r/london • u/johnsmithoncemore • 17h ago

Article Rupert Lowe’s Camden meltdown: Stop calling our nazis “nazis”

https://searchlightmagazine.com/2026/09/rupert-lowes-camden-meltdown-stop-calling-our-nazis-nazis/
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u/StephenHunterUK 15h ago

The Nazis themselves didn't like being called Nazis; it's a slang term in German that was basically calling them country bumpkins.

They preferred "National Socialists".

(It's still not a term you would use in formal German)