I wrote this in another thread:
Nazis were not socialists. They did not believe in
government control of the means of production or nationalization of any industries. The Nazis believed in private property ownership and private ownership of businesses.
Most people incorrectly assume because they called themselves "National Socialists" that it means they had something to do with 'Socialism'. They can call themselves anything they want. If they are not for public ownership of industry and property, they are not Socialists.
Generally, right wingers want to try to distance themselves from the Nazis because to people who understand economics and politics, it is obvious that Nazism is the result of one tilting too far to the ideologial right. Republicans often try to head that off by claiming the Nazis were "Socialists" and using the proof of their name. Dont be fooled by this.
Hitler himself said (as quoted by wikipedia):
"Nazism "has nothing to do with Marxian Socialism... Marxism is anti-property; true Socialism is not." He stated "I absolutely insist on protecting private property... we must encourage private initiative".
Again, if you believe in Private property ownership and private ownership of business and industry, and the Nazis absolutely believed in those things, then you are not what we think of Socialists today at all.
