@old europe,
I just finished some books, one being the prelude to WWII. You are entitled to your own prejudiced opinion, which I think is the popularly held belief, but it is clear the Nazi Party was a socialist party. It is is not uncommon for leftist factions to oppose each other, history records far stranger things, in fact democracies like Britian and the U.S. were allied with Communist Soviet Union and Stalin to defeat Germany. I would suggest, oe, that you shed the indoctrination of intelligentsia, and use simple reasoning, based upon the historical record that is clear and undeniable.
I ran across the following on the internet, and it has "some of the interesting stuff about Hitler's appeal and beliefs, founded upon alot of the same garbage espoused by anti-capitalist type malcontents, eerily similar to what we hear from the left nowadays. I will quote one paragraph that I think is particularly descriptive.
"He championed the rights of workers, regarded capitalist society as brutal and unjust, and sought a third way between communism and the free market. In this regard, he and his associates greatly admired the strong steps taken by President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal to take large-scale economic decision-making out of private hands and put it into those of government planning agencies. His aim was to institute a brand of socialism that avoided the inefficiencies that plagued the Soviet variety, and many former communists found his program highly congenial. He deplored the selfish individualism he took to be endemic to modern Western society, and wanted to replace it with an ethic of self-sacrifice: "As Christ proclaimed 'love one another'," he said, "so our call -- 'people's community,' 'public need before private greed,' 'communally-minded social consciousness' -- rings out.! This call will echo throughout the world!""
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/hitler.html
The fascinating thing about this is alot of this same crap comes out of the Obama supporter or leftie camp right here in the good ole u.s.a. It is the same type of clap trap emanating from the likes of Jeremiah Wright and his Black Liberation Theology, which is eerily similar to or connected Marxism. Alot of this same attitude explains why I am so actively opposed to the liberalism that is infecting today's politics and in particular the Democratic Party. I believe it to be a very dangerous path to go down.