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Werner Sombart
Werner Sombart , 1863-1941, German economist. In 1917 he became professor of economics at the Univ. of Berlin. Influenced by Marx's historical approach to economics, he produced several analyses of capitalism, including Der moderne Kapitalismus (Vol. I and II, 1902; Vol. III, 1928) and Der Bourge... Read more
Johannes Robert Becher
Johannes Robert Becher , 1891-1958, German poet and essayist. After an early association with the Expressionist movement, Becher turned to Communism. His anti-imperialist poetry, notably Der Leichnam auf dem Thron [the corpse on the throne] (1925), led to exile from Nazism (1935-45) in the USSR, w... Read more
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer , 1906-45, German Protestant theologian. Bonhoeffer, influenced early by the thinking of the young Karl Barth , urged a conformation to the form of Jesus as the suffering servant in a total commitment of the self to the lives of others. His ethical thinking led him to become an ... Read more
Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti , 1905-94, English novelist and essayist, b. Ruschuk (now Ruse), Bulgaria. He came from a Sephardic Jewish background, spent most of his early years in Vienna, and, fleeing Nazism, emigrated to England in 1939 just before the outbreak of World War II. His most important works, all writ... Read more
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt , 1906-75, German-American political theorist, b. Hanover, Germany, B.A. Königsberg, 1924, Ph.D. Heidelberg, 1928. She emigrated (1941) to the United States and was naturalized in 1950. Arendt was a lecturer and Guggenheim fellow, 1952-53; visiting professor at the Univ. of Califo... Read more
W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden (Wystan Hugh Auden) , 1907-73, Anglo-American poet, b. York, England, educated at Oxford. A versatile, vigorous, and technically skilled poet, Auden ranks among the major literary figures of the 20th cent. Often written in everyday language, his poetry ranges in subject matter from pol... Read more
Nazi
Nazi A member of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or National Socialist German Workers' Party. It was founded in 1919 as the German Workers' Party by a Munich locksmith, Anton Drexler, adopted its new name in 1920, and was taken over by HITLER in 1921. The Nazis dominated Germany... Read more
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche , 1844-1900, German philosopher, b. Röcken, Prussia. The son of a clergyman, Nietzsche studied Greek and Latin at Bonn and Leipzig and was appointed to the chair of classical philology at Basel in 1869. In his early years he was friendly with the composer Richard Wag... Read more
National Socialism
National Socialism or Nazism, doctrines and policies of the National Socialist German Workers' party, which ruled Germany under Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1945. In German the party name was Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP); members were first called Nazis as a derisive ab... Read more
Munich
Munich , Ger. München , city (1994 pop. 1,255,623), capital of Bavaria, S Germany, on the Isar River near the Bavarian Alps. It is a financial, commercial, industrial, transportation, communications, and cultural center. Its industries produce precision and optical instruments, electrical appl... Read more

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Nazism
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Nazism Nazism is a convenient abbreviation for the ideology of National Socialism, which...transmitted down through the ranks and had to be obeyed without question. Nazism owed a good deal to the example and inspiration of Italian Fascism, from...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...power and majesty of God. Resistance to Nazism Bonhoeffer was one of the first German...Protestants to see the demonic implications of Nazism. After Hitler came to power in 1933...German Christians who were protesting Nazism. In 1935 Bonhoeffer returned to Germany...
Porter, Katherine Anne
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...1944), set in Berlin, Germany, deals with the menace of Nazism (a German political movement that scorned democracy and attempted...alters their personal lives and blinds them to the growth of Nazism. Porter was for many years more popular everywhere else in...
Dorothy Thompson
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...expelled from there by Hitler because of her negative views of Nazism. (Similarly, in Russia she was persona non grata because...Communism.) She continued to write dramatically of the dangers of Nazism to Western democracies and challenged the views of Charles Lindbergh...
Arendt, Hannah
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...helped German Zionists publicize the plight of the victims of Nazism. For the remainder of the decade, Arendt lived in Paris...ideals of human rights were collapsing, plus her argument that Nazism was conducting two wars — one against the Allies...
Konrad Adenauer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...him a victim of insomnia. In 1933 Adenauer, an opponent of Nazism, was driven from office by the new regime of Hitler. He was...almost 70, his reputation as a good administrator untainted by Nazism gave him a political edge. Conflicts with the British occupation...
Irene Harand
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Austrian leader in Vienna who vigorously attacked the evils of Nazism, anti-Semitism, and religious intolerance and was honored...1980s did it become apparent that not all of the horrors of Nazism originated in the nation that Adolf Hitler and his movement...
Abbas, Mahmoud
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...however, have widely criticized Abbas, in particular for his 1984 book The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism, that evolved from his doctorate. Critics said he understated the number of Jewish deaths during the Holocaust...
Gisi Fleischmann
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...and affection. In 1939 she was sent to London and Paris to try to persuade foreign governments to take in the Jews menaced by Nazism and to obtain more funds from Jewish relief organizations to deal with the refugee situation in Central Europe. But no government...
George Peabody Gooch
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Gooch was editor of the Contemporary Review from 1911 until 1960. He contributed many essays to the Review, using it to attack Nazism after 1934. To its pages he welcomed refugees from Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. In History and Historians in the Nineteenth...

