How to Use Nazism in a Sentence

Nazism

noun
  • The Allies could not drive Nazism from people’s hearts and minds.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 21 Oct. 2024
  • That includes the postwar alliance forged in the fight against Nazism.
    — Massimo Calabresi/dachau, TIME, 22 Feb. 2025
  • But as Nazism makes its way through France, Sara quickly finds her world crumbling around her.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 3 Oct. 2024
  • But the preferred form of modern neo-Nazism is verbal, or verbal and visual.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The family, the romance and any chance of a happy ending are threatened by the rise of Nazism.
    — Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2026
  • It was thought by some that the two were inspired by violent entertainment and Nazism.
    — Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The family, not to mention a couple of romances, are threatened by the rise of Nazism.
    — Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The Nazism moment in last week's hearing was far less straightforward than in 2022.
    — Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 27 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Geppert feels there are echoes of the Nazism that once took over her native land now playing out in the United States.
    — Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Today, the idea that Zionism equals Nazism is common in Western academia and culture.
    — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Musk has been accused of supporting antisemitic claims and insulting victims of Nazism.
    — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2025
  • The party was founded in 1956 by former Nazis, but today denies any links to Nazism.
    — Sophie Tanno, CNN, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Le Tellier also explores the notion that Nazism is a state of mind that is easier to slip into than any of us might like to think.
    — Colette Davidson, Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2025
  • His comments closely reflected those of Hitler as the German leader argued his case for Nazism.
    — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 21 May 2024
  • Nowadays, rather than a motif of peace or well-being, it is closely linked for most Westerners to antisemitism and Nazism.
    — Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The curators’ skittishness is understandable, for any mention of Friedrich vis-à-vis war calls up the specter of Nazism.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Amrum lives in the category of movies that confront the cruelty of Nazism through the perspective of children.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2025
  • His comments closely reflect those of Adolf Hitler as the German leader argued his case for Nazism.
    — Kyler Alvord, Peoplemag, 18 Dec. 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
  • Goebbels’s department was charged with converting the masses to Nazism through media in all its forms at the time—books, newspapers, films, radio.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
  • New guidelines on how to teach Nazism The swastika epidemic wasn’t happening in isolation.
    — Daniela R. P. Weiner, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Leni Riefenstahl, the defiant figure, ambushed by questions about her Nazism on a talk show, is perhaps the most revealing footage in the film.
    — Daniel Jonah Wolpert, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Still, some historians object to reincarnating a place so central to Nazism as a cultural venue for pleasure.
    — Shira Li Bartov, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Mass nihilism preceded both the rise of Nazism in Germany and Bolshevism in Russia.
    — Ariel David, Baltimore Sun, 16 Mar. 2026
  • One of the opponents of Nazism was the writer and translator Viktor Klemperer.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
  • On his phone, customs agents discovered messages encouraging extreme violence, rape, Nazism and self-harm.
    — Curt Devine, CNN Money, 10 Feb. 2026

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