Was Adolf Hitler a Socialist? Debunking a Historical Myth

Historian Neil Gregor, in his introduction to a discussion of Nazism which includes many experts, says:

“As with other fascist ideologies and movements it subscribed to an ideology of national renewal, rebirth, and rejuvenation manifesting itself in extreme populist radical nationalism, militarism, and – in contradistinction to many other forms of fascism, extreme biological racism…the movement understood itself to be, and indeed was, a new form of political movement…the anti-Socialist, anti-liberal, and radical nationalist tenets of Nazi ideology applied particularly to the sentiments of a middle class disorientated by the domestic and international upheavals in the inter-war period.” (Neil Gregor, Nazism, Oxford, 2000 p 4-5.)

Hitler's book, MEIN KAUMPF, describes, in detail, his socialist ideals.

On the right side of equation we have hostility to immigrants, contempt for equal rights, contempt for civil liberties, militarism and a deep hatred for communism. On the left side we have some socialist economic theories. That puts Hitler firmly on the right... had he pursued "free market" or the crony capitalism popular in the US today, instead of socialist economic policies, he would still have been a rat bastard.

It wasn't his economic policies that were the problem, quiet the contrary... his economic policies turned Germany into an economic powerhouse.