You see this furphy from time to time and I guess it depends on how far the person stating it from the schoolyard and whatever leftist leaning teaching lied to the poor kid in history class...
- Hitler stated he was a socialist - Hitler ran for election on a platform of socialism - Hitler implemented socialist policies when his national socialist party managed to gain political power - Hitler put in place and expanded a massive welfare state - Hitler's Germany was one of centralized economic planning and control particularly of industrial capacity and of course as long as you have control you dont need ownership - Hitler's initial comrades-in-arms were the soviet communists until he decided that invasion and plunder was a better strategy quite typical of throat-cutting leftists - Hitler Germany was characterized my massive state controlled and directed mega-proects like the autobahns and the volkswagan - Hitler's Germany was characterized by genocidal eugenics and rabid murderous anti-semitism that were favorites of the leftists of those days and probably still remain their favorites although not talked about in polite company - Hitler policies included a fanatical greenie ideology still characteristic of lefties today - Hitler and his crew were obsessed with occultism and mysticism that still seems to obsess significant portions of the left today
The list goes on and on... Of course at the time once the truth of the absolutely disgusting and murderous nature of Hitler's socialism in practice leaked out to the western world, the influential lefties of the time ran for cover and the "Hitler was right wing" myth was created and propagated...
