The Nazis' (short for National Socialist Party) were the leading political party in Germany through the 1930's, through which Adolf Hitler gained favour and power. They kept power until Germany lost WWII (not at the hands of the Americans by the way, the Russians were the first ones into Berlin, the Americans played little part in the taking of Germany).

They managed to get elected into power through tricking the German public into believing that Jews were the cause of all the problems incurred after WWI and through the 'removal' of anyone who stood in their way.

People may call Nazis gay- that is completely incorrect. They were homophobic, racist, facist order who believed that that the Earth was for a single perfect race- the Ayrians (sp.)- and that anyone who did not belong to this race was sub-human and treated as such. They were christians, and Hitler believed that the Ayrians were the race favoured by God and so they could not fail in their attempts to control the world.

An acronym for National Socialist; from the German NAtionale soZIalist.
Refers to members of the National Socialist party, or anything to do with the National Socialist party.

Two words: Soup Nazi.

Person who was a member of, or believes in the might of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. The government of the Third Reich during the period of 1933-1945.

Not all Germans were Nazis, but most Nazis were German.

Nazi comes from the German word for National Socialist (Nationalsozialistische). A Nazi is a person who believes in the ideologies and practices of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), abbreviated NSDAP, a racialist (belief that one race is superior to others), totalitarian (government having absolute and centralized control) political party in Germany between 1919 and 1945. It was known as the German Workers' Party (DAP) before the name was changed in 1920.
While Nazism incorporated elements from both left and right-wing politics, the Nazis formed most of their alliances on the right. The Nazis were one of several historical groups that used the term National Socialism to describe themselves, and in the 1920s they became the largest such group.

Among the key elements of Nazism were anti-parliamentarism, Pan-Germanism (a political movement aiming for unity of the German-speaking peoples of Europe), racism, collectivism (any moral, political, or social outlook, that stresses human interdependence and the importance of a collective, rather than the importance of separate individuals), antisemitism (intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people), anti-communism, totalitarianism and opposition to economic liberalism and political liberalism, and eugenics

A defamatory slur used mainly in the United States by Progressives, Cultural Marxists, and Social Democrats in an attempt to demonize political opponents who do not agree with their egalitarian world-view.