Mushroom
Gold Member
Nope. Hitler split from the Socialists in 1926.
No, he did not. The NSDAP was always a Socialist movement. Just as the Fascists were always a Communist inspired National Socialist movement.
However, since a great many Communists try to lay claim to all of Socialism as their own creation and property, they hate having this known by others.
Mussolini was a lifelong Socialist, form a family of lifelong Socialists. He was only kicked out of the Communist Party that he helped found because he realized that Internationalism was not the answer. And Hitler idolized Mussolini.
Whenever people try to claim the NSDAP "split" from the "Socialists", what they really mean to say is that they "split" from the International Socialists (Communists). And that is true because they were always opposites. However, they did have the support of the Socialists that wanted the Monarchy restored. However, they eventually drifted off to the KPD and SPD. Which largely were weak because they were so distracted in trying to fight each other that the ignored the smaller and rising party in the background.