nazification

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Definition

1. Noun:
   • The social or political process of making a society, organization, or individual adopt the ideology, policies, and practices of Nazism. This can occur through propaganda, coercion, legislation, or institutional change.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • The rapid nazification of the civil service was a key step in consolidating totalitarian control.
  • Historians study the nazification of German universities in the 1930s.
  • The film depicts the nazification of a small town through fear and indoctrination.

Advanced Usage

• The term is often used in historical and political analysis to describe the systematic transformation of institutions (e.g., nazification of the legal system, nazification of the press).
• It can be used in a comparative or metaphorical sense to criticize modern political movements perceived as employing similar tactics of ideological enforcement and suppression of dissent, though this is a charged and controversial usage.

Variants and Related Words

• Nazify (verb): To cause to adopt Nazism.
• Denazification (noun): The opposite process; the Allied policy after WWII of purging Nazi influence from German society.

Synonyms

• Indoctrination (specifically with Nazi ideology)
• Gleichschaltung (a German term for the process of Nazification and coordination of all institutions)

Related Phrases

• Forced conformity: While not a direct synonym, this phrase describes a key aspect of the nazification process.
• Ideological takeover: A broader term that can encompass the concept of nazification.

Học thuật

Noun

1. social process of adopting (or being forced to adopt) Nazism
   • as the process of Nazification spread they paid less attention to public opinion

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