The above is a tidy "textbook definition" that tells you almost nothing.

If you read the "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" as I recently did, and try to get an idea of what these people believed, you may still be confused, as I am. Maybe if I read it a second time....

It should not be forgotten that "nazi" is shorthand slang for "National Socialist", which ought to concern anyone who is busy agitating for a socialist agenda, but doesn't seem to.

Whatever the case, these people were fanatical and dangerous. I get worried whenever present day socialists become dogmatic and convinced that they know what is best for everyone, and begin to take on a view that the "end justifies the means". Thus is nazi totalitarianism reborn.