User blog comment:John Breasly/Request: Re-creation of the "Grammar SS" (Passed)/@comment-3178344-20120115213008/@comment-3242795-20120115213358

The Nazis are not the SS. The SS worked for Adolf Hitler, because the SS was the Secret Police, or Secret Service, of Germany, thus it had to work for the Führer of Germany, or the Third Reich, as it was known.

A Grammar Nazi is not a Nazi. It is a term for someone who puts grammar first in everything that involves words. Garland gave a description:

Nazi - a person who is fanatically dedicated to or seeks to control a specified activity, practice, etc. ex: a jazz nazi who disdains other forms of music.