I have another question. Leah and I watched The Big Lebowski, again, the other day (Brenda have you watched it yet?) and it got me thinking about Nazis.
Walter Sobchak: Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.
Why did the (German) National Socialist Party, otherwise known as Nazis, have Socialist in their title if they hated communists so much? Or did they just hate USSR? I know that communism and socialism isn’t technically the same thing but I don’t think we really need to split hairs or get into semantics. Further, if they had correctly labeled themselves as the National Facist Party do you think we would call them Nafis? Where does Nazi come from anyway?
Wikipedia says “Nazi” is derived from the German word for National Socialists. Nazi’s almost never referred to themselves as Nazi’s but as National Socialists.
So what you are saying is that we might have called them Nafis…
If we had called them Nafis, surely, we would have won the war much sooner. I mean, come on, what a silly name that would have been. Hardly a way to strike fear into the hearts of your enemies.
Nope. Haven’t watched it yet. The F-word-riddled youtube clip I saw here scared me off. :blush_tb: