Hitlerian

comparative more Hitlerian · superlative most Hitlerian

1. Of, relating to, or resembling Hitler (the German chancellor) or his actions.

   of Hitlerian proportions

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   [He had] an almost Hitlerian cowlick on his pale brow.

   1955 September 15, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Paris: The Olympia Press […], →OCLC, page 190

   Cambodia was subjected to a genocide of Hitlerian proportions.

   1987 May, “Playboy Interview: Prince Norodom Sihanouk”, in Playboy, volume 34, number 5, Chicago, Illinois: Hugh M. Hefner, →ISSN, page 61, column 3

   Unable to contain his excitement, Foyʼs voice rose two octaves and took on a Hitlerian fervor.

   2015, Paul Beatty, The Sellout, Oneworld Publications (2016), page 217

   War is war — but we need to understand how wrong it is to see the temporary triumph of fascist villainy as the destruction, once and for all, of the German people and the inauguration of an eternal kingdom of Hitlerian darkness.

   2019, Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan, Stalingrad, page 220

   Hitlerian occupation authorities had been preparing action against Polish underground very carefully.

   2024 December 27 (last accessed), Ewelina Pawelic, “Nazi’s reprisals on civilians: Executions in Karolin and Kazanów on 18th March 1942”, in Regional Museum in Zwolen

   Synonyms: Hitleresque, Hitlerish, Hitlerlike, Hitler-y

plural Hitlerians

1. A supporter of Hitler or his policies.

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   Since a German Communist state existed, a state peaceful and democratic by definition, it became more difficult to speak of crimes committed by Germans in general. Poles were confronted with a kind of "Marxization" of the German problem that had to be resolved in terms of classes: in the east were the good Germans because they were progressive; in the west, the bad Germsans, reactionaries, heirs of Nazism, even more-or-less camouflaged Hitlerians.

   2004, Henry Rousso, Richard Joseph Golsan, Stalinism and Nazism: history and memory compared, page 247