Hitler was a NAZI, nothing else.
Svetlana,
Bull(shit) as in nonsense. Sorry for the expletive.
allusion
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noun
an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
Allusion, because the ‘socialist’ in NSDAP was purely there to attract votes from the working class, as long as Hitler/NSDAP needed it.
Your writing does put a bit of a new twist on an old US rightwing trope
(extensively commented at https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Hitler_and_socialism linked previously)
Did not know that it was popular among Russians in Ireland too, so I learned something.
Your way of writing is interesting,so I decided to back my short answer up with more words & citations.
You are arguing that Hitler was in some way a socialist or had socialist principles.You wrote:
Nazi racism was driven not only by the festering anti-Semitism already present in Germany, but by the socialist principles of the Nazi Party.
Socialist was added to DAP, the original name of Hitlers party, creating NSDAP.
Who was behind DAP?
The DAP was founded in Munich in the hotel “Fürstenfelder Hof” on January 5, 1919 by Anton Drexler.[1] It developed out of the Freier Arbeiterausschuss für einen guten Frieden (Free Workers’ Committee for a Good Peace) league, a branch of which Drexler had founded in 1918.[1] Thereafter in 1918, Karl Harrer (a journalist and member of the Thule Society), convinced Drexler and several others to form the Politischer Arbeiterzirkel (Political Workers’ Circle).[1] The members met periodically for discussions with themes of nationalism and antisemitism directed against the Jews.[1] Drexler was encouraged to form the DAP in December 1918 by his mentor, Dr. Paul Tafel. Tafel was a leader of the Alldeutscher Verband (Pan-Germanist Union), a director of the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg, and a member of the Thule Society. Drexler’s wish was for a political party which was both in touch with the masses and nationalist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Workers%27_Party
Even in that short blip of Nazi history, you already see that a rather wealthy capitalist funded & helped found DAP
Hitler & DAP
In July 1919 he was appointed Verbindungsmann (intelligence agent) of an Aufklärungskommando (reconnaissance commando) of the Reichswehr, to influence other soldiers and to infiltrate the German Workers’ Party (DAP). While monitoring the activities of the DAP, Hitler became attracted to founder Anton Drexler’s anti-Semitic, nationalist, anti-capitalist, and anti-Marxist ideas.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Workers%27_Party
So Why NSDAP?
That works in the same way that conservatives of the same time called themselves ‘Christlich Sozial’ (CSU/CDU, the conservatives in Germany still use that naming).
(…) in an attempt to make the party more broadly appealing to larger segments of the population, the DAP was renamed the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) on February 24.[13][14]
(Source for #13 Kershaw, Ian (2008). Hitler: A Biography. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978–0–393–06757–6.Kershaw 2008, page. 87.
Source for #14 Zentner, Christian; Bedurftig, Friedemann (1997) [1991]. The Encyclopedia of The Third Reich. New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 978–0–3068079–3–0. page 629)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Workers%27_Party
It just sounded cool & attracted voters.
“Why not vote for Hitler?
He just has National in front of Socialist”
That was the arguing used, related to me by my grandfather, further corroborating the above.
As any skilled politician he used the word in his speeches.
Yes, Hitler hated Jews and he hated Bolschewists & Marxists, in fact everyone left of center.
So lets see about the socialist principles
Before 1934 some in the party did promote anti-capitalist and socialist ideas, such as profit-sharing, nationalization and old-age benefits, but these were merely tolerated by Hitler as he gathered support, dropped once he secured power and often later executed, such as Gregor Strasser. There was no socialist redistribution of wealth or land under Hitler — although some property changed hands thanks to looting and invasion — and while both industrialists and workers were courted, it was the former who benefitted and the latter who found themselves the target of empty rhetoric.
https://www.thoughtco.com/was-adolf-hitler-a-socialist-1221367
On Strasser & his followers:
The only strand of Nazism that could be referred to as left-wing (ie. pro-working class in nature), were all killed off (with a handful of conservative dissidents) in what we all know as the Night of the Long Knives.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Hitler_and_socialism
So what happened to all the Socialists/Marxists/Social Democrats?
If the Nazis were following ‘socialist principles’ you would expect that practically none of those would wind up in prison, or concentration camps, wouldn’t you? Not what happened:
Camps were located in Oranienburg, north of Berlin; Esterwegen, near Hamburg; Dachau, northwest of Munich; and Lichtenburg, in Saxony. By the end of July 1933, almost 27,000 people — virtually all of them political prisoners — were incarcerated in these camps. http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/people/victims.htm
On the betrayal of socialist ideals:
You said:
They were anti-capitalists, just like modern “progressives” and they believed that the Jews were the puppet masters of international capitalism. This was evidence to them that the Bolsheviks were not real socialists, because the Bolsheviks included Jews amongst their number, and the Russian socialists were therefore betraying socialist ideals to the capitalist enemy. Hence the “Jewish / Bolshevik” conspiracy that Hitler was obsessed with.
So lets see who financed Hitler & NSDAP
Remember who founded DAP? A wealthy business man, Paul Tafel.
But it does not stop there:
John Pierpont Morgan, American Banker, Helene Bechstein a rich aristocrat, Benito Mussolini (no explanation needed), John D. Rockefeller(known too); Fritz Thyssen (German Steel), Henry Ford, Gustav Krupp…
(From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_wealth_and_income#Nazi_Party_funds More in German: http://sauber.50webs.com/kapital/ a summary of Der finanzierte Aufstieg des Adolf H. Ueberreuter, Wien 2002, ISBN 978–3–8000–3890–9.)
That is a merry band of Socialists, right?
All of those got to keep their wealth under the Nazi regime & Hitler, further backing up earlier citations.
Hindenburg who helped Hitler into power, was a staunch conservative as well, having his own nationalistic agenda & worried sick that communists/socialists would dominate Reichstag.
After Hindenburgs death new legislation mulled earlier with Hindenburgs consent,was put forward to vote upon, who voted for it & who against?
(…)the 96-member Social Democratic Party of Germany was Hitler’s main opposition in the Reichstag, and the only political party that attempted to halt the laws that established him as dictator and brought down the Weimar Republic. In fact, all of the ideological predecessors of today’s conservative and classically liberal parties voted unanimously for the law, while the SPD voted unanimously against despite the presence of SA ‘guards’ in the building.[2][3] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Hitler_and_socialism
His principles were pureness of BLOOD & SOIL & power
Why pure blood?
Because in his mind the Germans/Aryans were superior to all other nations/ethnicities. (Does remind one of various other folks, doesn’t it?)
Hitler & the Nazis are as much a ‘Socialist’ as the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea is ‘democratic’.
PS:
Bonus: European fascists
Dollfuß, Horthy, Franco, Mussolini, Ustasha, Hitler, … none of those had any truck with socialism, all of them were staunchly rightwing, all of them were fought by leftists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerical_fascism
History teachers know all this