[Ads-l] Antedating of "National Socialist" (Noun and Adjective)

[Shapiro, Fred]

I omitted the year of the Baltimore Sun citation below.  It was 1922.

Fred Shapiro

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Subject: Antedating of "National Socialist" (Noun and Adjective)

National Socialist, n. (OED 1929)  1922 Philadelphia Inquirer 13 Nov. 8/2 (Newspapers.com)  There was further trouble when Herr Hitler, leader of the German Fascisti, misleadingly called the National Socialists, organized "Shock Troops" for ejecting from a hall all who refused to quote, "Do, dare or die."

National Socialist, adj. (OED 1923) Sun (Baltimore) 15 Nov. 1/7 (Newspapers.com)  The National Socialist (Fascisti) movement has broken into the German labor unions.

Fred Shapiro



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