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Ah jaysus not the old "Hitler was a socialist" guff again.

The hallmarks you mention are not exclusive to the left or right, they are authoritarian. Authoritarians can be far left or far right.

There is none. There is no way in hell that the nazis were socialist.

a) There was no nationalisation of private assets, a hallmark of socialist regimes. On the contrary, Hitler went out of his way to ensure that companies like Thyssen or Krupp retained all of their assets. Even when the nazis started seizing Jewish-owned companies, as well as the businesses of individuals critical to the regime, these businesses were not absorbed into the state, but redistributed amongst those loyal to the party.

b) As soon as they seized power in 1933, the nazis set about dismantling labour unions, going out of their way to shut them down and imprisoning labour leaders en masse. A new nationwide labour union loyal to the nazi party was set up, but this was a mere fig leaf and had far less power than even the weakest of the pre-1933 unions. Workers were disenfranchised on a large scale as a matter of policy.

c) The party went out of its way to eliminate anti-capitalist elements within its ranks, such as Georg & Otto Strasser, or Ernst Röhm, who had advocated for a more revolutionary approach, including large scale business seizures and nationalisations. One of the two aims of the "night of the long knives" in 1934 was specifically to eliminate these elements.

d) Hitler had been unequivocally anti-leftist since the early 1920s. That's no supposition on my part, he wrote as such in Mein Kampf. The name NSDAP, that is National Socialist German Workers' Party, was chosen as a deliberate attempt to poach away voters from traditional left wing parties such as SPD or KPD, rather than serving as a declaration of political principles. Hitler was staunchly opposed to this choice of name, by the way.

Those are just a few highlight examples. There are many more to reinforce the point that the Nazi=Left story is just a lie!

None of these aspects are unique to leftist movements. They are hallmarks of totalitarian regimes regardless of political alignment, popping up in Peron's Argentina, Pinochet's Chile, Franco's Spain, and a whole host of other fascist and fascist-adjacent regimes all over the world.

Attempting to paint the NSDAP as a left-wing party is a well-known, and thoroughly debunked, fascist dog whistle that flies in the face of historic facts. Reading even these two lines of clueless drivel killed off more brain cells than an all-night booze binge, but without any of the fun and says more about you and your perverted view of the world than about history.

They shared those characteristics with the fascist states of that era, too.

You're seriously dragging that "Nazis were left wing" shite up again?

That's probably why they imprisoned imprisoned socialists and trade unionists first, yeah?

It's not an "alternative view", it's "bollocks". Part and parcel with holocaust revisionism. Next you'll be telling us Churchill started the 2nd world war.

"Deregulation" and "free markets" just means the ordinary Joe gets screwed so the City can make extraordinary profits. See: electricity privatisation, gas privatisation, water privatisation, rail privatisation… essentials of life run for private profit and usually with massive taxpayer subsidy thrown in. Regulation is always inadequate and usually captured.

Nothing progressive about that