It was an evolution. The party started as an anti-capitalist worker's party with a left-wing manifesto and parts of the party wanted to collaborate with the com

It was an evolution. The party started as an anti-capitalist worker's party with a left-wing manifesto and parts of the party wanted to collaborate with the communist party. However, Hitler jettisoned the left-wing aspects, cozied up to the capitalists and aristocrats to fund the growth of the party and reshaped the party inspired by Mussolini's fascists. The early socialist manifestos were an embarrassment for the party as it grew and it never attempted any of what that early party sought like disbanding the army, expropriating land from owners etc. Here is the the early manifesto. The only thing recognisable from what the Nazi party eventually became is the anti-semitism: http://www.scrapbookpages.com/DachauScrapbook/25Points.html http://www.scrapbookpages.com/DachauScrapbook/25Points.html