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> ... popularised by German exiles outside the country, but not in Germany. Here are ~18k uses 1929-1933; the top hits do seem mainly to come from lefty public

> ... popularised by German exiles outside the country, but not in Germany. Here are ~18k uses 1929-1933; the top hits do seem mainly to come from lefty publications, but it'd be news to me that places like Bad Godesberg, Detmold and Witten are not "in Germany": https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/search/newspaper?query=nazi&fromDay=1&fromMonth=1&fromYear=1929&toDay=31&toMonth=12&toYear=1933 https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/search/newspaper... After 1933 there is a distinct drop in published use of the term, and those who continue to use it seem to be in exile, so I guess the Nazis (like their modern descendants?) didn't care for the pejorative?

defrost 3y ago
It certainly seems to have morphed early into a slur like many things that start out as a handy shorthand, less popular in Germany (at the time) than outside but still in wide enough use to be understood. It all meshes with the claim that it was used as a slur in occupied Holland at the time of the OP story, the cartoonist in the attic, dspite the GP comment assertion that the term never existed until some post war "modern" usage.