Nazism

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The word Nazism is a short form of the expression National Socialism . It has been in use since 1933 at the latest. The use of the short form was initially common in the GDR , but not in the Federal Republic . The word is easily confused with the similar sounding word narcissism .

In the Buchenwald Oath , this term was used by the surviving prisoners of the Buchenwald concentration camp on the occasion of the funeral rally on April 19, 1945 . Its core message is:

“We do not stop the fight until the last guilty party stands before the judges of the people. The destruction of Nazism with its roots is our watchword. Building a new world of peace and freedom is our goal. We owe that to our murdered comrades and their relatives. "

Victor Klemperer uses the term Nazism in his book LTI - Notebook of a Philologist , in which he deals with the language of National Socialism . In doing so, he tries to distinguish the specifics of German Nazism, which he sees in racism and anti-Semitism and their interdependence and murderous consequences, also in language against terms such as German fascism or National Socialism.

Saul Friedländer uses the term in his book Kitsch and Death. The reflection of Nazism . Fritz Bauer , the chief prosecutor in the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials in the 1960s , also refers to the term: “Nazism did not fall from heaven; he was not only embodied by Hitler. "

"Nazism was the proudly proclaimed contempt for liberal, humanitarian and internationalist ideals to which most nation-states paid at least lip service," said Telford Taylor , the American chief prosecutor in the Nuremberg trial .

In real socialist systems, for example the GDR , the words "Nazi" and "Nazism" were preferred to the actual self-designations "National Socialist" and "National Socialism", presumably to avoid the use of the term " socialism " in connection with the ideological enemy.

Web links

Wiktionary: Nazism  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nazism on Duden online, 2011, accessed on August 4, 2011. See international press reviews: "Leni Riefenstahl was the muse of Nazism" . In: Spiegel Online , September 10, 2003.
  2. ↑ Nazism ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: German vocabulary , University of Leipzig. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de
  3. ^ Leopold Schwarzschild (Ed.): Das neue Tage-Buch , Volume 1, 1933, p. 74.
  4. ↑ The fight. Social Democratic Monthly , Volume 26, Verlag der Wiener Volksbuchhandlung, 1933, p. 414.
  5. ↑ Julius Epstein (ed.): Last Judgment on hatred of Jews. An international survey on the nature of anti-Semitism , Michael Kacha Verlag, Prague 1933, p. 126.
  6. ^ Heinrich Mann: Against the phrase from Jewish pests , Amboss-Verlag, 1933, p. 287.
  7. ^ Karl Kraus (ed.): Die Fackel , No. 890–905 (end of July 1934), pp. 206, 273.
  8. ↑ The Buchenwald Oath (Address in French, Russian, Polish, English and German at the Buchenwald camp rally on April 19, 1945) ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the homepage of the Association of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists , accessed on August 4, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vvn-bda.de
  9. ↑ Best read in Chapter XXI “The German Root”. In: Victor Klemperer: LTI. Philologist's notebook . Stuttgart 2007, pp. 174-190.
  10. ↑ Saul Friedländer: Kitsch and Death. The reflection of Nazism. Extended edition. Frankfurt am Main 2007.
  11. ↑ Fritz Bauer: The Roots of Fascist and National Socialist Action. Frankfurt am Main 1965, p. 12.
  12. ↑ Telford Taylor , 1996, p. 36.
  13. ↑ Nazi . (English) In: Etymological Dictionary etymonline.com : “ In the USSR, the terms national socialist and Nazi were said to have been forbidden after 1932, presumably to avoid any taint to the good word socialist. Soviet literature refers to fascists. ”(German:“ In the USSR, the terms National Socialist and Nazi were probably banned after 1932, presumably to avoid any blemish on the good word socialist. Soviet literature refers to fascists. ”), Accessed on October 6, 2014.