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Nazi was a short name for the name Ignatius, which was commonly used to mean a "dumb farmer from Bavaria", much like a hick is in the USA (which is short for Richard).
Hitler's opponents realized they could fittingly shorten the party's name Nationalsozialistiche Deutsche Arbeiterpartei to Nazi and insult Hitler. So the Nazis wouldn't actually call themselves "Nazi" and would have thought of it as an insult!
Got my info from this book I'm reading, "The Etymologicon".
The example the book gives is if some right-winger created a party in the USA called "Red States for the Next America".