attempt to negotiate a peace treaty with Great Britain but was imprisoned for life (1894-1987)

   Heinrich Himmler

   German Nazi who was chief of the SS and the Gestapo and who oversaw the genocide of six million Jews (1900-1945)

   Adolf Hitler

   German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945)

   types:

   Brownshirt

   a member of the Nazi SA which wore brown uniforms

   storm trooper

   a member of the Nazi SA

   type of:

   fascist

   an adherent of fascism or other right-wing authoritarian views
2. adjective

   relating to or consistent with or typical of the ideology and practice of Nazism or the Nazis
   “the total Nazi crime”

   “the Nazi interpretation of history”
3. adjective

   relating to a form of socialism
   synonyms: national socialist