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She did not refer to herself as a "Nazi", even though she was writing well after World War II. In 1933, 581 members of the National Socialist Party answered interview questions put to them by Professor Theodore Abel from Columbia University. They similarly did not refer to themselves as "Nazis". [29]
[d] [27] Members of the party referred to themselves as Nationalsozialisten (National Socialists), but some did occasionally embrace the colloquial Nazi (so Leopold von Mildenstein in his article series Ein Nazi fährt nach Palästina published in Der Angriff in 1934).
Nazi Germany was inspired to develop its Lebensraum doctrine by the American doctrine of manifest destiny, Hitler and Himmler were both admirers of the conquest of the Old West and they tried to imitate it in their plans of Drang nach Osten, likening their projects of Generalplan Ost on the Eastern Front to the American Indian Wars, seeking to ...
A homonymic term Nazi was in use before the rise of the NSDAP in Bavaria as a pet-name for Ignaz and (by extension from that) a derogatory word for a backwards peasant, which may have influenced [22] the use of that abbreviation by the Nazis′ opponents and its avoidance by the Nazis themselves. [21] [23] [24]
The Nazis called this "annihilation by labour". But what it became by 1942 is the Auschwitz that sits in our shared memory, for by now it was an extermination camp, whose main purpose was mass murder.
The League published the NS-Frauen-Warte, the only Nazi-approved women's magazine in Nazi Germany; [354] despite some propaganda aspects, it was predominantly an ordinary woman's magazine. [ 355 ] Women were encouraged to leave the workforce, and the creation of large families by racially suitable women was promoted through propaganda campaigns.
The Nazis took this concept to an extreme by establishing a program to systematically genetically enhance the Nordic Aryans themselves through a program of Nazi eugenics, based on the eugenics laws of the US state of California, [19] to create a super race.
The "Hardball" host had compared Democratic presidential frontrunner Bernie Sanders' win in Nevada to the Nazi invasion of France. MSNBC anchors keep comparing Sanders' campaign and its supporters ...