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Not really, considering "nazi" was a kind of insult in the first place. They only called themselves National Socialists. Nazi was used because it sounds like "Ignatz" which is basically a German hillbilly name.
Yes. "Nazi" is what the Jewish propagandists called them. In TV and film, they keep calling them that. If you look at media from around the world, they are "Germans" or "German army". WWII soldiers usually called them "Jerries" if not "Germans", but new media skews toward "Nazi".
When I was in cadets, we used these wooden targets with WW2-era German soldiers painted on them to look like they were charging at you; they were for speed training, as someone would hold it up for only three seconds while you tried to shoot it (been on both sides of that.)
We called these "Jumping Jerries".
... huh, not one photograph of this thing out there on the web. Must have stopped using them years ago, I guess.
This guy, maybe?
Yeah, that's him! Though ours had more of a blue colour scheme going on, iirc.