"Hitler - apparently an ultra right winger. Maybe 6 or 10 million?"
national socialist hitler was always left wing...
However once hitler's leftie driven agenda of eugenics, euthenasia and genocidal factory-like disposal of "unwanted" population groups became known and caused such a outrage, the many rich and powerful lefties who supported and financed hitler's agenda and rise to power, many in US and across Europe, ran for cover and decided it was necessary to somehow brand the national socialist hitler as right wing with a 1984-style historical cleansing to re-write the past to control the future...
