Well, in australia and in england, the word is sometimes used in the way zach has explained. exactly in that manner. without any intention of making the nazis of hitler somehow amusing. I often hear people at work in the lift saying 'she can be such a nazi!', after the security lady had demanded they show their pass rather than scurry by...they aren't mocking the jews, or smiling with hitler's gestapo, they are using a word that has morphed, over time, and now includes ' nasty, aggressive, vindictive, ruthless' in its definitions. And it is not always used in a strictly serious way. Sometimes, more along the lines of 'Wicked'. People can shout and scream about it, but some words change and expand meanings over time. For instance, it always bothers me to hear someone tell me that something is 'sick'...meaning instantly to them: amazing, when to me it meant for so many years solely that someone was ill....So Zach is correct. Its often used for the definition he gave, with no connection intended or taken, with the SS and their mates...