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Nazi Party

Nazi Party

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Political party that ruled Germany under Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1945 and hurt many people
  • noun
  • /ˈnɑːtsi ˈpɑːrti/
translation icon : Partido Nazi
  • The Nazi Party, led by Adolf Hitler, implemented policies that led to World War II.
  • join the Nazi Party
  • Nazi Party members
  • rise of the Nazi Party

When you look at the formation of the Nazi Party, they identified a common enemy for everyone to unite around.

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Examples

  • The Nazi Party may be gone, but Nazi thinking, Nazi training and Nazi trickery remain.

  • Hitler and his Nazi Party rose to power by tapping into these feelings.

    Academic text (2011)
  • I was never a member of the Nazi Party!

  • I was never a member of the Nazi Party.

  • I was never a member of the Nazi Party.

  • You never know who is a member of the Nazi Party.

  • And high officials of the Nazi Party were all over.

  • Now when did you become a member of the Nazi Party?

  • Events of German history leading to the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party?

    Academic text (2004)
  • Two questions dealt with the background and reasons for the rise of the Nazi Party.

    Academic text (2004)

Synonyms

A political party in Germany led by Adolf Hitler that ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945

has identical meaning but is the shorter common name

Surface Forms

Nazi Party singular
Nazi Parties plural

Morphology

Nazi + party

The meaning is directly compositional: 'Nazi' (someone associated with Nazism) plus 'party' (a political organization) yields the political organization of Nazis. This noun‑noun combination is a straightforward, cross‑linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer it refers to the political party associated with Nazism.

Etymology

Nazi Party comes from a short form of the group's long German name. The full name was Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, the 'National Socialist German Workers' Party', and people shortened Nationalsozialist to Nazi, so Nazi Party now means the political party that ruled Germany under Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1945.