Yes, understood. so compliment was wrong word but the general thing i meant is what you and I both said. The toughness of german soldiers, and they were powerful enemies.

No, soviet people hated german invaders but knew that they was very powerfull enemies. Word nemzy is just russian original own appelation of all german nation. It is the same type of word "yankee", which some nations uses to name people of USA.

Forgive me if i'm wrong Brother, it almost sounds to me like it maybe a compliment to the toughness of the German soldier?

A transcription of "Nemzy" is something like [n'emtsy]. Sign "Y" in the end of word must be pronounced like very tough and clunk sound, like somebody punch you in stomach)

Indeed Brother you are correct. I appreciate the extra information not everyone knows these details. I was aware of all of them except "nemzy" That one is new to me.

Soviet men never called germans like "Jerry". "Jerry" was american and british word. Soviet people called forces of Third Reich like "german-faschists", "nazis", nemzy - which means german people, allso used word Fritz.