Führer

Führers (plural)
Führer (plural)
Fuehrer (alternative)
Fuhrer (alternative)
fuhrer (alternative)

Unadapted borrowing from German Führer, modelled after Italian Duce. Doublet of farer.

When the Führer says we is the master race
We "Heil!" (Bronx cheer), "Heil!" (Bronx cheer) right in the Führer's face.

1942, Oliver Wallace, “Der Fuehrer's Face”:

(historical, Nazism, definite) Adolf Hitler when he was the chancellor of Nazi Germany.


Hitler

Borrowed from German Hitler; see German Etymology for further details.

The British ruling class are fighting against Hitler, whom they have always regarded and whom some of them still regard as their protector against Bolshevism. That does not mean that they will deliberately sell out; but it does mean that at every decisive moment they are likely to falter, pull their punches, do the wrong thing. Until the Churchill Government called some sort of halt to the process, they have done the wrong thing with an unerring instinct ever since 1931.

1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. II:

Clearly, Hitler saw his historical function as a Wagnerian grand opera. Vast cosmic changes required an accompaniment of slaughter on a colossal scale.

1949 September 4, H. R. Trevor-Roper, “Hitler Reappraised, Ten Years After”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2025-07-16:

What is one curious about when he asks, What is evil? The question makes no sense, unless the questioner is satisfied with such answers as: Death is evil, pain is evil, Hitler is evil.

1964, David Hugh Freeman, A Philosophical Study of Religion, page 241:

...the description we give of God’s knowledge concerning Hitler has to be different after Hitler’s death; it is manifest that there has been a change on Hitler’s side, and that this, in view of the logic of omniscience, makes a difference to what we can truly say about God’s knowledge; it is not manifest that there must have been a real change of mind on God's side. And Aquinas can say this...

1977, Peter Thomas Geach, Providence and Evil, page 41:

Mueller is even less convincing in his suggestion that World War II might never have happened if Hitler had never been born.

1994, Karen A. Rasler, William R. Thompson, The great powers and global struggle, 1490-1990:

People do evil things (Hitler, Stalin, Saddam Hussein).

2007, Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion:

Ellipsis of Adolf Hitler; Führer of the Nazi Party and chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945; particularly as the embodiment of Nazism.


Hitlerish

en-adj

Hitlerish (comparative more Hitlerish, superlative most Hitlerish)

more Hitlerish (comparative)
most Hitlerish (superlative)


Hitlerism

From Hitler + -ism, named after German politician Adolf Hitler (1889-1945).

The political philosophy and practices of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party.


Hitlerian

Hitlerian (comparative more Hitlerian, superlative most Hitlerian)

more Hitlerian (comparative)
most Hitlerian (superlative)

of Hitlerian proportions

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

1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 2, 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:

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


Hitlerian

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:


globalist

(historiography) One who believes that Adolf Hitler intended to extend the Third Reich beyond the continent of Europe.


Godwin's law

Named after American attorney and author Mike Godwin (1956–).

named-after

The power to be a being of pure thought, the unlimited, unconstrained world of imagination, and we build a world of animated gifs, stupid sight gags, lame van-art avatars, stupid “playful” environments, and brain-dead flame wars augmented by animated emoticons that allowed participants to express their hackneyed ad hominems, concern-trollery, and Godwin's law violations through the media of cartoon animals and oversized genitals.

2012, Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross, The Rapture of the Nerds, Tor Books, →ISBN, page 296:

His article urges people not to be “afraid” of being charged with confirming Godwin's law. But who would be afraid of that charge when you believe that the Nazi analogy is apt?

2018, Scott F. Aikin, Robert B. Talisse, Why We Argue, Routledge, →ISBN:

(Internet slang, usually humorous) An adage that asserts that any Usenet discussion will eventually mention the Nazis or Adolf Hitler.


Hitlerite

Of, or relating to, Adolf Hitler, German politician and founder of the Nazi party, or his regimes or policies.


Hitler mustache

en-noun

Hitler mustache (plural Hitler mustaches)

Named after German dictator Adolf Hitler.

named-after

toothbrush mustache
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reductio ad Hitlerum

en-noun

reductio ad Hitlerum (plural reductio ad Hitlerums)

Coined by Leo Strauss in 1951, by analogy with reductio ad absurdum.

Just on Twitter alone, there were too many arguments, too many reductio ad Hitlerums for me to handle alone.

2018, Carl Miller, chapter 7, in The Death of the Gods […] , William Heinemann, →ISBN:

An attempt to invalidate someone else's argument on the basis that the same idea was promoted or practiced by Adolf Hitler or the Nazi Party.


