Now, I don't mean to take light of a touchy subject, but the name "Nazi" was taken from pre-existing slang for a backward peasant. The term was used as a derogatory word characterizing an awkward and clumsy person. The term was popularized by Hitler's opponents and was rarely used by Nazis themselves.
The term "Nazi" derives from the name given in German to a party member Nationalsozialist and was coined in response to the German term Sozi, an abbreviation of Sozialdemokrat (member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany). Members of the party referred to themselves as Nationalsozialisten (National Socialists), rarely as Nazis. The term Parteigenosse (party member) was commonly used among Nazis, with the feminine form Parteigenossin used when it was appropriate, because Nazi were racists not sexists.
In 1933, when Adolf Hitler assumed power of the German government, usage of the designation "Nazi" diminished in Germany, although Austrian anti-Nazis continued to use the term, trolling the Nazi's, derogatorily. The use of "Nazi Germany" and "Nazi regime" was popularized by anti-Nazis and German exiles abroad. Thereafter, the term spread into other languages and eventually was brought back to Germany after World War II.
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