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Nazi Party
Nazi Party (NSDAP, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei): far-right racist, antisemitic German party led by Adolf Hitler; founded 1920 from the DAP, ruled Germany 1933–1945, banned and declared a criminal organization by the Allies.
Nazi Party Chancellery
The Nazi Party Chancellery (Parteikanzlei der NSDAP) was the NSDAP's central office from May 1941 to 1945, headed by Martin Bormann after Rudolf Heß's flight, controlling the party's exclusive channel into state legislation.
Nazi plunder
Nazi plunder: the systematic 1933-1945 seizure of over 600,000 artworks and cultural property, chiefly from Jewish owners, mainly by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, followed by Allied recovery, the 1998 Washington Principles, and ongoing restitution.
Nazi racial theories
Nazi racial theories: the regime's pseudo-scientific racial doctrine (Rassenhygiene, Aryan hierarchy, antisemitism) drawing on eugenics and völkisch race-thinking, codified in the 1933 sterilization law and 1935 Nuremberg Laws, leading to 400,000 sterilizations and the Holocaust.
Nazi salute
Nazi salute (Hitlergruss), also called Roman or fascist salute: a straight-armed right-arm gesture of Nazi Germany and Italian Fascism, falsely attributed to ancient Rome, now criminalized in Germany, Austria, and other countries but legal in the US.
Nazi songs
Nazi songs, also known as Songs of the Third Reich, were songs produced or appropriated by the Nazi movement, including the Horst Wessel Song, banned after 1945.
Nazi symbolism
Nazi symbolism: the emblems of the NSDAP and Third Reich, chiefly the Hakenkreuz swastika flag Hitler designed in 1920, made the national flag in 1935, and banned in Germany and other countries after 1945.
Nazi UFOs
Nazi UFOs, also called Reichsflugscheibe, are a conspiracy theory holding that Nazi Germany built flying discs with exotic propulsion; the legend arose from 1950 press reports, and historians find no documentary evidence.
Nazi-Maoism
Nazi-Maoism, also called nazi-maoismo, is an Italian far-right ideology synthesized by Franco Freda around 1968, combining Nazism with Maoist revolutionary rhetoric and guerrilla strategy, associated with Lotta di Popolo and the Years of Lead.
Nazi-Maruttash
Nazi-Maruttaš, also written Nazimaruttaš, was the twenty-third king of the Kassite dynasty of Babylon, son and successor of Kurigalzu II, ruling around 1300 BC for about twenty-five years.
Nazia Hassan (نازیہ حسن)
Nazia Hassan (نازیہ حسن), born 1965 in Karachi, was a Pakistani pop singer who, with "Aap Jaisa Koi" and Disco Deewane (1981), founded South Asian pop music and won the Filmfare Award.
Naziba
Naziba was a Canaanite town of the Late Bronze Age, known today only from a single letter in the Amarna archive, in which its ruler pledged troops to the pharaoh.
Nazik al-Malaika
Nazik al-Malaika (نازك الملائكة), 1923–2007, was an Iraqi poet who pioneered Arabic free verse with her 1947 poem "The Cholera" and wrote its first prosody theory.
Nazim Sadykhov
Nazim Sadykhov, "Black Wolf", Azerbaijani UFC lightweight born 1994, fighting out of Brooklyn; 11-3-1 pro, 4-2-1 in the UFC, Dana White's Contender Series 2022 alumnus with 8 KO wins and three Fight of the Night bonuses.
Nazino tragedy (Назинская трагедия)
Nazino tragedy (Назинская трагедия, Cannibal Island): May 1933 landing of about 6,100 'declassed element' deportees from Moscow and Leningrad on Nazino Island in the Ob River, with mass death from starvation, exposure, and disease.
Nazir Afzal
Nazir Afzal OBE: British solicitor, former Chief Crown Prosecutor for North West England (2011–2015) who reopened the Rochdale grooming gang case, leading to nine convictions in 2012; later Chancellor of the University of Manchester and independent reviewer.
Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi
Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi (نذیر احمد دہلوی; 1830–1912), popularly called Deputy Nazir Ahmad, was an Urdu prose writer and reformer whose 1869 novel Mirat-ul-Urus is regarded as the first regular Urdu novel.
Nazir Akbarabadi
Nazir Akbarabadi (نذیر اکبرآبادی), born Wali Muhammad, was an Indian Urdu poet of the late Mughal period who wrote about ordinary people's life at Agra.
Nazir Ayyad
Nazir Ayyad, born in 1974, is an Egyptian Islamic scholar and Al-Azhar professor appointed Grand Mufti of Egypt, head of Dar al-Ifta, in 2024, succeeding Shawki Allam.
Nazir Hussain (نذیر حسین)
Nazir Hussain (نذیر حسین) was an Indian actor, director, and screenwriter who appeared in almost 500 Hindi films and is regarded as the founding figure of Bhojpuri cinema.
Nazire
Nazire (نظيرة) is a poem written in response to another poet's poem in the same meter, rhyme, and refrain, a major tradition of classical Turkish and Ottoman literature.
Naziri Nishapuri
Naziri Nishapuri (نظیری نیشاپوری), born Mirza Mohammad Hosayn in Nishapur around 1560, was an Indo-Persian poet at the Mughal court who wrote eulogies for Akbar and Jahangir and died in Ahmadabad between 1612 and 1614.
Nazirite (נזיר)
A Nazirite, also called a Nazarite (Hebrew nazir, נזיר), is a man or woman taking a voluntary biblical vow in Numbers 6 to abstain from grape products, shaving, and contact with the dead.
Nazism
Nazism (National Socialism, Nationalsozialismus) was the ideology and one-party dictatorship of Hitler's NSDAP in Germany, 1933–1945, defined by racial antisemitism, Lebensraum expansion, and a rearmament-driven economy, culminating in the Holocaust and World War II.
Nazit Mons
Nazit Mons, a 350 km diameter mons (large shield volcano) on Venus at 22.5°N 240°E in the Hecate Chasma quadrangle, named in 2003 for an Egyptian winged serpent goddess.
Nâzım Hikmet
Nâzım Hikmet was a Turkish poet and playwright, born in 1902, who introduced free verse into modern Turkish poetry and died in exile in Moscow in 1963.
Nazım Pasha
Nazım Pasha (ناظم پاشا) was an Ottoman army commander and statesman who served as Minister of War and was killed in office during the 1913 Raid on the Sublime Porte.
Nazm
Nazm (نظم) is the principal non-ghazal genre of Urdu poetry, a poem on a single central theme, unlike the couplet-based ghazal; the modern form arose in the late 19th century.
Nazneen Rahman
Nazneen Rahman is a British human geneticist who identified cancer predisposition genes including PALB2 and led the Mainstreaming Cancer Genetics program, bringing testing to NHS patients through routine oncology care.
Nazran
Nazran (Назрань; Ingush: Наьсаре, Näsare) is the largest city of the Republic of Ingushetia in the North Caucasus, Russia, and its capital until Magas took over in 2000.