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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Nazi is short for Nationalsozialist though. The party wasn't called Nazi, the members were.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It was and is literally called the Nazi Party https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party

    The Nazi Party,[b] officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I am German. We don't call it that. Nobody says Nazipartei, it's NSDAP. Nazi Party is an English expression and has nothing to do with the etymology of the word Nazi.

    Nazi is short for Nationalsozialist. https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi (the english version of this article points to the ideology of nazism, the original is about the term. Use a translator if you're interested.)

    It was coined in the 1920s and it's not an American term. You call the party Nazi Party because it was the party of the nazis, not the other way around.

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