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There doesn\'t seem to be a large emphasis on the origin of the word Nazi which from what I\'ve glanced, the Nazi Party rarely if it at all used that word to describe themselves as (most of the time, they used National Socialist instead). [[http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Nazi I found this online, an etymology on the word Nazi]]. This what it had to say:
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There doesn\\\'t seem to be a large emphasis on the origin of the word Nazi (as in the coinage of the abbreviation term) which from what I\\\'ve glanced, the Nazi Party rarely if it at all used that word to describe themselves as (most of the time, they used National Socialist instead). [[http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Nazi I found this online, an etymology on the word Nazi]]. This what it had to say:
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[[quoteblock]]The 24th edition of Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (2002) says the word Nazi was favored in southern Germany (supposedly from c. 1924) among opponents of National Socialism because the nickname Nazi, Naczi (from the masc. proper name Ignatz, German form of Ignatius) was used colloquially to mean \
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[[quoteblock]]The 24th edition of Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (2002) says the word Nazi was favored in southern Germany (supposedly from c. 1924) among opponents of National Socialism because the nickname Nazi, Naczi (from the masc. proper name Ignatz, German form of Ignatius) was used colloquially to mean \\\"a foolish person, clumsy or awkward person.\\\" Ignatz was a popular name in Catholic Austria, and according to one source in World War I Nazi was a generic name in the German Empire for the soldiers of Austria-Hungary.
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The NSDAP for a time attempted to adopt the Nazi designation as what the Germans call a \\\"despite-word,\\\" but they gave this up, and the NSDAP is said to have generally avoided the term. Before 1930, party members had been called in English National Socialists, which dates from 1923. The use of Nazi Germany, Nazi regime, etc., was popularized by German exiles abroad. From them, it spread into other languages, and eventually was brought back to Germany, after the war. In the USSR, the terms national socialist and Nazi were said to have been forbidden after 1932, presumably to avoid any taint to the good word socialist. Soviet literature refers to fascists.
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There\\\'s not much else talking about where or how the word Nazi comes from aside this one, so I cannot say if it\\\'s fully accurate. But it does make sense if the shortened abbreviation was originally used as an insult by political opponents.
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The NSDAP for a time attempted to adopt the Nazi designation as what the Germans call a \\\"despite-word,\\\" but they gave this up, and the NSDAP is said to have generally avoided the term. Before 1930, party members had been called in English National Socialists, which dates from 1923. The use of Nazi Germany, Nazi regime, etc., was popularized by German exiles abroad. From them, it spread into other languages, and eventually was brought back to Germany, after the war. In the USSR, the terms national socialist and Nazi were said to have been forbidden after 1932, presumably to avoid any taint to the good word socialist. Soviet literature refers to fascists.
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There\\\'s not much else talking about where or how the word Nazi comes from aside this one, so I cannot say if it\\\'s fully accurate. But it does make sense if the shortened abbreviation was originally used as an insult by political opponents.
