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TAKE IT AWAY BISH - In a BBC interview (1st November 2021) at the climate summit Cop26 in Glasgow, the Church of England’s most senior leader said that world leaders “will be cursed if they don’t get this right”.

He added that “people will speak of them in far stronger terms than we speak today of the politicians of the 30s, of the politicians who ignored what was happening in Nazi Germany because this will kill people all around the world for generations, and we have will have no means of averting it”.

Justin Welby went on to say: “It will allow a genocide on an infinitely greater scale.

“I’m not sure there’s grades of genocide, but there’s width of genocide, and this will be genocide indirectly, by negligence, recklessness, that will in the end come back to us or to our children and grandchildren.”

Where no offence is intended, we feel that families affected by the Holocaust will not take it the wrong way, but more fully understand the context, where the words "Nazi" and "Nazis" is used in every day parlance to describe how a person thinks and acts. Rather than any direct reference to actual crimes committed by any member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.

A NAZI was a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, which controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler and advocated totalitarian government, territorial expansion, anti-Semitism, and Aryan supremacy, all these leading directly to World War II and the Holocaust.

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

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

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Definition of Nazi

1 : a member of a German fascist (right wing) party controlling Germany from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler
2 often not capitalized a : one who espouses the beliefs and policies of the German Nazis : fascist
b : one who is likened to a German Nazi : a harshly domineering, dictatorial, or intolerant person a grammar nazi

2. derogatory

anyone who thinks or acts like a Nazi, esp showing racism, brutality, etc

NOUN

2. a member of this party
3. [often n-]

a. a supporter of this or any similar party; fascist
b. someone who thinks or acts like a Nazi

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Disapproving: a person who is cruel or demands that people obey them completely, or who has extreme and unreasonable beliefs

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1.2 A person who seeks to impose their views on others in a very autocratic or inflexible way.
‘I learned to be more open and not such a Nazi in the studio’

adjective

Of or concerning the Nazis or Nazism.

‘The city of Sunderland is free from Nazi councillors despite a concerted effort by the BNP.’

Articles 9 and 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights, guarantees everyone the freedom of thought and expression, taken to mean using the modern interpretation of any word or phrase as it is commonly used today or may have been used in the past.

The modern use in everyday speaking and written communications is far removed from the horrors of ethnic cleansing (via gas chambers) carried out in Nazi Germany during World War Two . We applaud the work of those seeking to bring the last vestiges of that particular evil to justice.

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