Nazi (noun, plural Nazis or Nazi) refers to a member or follower of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, the regime led by Adolf Hitler that ruled Germany from 1933–1945. The term carries strong historical and moral connotations related to totalitarianism, anti-Semitism, and the crimes of the Holocaust. In modern use, it can describe adherents to extremist, racist ideologies with pejorative intent.
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