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rightist

DEFINITIONS OF: rightist

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adj believing in or supporting tenets of the political right

Synonyms:
right-wing
right
of or belonging to the political or intellectual right

n a member of a right wing political party

Synonyms:
right-winger
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Karl Adolf Eichmann
Austrian who became the Nazi official who administered the concentration camps where millions of Jews were murdered during World War II (1906-1962)
Paul Joseph Goebbels
German propaganda minister in Nazi Germany who persecuted the Jews (1897-1945)
Hermann Wilhelm Goring
German politician in Nazi Germany who founded the Gestapo and mobilized Germany for war (1893-1946)
Walther Richard Rudolf Hess
Nazi leader who in 1941 flew a solo flight to Scotland in an apparent attempt to negotiate a peace treaty with Great Britain but was imprisoned for life (1894-1987)
Heinrich Himmler
German Nazi who was chief of the SS and the Gestapo and who oversaw the genocide of six million Jews (1900-1945)
Adolf Hitler
German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945)
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fascist
an adherent of fascism or other right-wing authoritarian views
monarchist, royalist
an advocate of the principles of monarchy
Tory
a supporter of traditional political and social institutions against the forces of reform; a political conservative
Blackshirt
a member of the Italian fascist party before World War II
Cavalier, Royalist
a royalist supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War
falangist, phalangist
a Spanish member of General Franco's political party
fascista
an Italian fascist under Mussolini
German Nazi, Nazi
a German member of Adolf Hitler's political party
Orleanist
a supporter of the Orleans branch of the Bourbons that was descended from a younger brother of Louis XIV
Type of:
conservative, conservativist
a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
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