I always find it interesting to track the history and usages of particular words. The previous poster is probably right about the word's etymology (or history), but there are sources that claim another (although very closely related) history of the word.
One process that may have been used to create the word is "clipping," a process in which one part of the word, the beginning or (in this case) the end, is chopped off. In the case of "Nazi," the final syllables "-onal" may have been clipped, turning "National" into "Nazi."
The second process that may have been used is combination of "clipping" and "blending." Some respectable sources (such as the Online Etymology Dictionary; see the link below) claim that the first two words in the name of the party -- "National Socialist" -- were shorted (or clipped) to "Na-" and "Sozi". The two shortend versions were then combined (or "blended"), according to these sources.
Either way, the word's meaning (its "semantic range") has grown considerably in the last few decades of the 20th century. The popular comedy show Seinfeld introduced us to "Soup Nazi," for example, and women activists for equal rights are sometimes still derisively called "feminazis."
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