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Slipdigit · #69 (**permalink**) February 11th, 2008, 06:10 PM

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what does he mean by nazi apologist?

Defined:

Na·zi/ˈnɑtsi, ˈnæt-/[naht-see, nat-]noun, plural -zis, adjective

1. a member of the National Socialist German Workers' party of Germany, which in 1933, under Adolf Hitler, seized political control of the country, suppressing all opposition and establishing a dictatorship over all cultural, economic, and political activities of the people, and promulgated belief in the supremacy of Hitler as Führer, aggressive anti-Semitism, the natural supremacy of the German people, and the establishment of Germany by superior force as a dominant world power. The party was officially abolished in 1945 at the conclusion of World War II.

2. (often lowercase) a person elsewhere who holds similar views.

3. Sometimes Offensive. (often lowercase) a person who is fanatically dedicated to or seeks to control a specified activity, practice, etc.: a jazz nazi who disdains other forms of music; tobacco nazis trying to ban smoking.

4. of or pertaining to the Nazis.

a·pol·o·gist (ə-pŏl'ə-jĭst)
n. A person who argues in defense or justification of something, such as a doctrine, policy, or institution.