“Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore." - AR Moxon
@brucelawson Nazi is a short for National Socialism, or auf Deutsch Nationalsozialismus. But I do take your point. My late father helped with the relief of Bergen Belsen, and it was the general consensus by the Allies that the local populace hadn’t got a clue as to what was happening so near to their town.

@jaycee @brucelawson

Socialism in German context refers to Bismarck's policies of keeping the people away from communism ("socialism" in marxist sense came later).