The definition will now state that many feel that this usage of the word “trivializes the terrible crimes of the Nazis of Germany.”

Foxman had asked the publisher to “rethink your decision” after learning the forthcoming edition of the dictionary would include the added definition of “Nazi” as a “person who is fanatically dedicated to or seeks to control a specified activity” or practice, as in “tobacco Nazis trying to ban smoking.”

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