How to Use Nazi in a Sentence
Nazi
noun-
As Nazis got closer, Jews would leave the town and go to other villages that felt safer.
— Shoshana Brower, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2024 -
Chancellor Scholz of Germany said that Hamas are the new Nazis.
— Nbc Universal, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2023 -
Zelenskyy equated Russia’s goals in Ukraine to those of the Nazis.
— John Bacon, USA TODAY, 8 May 2023 -
In 1935, two years after the Nazi regime came to power, Ford fired him, for reasons that are unclear.
— Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023 -
Our synagogue in Berlin, closed two years prior by the Nazis, was burned to the ground along with 1,000 others across the country.
— Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023 -
Per the motion, her Nazi post signified the breaking point.
— Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2024 -
One hand is thrown into the air in a Nazi salute, the other clutches an assault rifle.
— Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023 -
During the Holocaust, a Ukrainian family hid a girl from the Nazis.
— Kenya Romero, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2023 -
Zelenskyy equated Russia’s goals in Ukraine with those of the Nazis.
— Susie Blann, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023 -
Hitler’s Nazi regime killed 6 million Jews during the Holocaust.
— Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2023 -
And coming out of the South, being chased by the Klan, being chased by the mob, the government and the Nazis, that sums up the landscape in which this story takes place.
— Ronda Racha Penrice, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Oct. 2024 -
The previous year, the Nazi dictator’s armies conquered Poland, and in the spring of 1940 forced France to surrender.
— Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2024 -
The devoutly Catholic family was killed at their home by Nazis.
— Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2023 -
In the trailer for the special, Silverman jokes that there are still Nazis, so perhaps times don’t ever change that much.
— James Grebey, Vulture, 26 May 2023 -
Josef Mengele, the Nazi death camp doctor, presided over the selection process.
— Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023 -
All three films explore the legacy of Germany’s Nazi past in different ways.
— Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 16 Jan. 2024 -
Is there a right way for Google’s generative AI to create fake images of Nazis?
— Chris Gilliard, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2024 -
Still more works of art had been hidden in monasteries, castles, caves and salt mines to protect them from Nazi theft or wartime bombs.
— Emily Langer, Washington Post, 25 July 2023 -
Hahn, working in Nazi Germany, wasn't supposed to be exchanging ideas with a Jew.
— Ashraya Gupta, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2023 -
Horten, the auction house admits, forced Jewish businesses to sell to him under threat of harm from the Nazis.
— Justin Ray, Robb Report, 2 May 2023 -
Harmony takes for its subject the Comedian Harmonists, a sextet of singers formed in Berlin at the end of the 1920s, who toured the world until the Nazi regime turned on the group.
— Vulture, 13 Nov. 2023 -
Their father was a Holocaust denier and held Nazi meetings at the house, says Randy, who claims a Nazi flag hung on their father’s office wall.
— Valentina Valentini, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2024 -
Finally, Jews had a homeland — one that would go on to take in nearly two-thirds of those displaced after the Nazi genocide.
— Violet Ikonomova, Detroit Free Press, 7 Oct. 2024 -
The Ukrainian president also compared the current war to the allied efforts to defeat the Nazis.
— Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 9 May 2023 -
Six months later, Congress changed the pledge gesture, with those who recite it placing their right hand over their heart to avoid resembling the Nazi salute.
— The Arizona Republic, 21 June 2024 -
They were joined by a bloc of traditionalists who were alarmed at the steady pipeline of German philosophers seeking refuge in the United States from the Nazi regime.
— TIME, 23 Oct. 2023 -
His father, an anti-fascist who is thought to have been a mine surveyor, was shot by the Nazi forces when Cavalli was just three years old.
— Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2024 -
Hamas’ invasion of Israel took the lives of some 1,200 people in a single day and perpetrated the largest mass murder of Jews since the Nazi Holocaust.
— Eli M. Rosenbaum, New York Daily News, 11 Aug. 2024 -
Hamas, with help from a cast of kingpins and enablers, targets civilians, most young, with a purpose and passion of Nazi proportions.
— Brian T. Allen, National Review, 12 Oct. 2023 -
Buoyed by the cost-of-living crisis and immigration angst, its rise has caused soul-searching for a country still mindful of its Nazi past.
— Kate Brady, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
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