Why does this argument keep coming up, and is continually brought up by the retards?
Here's a repost of what I said in yet another thread on this same subject:
Hitler was really a dictator. Just like Stalin. But unlike Stalin, he went the fascist route instead of the communist route.
Basically, in 1920's Germany, there was a heavy socialist and communist sympathetic bent among the public, but not with the President and his cabinet. The Pres and his cabinet saw the socialists and communists as a threat to their power. The funny thing is, the majority of the German people didn't even know what socialism or communism really was. They just knew it was against the current form of government, which in their opinion sucked balls.
So what Hitler did was use the existing anti-government, pro-socialist sentiment among the people of Germany to create a new party, the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
(notice that they have the word "national", bringing the whole nation together. The word "socialist", which was meant to capitalize on the existing pro-socialist sentiment...even if the majority of the people didn't know what socialism really was. And the word "workers", meaning it was for the common man). There was already a National Socialist Democrat Party, and a Communist Party, but Hitler was telling people that his was teh shit cause it hated evil jews and other left-wingers.
(side note: One of Hitler's main jobs prior to starting the Nazi party was to report back to the military any Socialist or Communist sympathizer-type meetings so they could be squashed).
Well, elections weren't going so well for the Nazi's. They had some support, but not enough as they thought. They were winning some seats, but not too many. The National Social Democrats (NSD) and the German Communist party were winning more seats than the Nazi's in the governing body. Kinda like our congress, they called it the Reichstaag. Well, Hitler had some of the Nazi's beat up the communists a few times, but it wasn't working. So he came up with a different plan.
He had a fire started in the Reichstaag, and blamed it on communists and the NSD's. Hoo-boy. That got the German population all riled up. They were teh pissed at communists and the NSD's now. So they were all willing and shit when Hitler had the rest of the communists rounded up and executed, along with a ton of the NSD's. Thus eliminating a potential source of rivalry for his power very cleverly.
Soon after the President of Germany died, and since Adolf was Chancellor, he declared the office voided and placed himself as dictator.
Very abbreviated history lesson. But no...Hitler was not a "socialist" by any stretch of the imagination.