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Origin of the word "Nazi"

Sep 24, 2004 03:03 PM
by Bart Lidofsky


Now that the Jew haters have been heard from, one might consider two things:

1) "Sozi" was a nickname for socialists in Germany.
2) "Nazi" was a takeoff on this.

Check out http://www.etymonline.com/n1etym.htm for more detail.

Bart





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