Nazism
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The Austrian government insisted that the permanent police presence would "clearly show" that no commemoration of Nazism would be acceptable and would "neutralise" the site.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
The bricks are the founding myths: victory over Nazism, the haunting U.S. military cemetery in Normandy, Vichy’s street names.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
That is why I think it wise to think of Nazism and fascism as terms referring to specific European movements that grew out of the twentieth-century interwar period in Germany, Italy and Spain.”
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025
The boys and men - whom Ms Barrett calls "crimefluencers" - subscribe to a variety of ideologies, including including nihilism, sadism, Nazism and satanism.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2025
Hannah Arendt, the influential cultural critic who documented the perverse excesses of Nazism, would later write about the “banality of evil” that permeated German culture during the Nazi era.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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