Dictionary entries related to "Nazism"

German-American Bund
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Germany, an organization formed in 1932 to generate support for Nazism among people of German descent living in the United States...activities contributed to the growing American repugnance for Nazism. BIBLIOGRAPHY Canedy, Susan. America's Nazis: A Democratic...
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...x2013;45) German Lutheran theologian. An active opponent of Nazism, he signed (1934) the Barmen Declaration in protest against attempts by German Christians to synthesize Nazism with Christianity. He was forbidden by the government to teach...
Cabaret
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Kat Klub, the film ruthlessly depicts Berlin in the last days of the decadent Weimar Republic, and the terrifying rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany. Fosse cleverly interweaves the action taking place on the stage of the club with the political and social...
Komissar
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...vision of the future Holocaust and of the Magazanik family being led to the gas chambers hinted darkly at a connection between Nazism and Russian anti-Semitism and could possibly remind audiences of Stalin's appeasement of Hitler." In addition to the powerful...
Heckroth, Hein
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...strong, forms suggestive of several things, sumptuous textures and cursive lines—a sort of theatrical fauvism. Nazism and the war dislocated Heckroth's career, but after the war Powell's usual art designer, Alfred Junge, set him designing...
Pasternak, Joe
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Franciska Gaal: Paprika, Skandal in Budapest, Fruchten, Frühjahrsparade and Katharina die Letzte. With the rise of Nazism, Pasternak implored his studio for a post in Hollywood. Universal offered him a production job for himself and two of his...
History and Psychoanalysis
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...psychobiographical studies, that was most influential on certain of his successors. Notably, in this regard, reinterpretations of Nazism in terms of Adolf Hitler's personality and psychopathology can be cited; see, for example, Saul Friedl ä nder...
Mass Psychology of Fascism, The
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...evoking the fantasy of the primal scene (and reproduced hundreds of thousands of times), showed in spectacular fashion how Nazism systematically manipulated the unconscious. A repressive family, a baneful religion, a sadistic educational system, the...
Tosquelles, François (1912-1994)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...enrolled in the medical school of Barcelona University, where he met S á ndor Eiminder, an Austrian refugee fleeing Nazism, who became his psychoanalyst. As early as 1934 he was appointed to work as a physician in the Instituto Pere Mata and enjoyed...
Training Analysis
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...During the years when psychoanalysis was expanding, thanks both to the dispersal of é migr é s in flight from Nazism and to the strengthening of the movement's institutions, training analysis became the subject of innumerable papers, reports...

Thesaurus entries related to "Nazism"

fascism
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...seems like fascism to me synonyms : authoritarianism, totalitarianism, dictatorship, despotism, autocracy; Nazism, rightism; nationalism, xenophobia, racism, anti-Semitism; jingoism, isolationism; neofascism, neo-Nazism.
espousal
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus espousal • noun  Will's recent espousal of neo-Nazism has distressed his family and perplexed his friends synonyms : adoption, embracing, acceptance; support, championship, encouragement...

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Nazism and the Christian heritage: Robert Carr draws uncomfortable parallels between Christianity and Nazism.(Opinion Forum)
Magazine article from: History Review; 12/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; At first sight, the very idea that Nazism bears any relation to Christianity seems...there were marked Christian influences on Nazism. This article will look specifically...and the blood libel. Indeed, before Nazism even, Theodor Fritsch argued, 'Surely...
Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth and Neo-Nazism. (Reviews: general and international).
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 12/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth and Neo-Nazism, by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. New York...it is apparent that certain myths about Nazism will never fully disappear. If for no other reason, Nazism serves as a useful foil, a way of gauging...
What Islamism Shares With Nazism
Newspaper article from: Forward; 11/9/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...09-2001 What Islamism Shares With Nazism As Americans grapple with the new ideological...the old benchmark of ultimate evil, Nazism, has been invoked in the effort to understand...predicted that radical Islam will soon join Nazism among the "discarded lies" of history...
Judging Nazism and Communism.
Magazine article from: The National Interest; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...two great threats to liberal democracy, Nazism and Communism? During the high Cold War...ever really go away again. For while Nazism and Communism are most unlikely to recur...when we ask whether it is Communism or Nazism that must be judged the greater evil...
The Church of England and the Holocaust: Christianity, Memory and Nazism
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Holocaust: Christianity, Memory and Nazism. By Tom Lawson. [Studies in Modern...leaders to understand the realities of Nazism, especially Nazi crimes against the Jews...failure in its context. In interpreting Nazism, Anglican churchmen relied on their pre...
On Heidegger's Nazism and Philosophy.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 6/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...theme, is that Heidegger's turn to Nazism is integral to his philosophical thought...determined by his continuing concern with Nazism" (p. 5). To make a case for this...enables fundamental ontology to move to Nazism by identifying authentic German national...
Nazism in Germany is No Surprise.
Newspaper article from: The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA); 10/8/1992; ; 668 words ; Byline: Dershowitz, Alan M. Nazism in Germany is No Surprise. Why does the...world seem so shocked at the resurgence of Nazism in Germany? It would be surprising if...never been taught about the true evils of Nazism and the widespread complicity of the German...
GERMANY STIFF SOFT ON NAZISM.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 11/1/1993; 700+ words ; ...prosecutors are still notoriously soft on Nazism. Nor can the disparity in treatment between...communism is a more pressing current evil than Nazism. To the contrary, there is little danger...victims included virtually all Germans. Nazism, on the other hand, is experiencing...
Nazism wasn't born of Christianity, Jewish scholars say.(Nation)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 9/7/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...reject the belief that Christianity fueled Nazism and the Holocaust, the first such initiative...built on Jesus and the New Testament. "Nazism was not a Christian phenomenon," said...sentiment and violence opened the way for Nazism, and many Christians stood by as Jews...
The Geist in the machine: Nazism in Tournier's 'Le Roi des aulnes.' (Michel Tournier)
Magazine article from: The Romanic Review; 3/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...surrounded Tournier's treatment of German Nazism in Le Roi des aulnes, a novelistic if...who apparently sought to aestheticize Nazism, and could so do by using his chosen...debate by reappraising the presentation of Nazism in what is universally acclaimed as a...