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> The Z in Nazi is for "sozialistische" === socialist

No, it's not. Emphatically, demonstrably not.

Ignoring your other stuff about attempting to make the tired "Nazis were socialists, it's in their name, see?" argument, which is just Wolfgang-Pauli-levels of "not even wrong", the "z" in Nazi comes from the German pronunciation of "National".



Yeah, it didn't begin as a shortening, but an insult pun, which is why Hitler banned the term after gaining power.

https://chroniclesmagazine.org/society-culture/the-strange-o...




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