Well, my evidence was the Goebbels diaries in the good doctor's native German language, not a translation.
This satisfied the criteria asked for by Roberto Muehlenkamp, a native German speaker who is fluent in several languages and practices law in Portugal, and contributes to the infamous Holocaust Controversies blog. Roberto disagreed with my take and asked me to find an example of a prominent Nazi using the German phrase
Wir Nazis (we Nazis) or something similar.
And
voila, Dr. Goebbels clearly does use the term "Nazi" with affection and pride.
For example, in the privacy of his personal journals ─ which were preserved for posterity per his orders by being photographed onto glass microfiche ─ the Gauleiter of Berlin and Reichs Propaganda Minister vents his spleen about Nazi colleagues like (SS Lieutenant General) SS-Obergruppenführer Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart, who was the former Chancellor of Austria, and by then a National Socialist official (
Reichskommissar) in the German-occupied Netherlands, as being too soft on the Dutch Resistance. Dr. Goebbels laments,
"He is no real Nazi."
The victorious Allies at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg evidently did not agree with Dr. Goebbels that
Seyss-Inquart was too soft as a "Nazi" occupying official because he was hanged on October 16th, 1946.
