I am going to try to explain where the word "Nazi" comes from.
It is as plain as a pikestaff to a German-speaking person but I
doubt if I have ever come across an English speaking person who
"gets" it. Jonah Goldberg probably gets it but Yiddish is a
German dialect so he has a head start. OK: The first thing to
note is that Hitler's political party was called (in English)
the "National Socialist German Workers' Party". And the curious
thing is that the word "National" is spelled exactly the same in
German as in English. So in German the party was called the:
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei. "National" is
in fact a borrowing from English/French. It's spelled the same
in French too. But it is PRONOUNCED differently in the three
countries. Germans pronounce it (approximately) as
"nartsionarl". But a German word pronounced that way would not
be spelled that way. It would be spelled as "Nazional". German
has strict spelling rules (unlike English) so that is obvious in
German. So "Nazi" is simply th