QUOTE (Sengir @ Dec 19 2015, 09:35 AM)

Just do a google search for the word, what does the world's biggest database of word->content associations yield?
well, so far in the first 3 pages, nothing particularly associating it with the SS, the holocaust, mass murders, concentration camps, experimentation on humans, etc.
there are a few video games and board games (some of which are WW II, some not afaict). a miniatures company, a musician of some kind, numerous definitions (which as far as i can tell mention the military tactics but don't particularly relate them to war crimes).
and a few links using the word to refer to a rapid heavy assault on an opposing force, naturally. i mean, that *is* the definition.
and a few things related to world war II in general (including a book that seems to be talking about the history of hitler... probably the closest thing to associating the word to anything other than the military tactic, though i suspect the author or publisher just thought it sounded more exciting. could be wrong there, i certainly haven't read the book)
so, uhh... yeah, looks like the rest of the world seems to have moved on, as far as i can tell. certainly there is a connection to world war II (particularly 1941-42) and germany taking over most of europe. but nothing conclusively linking it to anything more than the military strategy that i can see, and definitely people using it for other things.
as far as i can tell, everyone else seems to have moved on. there's no particular stigma associated with the word (at least, not for english-speaking regions of the world) anywhere else that i can see. it's probably only a thing in germany.