Interesting, I didn't know this but can see it being derogatory while they were struggling for power... then, like the peasant slaughtering Soviets with the hammer and sickle... they adapted it as their own using the double meaning of the people, original meaning, and the proper initials for who and what they were under Hitler... and the thousand years, etc. National Socialists are what they were at the level one encountered them.
Thank you, was hoping for your input. I see perfectly the fit from the translation to awkward, clumsy, possibly in application to backward peasant. How interesting is all this. NAZI as 'we' hear it as a word is of course an acronym, like radar. With the periods separating it is not the word... a bit of tongue in cheek that must be understood to be appreciated.
One of them.This is your favourite German word?
Is your favourite English word horse poo?
In general, commonly used German cuss words or epithets tend to focus more on animals (Hund, Kuh, Schwein) than on the sexual or excretory (as in common in English).
Goes from kaputt-putt-putt to ka---------(silence).That's what you say when the engine goes Kaputt in mid flight.
Imagine my disappointment finding that Vee-Dubs don't actually come packed with "feigenwolkchen mit musik".