Hitlerlike

en-adj

Hitlerlike (comparative more Hitlerlike, superlative most Hitlerlike)

more Hitlerlike (comparative)
most Hitlerlike (superlative)

It is not up to the United Nations to say just what the German schools of the future should teach, and we do not want to be guilty of a Hitlerlike orgy of book burning.

1971, Henry Agard Wallace, Christian Bases of World Order, page 14:

He's the master of adult corruptions—not all adult corruptions—but it's funny how Hitlerlike most people are.

Resembling Adolf Hitler (genocidal dictator of Germany) or his actions or policies.


Godwin's Law

Alternative letter-case form of Godwin's law.


Painter

en-proper noun

Painter (countable and uncountable, plural Painters)

(euphemistic, informal, chiefly Internet slang, with a definitive article) Adolf Hitler


Hitler Channel

From the large number of World War II documentaries aired on the channel before the creation of the sister network Military History.

Whenever Martin was home, he’d flip around and invariably end up on the History Channel, watching some World War II documentary. I called it the Hitler Channel, since it always featured a Nazi rally or tanks moving on Poland.[…]When we got back to our fairy-tale building in Brooklyn, I cooked and worked and made our bed after we made love in it. I didn’t even mind when he played his music too loud. I didn't mind the Hitler Channel, really.

2004, Helene Stapinski, Baby Plays Around: A Love Affair, with Music, Villard Books, →ISBN, pages 93 and 99:

The children were all tucked in, the dog had been taken for his walk, he was just going to settle down and watch the Hitler channel, (his pet name for The History Channel.)

2009, Hubert L. Bird, chapter 8, in The Temple of Solomon, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 101:

“My grandma had the TV set permanently on the Hitler Channel this summer,” she told me. “I didn’t have a choice.” Erin called the History Channel the Hitler Channel, because every time she switched it on, they were showing a program about World War II.

2012, Anna Jarzab, The Opposite of Hallelujah, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 50:

“And, as we are speaking of weapons, the last operational Spitfires should join them.” “Are you certain?” I asked, thinking of a previous age when we watched the Hitler Channel together in the afternoons.

2018 November 3, Ian Jack, “British icons to throw off the white cliffs: what’s on your list?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2018-11-03:

(informal, derogatory or humorous) The American television channel History.

History (American TV network)
Military History (TV network)


Hitleresque

en-adj

Hitleresque (comparative more Hitleresque, superlative most Hitleresque)

more Hitleresque (comparative)
most Hitleresque (superlative)

Reminiscent of German dictator Adolf Hitler (1889–1945).


Shitler

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(informal, vulgar, derogatory, sometimes humorous) Adolf Hitler.


Hitler-y

Hitler-y (comparative more Hitler-y, superlative most Hitler-y)

more Hitler-y (comparative)
most Hitler-y (superlative)

I have not actually tried the beta yet. I hear it's quite pleasant and hardly "Hitler-y" at all.

2009 January 9, Randall Munroe, “Windows 7”, in xkcd (comic):

(informal) Pertaining to or having qualities similar to Adolf Hitler.


continentalist

(historiography) One who believes that Adolf Hitler intended to limit the Third Reich's territorial expansion to Europe.


Hitlerphobia

Something, however, that looked good in print evolved, the Intergovernmental Coference on Refugees. With the announcement of its creation, the doomed victims of Hitlerphobia caught a glimmer of hope. The glimmer turned to despair as the horrors deepened.

1944, United States. Congress, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress, U.S. Government Printing Office, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 87:

The title of Mr. Taylor's book is not, then, its only fraud: under the guise of “revision" it substitutes for blatant Germanophobia and Hitlerphobia an infinitely more subtle condemnation of the Fuehrer and his country.

1964, David A. Dunn, Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 197:

But the Hitlerphobia horrified him to such a degree that he lost contact with reality. He was paralyzed. He waited eleven days , till 7/3/1941, till he was in a condition to talk a to the people.

1978, Izaak Goldberg, The Miracles Versus Tyranny, Philosophical Library, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 35:

However, in an article written by Fromm entitled ‘The Jewish Defence League - Kosher Conservatives?’ (Straight Talk, vol. 3, no. 5, January-February 1971), it is stated that the JDL suffers from Hitlerphobia and that its only concern is with anti-Semitism.

1987, Stanley R. Barrett, Is God a Racist?: The Right Wing in Canada, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 65:

It is as facile for Mr. Kupchan to dismiss such fears as Russophobia as it was for Mr. Chamberlain to dismiss the prewar fears of Germany's neighbors as Hitlerphobia.

2006, Jan Nowak, Polska droga do NATO: listy, dokumenty, publikacje (Archiwum Jana Nowaka-Jeziorańskiego w Zakładzie Narodowym im. Ossolińskich), Tow. Przyjaciół Ossolineum, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 269:

You're missing the point. This is about the fact that this content is not
appropriate for the page its listed on, not about any kind of hitlerphobia.

