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Hitler was not left.

• tinco 14y ago
  http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Could_Hitler_be_described_as_right-wing_or_left-wing http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Could_Hitler_be_described_as_right...
  • onli 14y ago
    Sorry, random rambling on the internet doesn't count. The nsdap had a left, socialist wing. Most of the members of that wing were executed, which is a good indicatior on how much Hitler himself agreed with them. He himself didn't had many political views one could describe as left, that there are similarities in the methods is mainly a coincidence. Your linked article is plainly wrong in that regard, the nationalization of industries for example didn't really happen after the Kapital agreed to cooperate (and ideologically, nationalization of industries in a facist regime is something else entirely than in a communist one). For a good article about the subject, read http://www.h-ref.de/organisationen/nsdap/nazis-sozialisten.php http://www.h-ref.de/organisationen/nsdap/nazis-sozialisten.p.... Anyway, I don't think we should discuss this any further here, it is OT.
    • tinco 14y ago
      You could've just said, "Hitler was not left, despite being in a nationalist socialist party he focused mainly on national goals and left the capitalists for what they were." My german is not so good, so I read the wikipedia article on the history of the socialist part of the nsdap and it seems you are right, there was not much of a leftist in him.