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Hitler supported BABY MURDER just like the LEFTIES!!!

Oh my... whoever wrote that quoted article needs a massage. It's not exactly balanced, is it...

I don't find the situation that difficult to understand really. Hitler used "socialism" (or more accurately, populism with agenda) to gain mass support from a dejected population in the wake of WW1, and used that support to begin a quest for right-of-center global fascism in WW2. I guess people forget (or don't want to remember) that Hitler was able to conquer most of Europe because he had the support of normal German people in doing so. Not "Nazis", not monsters, just the average German man and woman. So, if you understand that he had to gain that before switching to his true agenda, it's not difficult to see why he had so many socialist policies during that rise.

Also, much of his nationalisation was more linked to authoritarianism than leftism. Had far more to do with gaining state control of infrastructure and workforce (quite handy to have when waging a massive war) than it did genuine economic leftism.