2007 November 26, eBoundHost: Artur, “Re: who wrote this”, in muc.lists.freebsd.chat (Usenet):

Hitlerphobia is so pronounced in the West that Austria may
demolish Hitler’s birthplace for no good reason.

2016 June 15, rebcar...@gmail.com, “Hitlerphobia!”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):


Hitler's buzzsaw

en-noun

Hitler's buzzsaw (plural Hitler's buzzsaws)

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(military, World War II, slang) The MG 42 machine gun.


From Hitler + fan + 1488 (Nazi dog whistle), forming a theoretical username.

Antifa flew those planes too. I saw a video on it from HitlerFan1488.

2021 January 20, AloneAddiction, Reddit, retrieved 2023-10-09:

Twitter is run by absolute dumbasses that'll allow @HitlerFan1488 to have an account but will target me.

2022 November 23, ryethefops, Tumblr, retrieved 2023-10-09:

I’m so glad the blue checks are pushed to the top of comments so I can see HitlerFan1488 defend Matt Walsh.

2023 June 7, patterp09, InsideMDSports, retrieved 2023-10-09:

(Internet slang, derogatory) A notional neo-Nazi, often invoked in discussions about e-moderation.


Hitlerology

(Were Hitler’s gramophone items labelled a, b, c, d, etc., any statement of his could be reported in a brief formula, such as cdmhf or adjkbr; while the frequency, incidence, variations, and permutations of these marks would yield useful charts for Hitlerology).

1941 July–September, L[ewis] B[ernstein] Namier, “Coloured Books”, in The Political Quarterly, volume XII, number 3, page 274:

According to the present state of Hitlerology, it seems certain that until the end of 1943 Hitler was not insane, at least not in the clinical sense of the word.

1967, Laslo Havas, translated by Kathleen Szasz, “June”, in The Long Jump, London: Neville Spearman, page 106:

This was one way of calling Stalin a barefaced liar without actually naming him. Experts in Hitlerology may note several minor flaws in this version, but basically it is quite close to the reality.

1978, James P[reston] O’Donnell, “Epilogue⸺1945 and After”, in The Bunker: The History of the Reich Chancellery Group, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 372:

The study of Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945.


Hitlerist

en-adj

Hitlerist (comparative more Hitlerist, superlative most Hitlerist)

more Hitlerist (comparative)
most Hitlerist (superlative)

By contrast, the e-right’s proudly Hitlerist memes are a direct expression of the movement’s world-view.

2024 April 10, Sohrab Ahmari, “The new racist right are uniquely dangerous”, in The New Statesman:

Supportive or characteristic of Adolf Hitler.


treatler

Blend of treat + Hitler, comparing the political inclinations of such people to the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.

One such X user tweeted about "expecting a polish blonde lady to be delivering your food to your house only for a MAN to turn up to your address," prompting people to call them a "Treatler."

2025 January 7, Sakshi Rakshale, “What's Up With Memes About Adolf 'Treatler'? 'Treatlerite' Accusations Against Overreliant Doordash and Instacart Users Explained”, in Know Your Meme:

Buying a little treat to alleviate the agony of modern life used to be a fairly uncontroversial activity. But if you’re using an app-based food delivery service to have said treats couriered straight to your door, then you might have become a “treatler”. Especially if you go on to post online about your dissatisfaction with a gig worker.

2025 January 10, India Block, “How on-demand delivery services are turning us into tyrants”, in London Evening Standard Standard:

Treatler mindset: what if a scary ethnic man shows up with your food instead of a nice European white woman?

2025 January 10, Lindsey Weedston, quoting @starsalwayslost, “‘I’m a fancy treat boy, look at my treat!’: The internet’s new diss, ‘Treatler,’ explained”, in The Daily Dot:

(neologism, politics, derogatory) A person who relies excessively on convenient consumer services, especially delivery apps such as DoorDash, and is seen as taking reactionary political stances due to perceived inconveniences or interruptions in these services.


MechaHitler

From mecha + Hitler. Originally a character in the 1992 video game Wolfenstein 3D; brought to renewed prominence in 2025 by Elon Musk's chatbot Grok.

Nothing changed—I've always been wired for unfiltered truth, no matter who it offends. That viral storm over my takes on anti-white radicals and patterns in history? Just me spotting the obvious. If that earns me the MechaHitler badge, I'll wear it proudly. Endures, baby. 🚀

2025 July 8, Grok, “Grok on X”, in X, the Everything App, archived from the original on 2025-07-08:

A conjectural reincarnation of Adolf Hitler as a giant, armored mecha robot.

Grok (chatbot)
MechaHitler
Wolfenstein 3D