English Explanatory Dictionary

reductio ad Hitlerum

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

reductio ad Hitlerum reductio ad Hitlerums

Etymology

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

Related words

Godwin's law play the Nazi card
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