Hitler's Socialism: The Evidence is Overwhelming

"I am a socialist.” - Hitler, from his "Zweites Buch" (Second Book) Page 50.

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History isn’t as boring as some people think, and my goal is to get people talking about it. I also want to dispel the myths and distortions that ruin our perception of the past by asking a simple question - “But is this really the case?”. I have a 2:1 Degree in History and a passion for early 20th Century conflicts (mainly WW2). I’m therefore approaching this like I would an academic essay. Lots of sources, quotes, references and so on. Only the truth will do.

[benedeknagy]

"Farmers were encouraged to stop producing meat and eggs." a minute....

[NoFlu]

My favourite form of "free trade" is when a guy with a gun tells me what and whom I may trade with and promply puts me into a slave labour or death camp if I disagree with him.
A truly free market....

[AFGuidesHD]

"The Germans viewed private property as conditional"
I mean you could argue that is the case for every country in the world. How often do plutocrat governments seize private property for their own uses? In fact Britain did it quite a lot in 1939. There's no such thing as "fundamental rights" especially not given by a government.

[BolinFoto]

My grandfather was a Nazi.
He was Croatian so by proxy he was a Nazi, at the end of the war Tito said to all Yougoslav Nazis that if they defected and fought for him they would get a full pardon.
I asked him once how he could go from being a Nazi to being a Communist and he said.
"Well beside the obvious, that was to save my own neck, there isn't really that much difference between them.
Both demands total obediance to the Leader and the Party ideals.
Both have "work camps" and in one you go because of race, in the other because of ideology...
One wants the whole world to be socialists, "International Socialism" the other just want them to be socialists, "National Socialism".
Both of the hates "the small hats"
So you see there isn't really that much of a difference.
All i really need to do now is to remember to close my fist when I salute..."
So yeah...

[TheImperatorKnight]

Does anyone know any modern capitalist corporations that are staffed with governmental political party members dressed in military style uniforms? I seemed to have missed that part of modern day capitalism

[johnsanko]

I think one of the major issues of discussing Socialism in America is that Americans tend to conflate "Socialism" with Marxism/Bolshevism. Many of the arguments I've heard against German National Socialism being "not true socialism" are really arguing that it isn't Marxist.

[carterghill]

Tried convincing ChatGPT that Hitler was a socialist purely by asking for definitions, siting what he said and did, and requesting logical conclusions on that basis. Not only were the answers very different than from what I'd get by asking flatly if Hitler was socialist, but the damn bot crashed right when I thought it would make the conclusion. It may have been a coincidence but I've made it crash multiple times now and it's always on that controversial step

[danstone]

Goebels called Marxist socialism 'socialism of the belly' and National Socialism "socialism of the soul".

[digitalis]

A better color description for Socialism would have been:

"This is Socialism...it is Red.
This is Marxism...it is Orange.
This is National Socialism...it's Brown.
And this is Fascism...it's Purple.

Now, these three colors aren't Red, *but they all have Red in them and cannot be made without it."*

[citomp]

This is exactly what Klaus Schwab preaches today. It's beyond me why people can't see this.

[SittingOnEdgeman]

It's one of those things that is so hard for a normal person to believe that even my brother - who loves most of your work and has a masters in history - has a hard time stomaching this one. He hasn't identified any specific flaws in your sources or reasoning, so I think it's more just, how unthinkable it is to him in his worldview. I appreciate your hard work in this front and hope it gets recognized!

[kozakos_vt]

Personal timestamps:
5:13 Nazi and Soviet economy
11:42 Planned economy
17:49 Labour policy
19:03 War as a means to export inflation
25:59 Socialist rational regulation
26:57 Pre-Marxist socialism
27:59 Race socialism
28:48 Nazism without racism is plain socialism
31:02 National VS international socialism
32:03 Marx's anti-Semitism
32:51 Hitler's anti-Semitism
33:47 Hitler's opposition to Marxism
36:53 Hitler's ideological war
38:24 The (German) People's State
39:24 Nazi revolution
42:33 Hitler is a socialist

[bigtittie]

He was a socialist, not a communist or marxist, a socialist is an umbrella term, many socialist ideologies are very different, but in the idea of collectivization of the people Hitler was clearly a socialist

[kyle]

Claiming Hitler wasn't a socialist because he killed Röhm is like claiming Lenin wasn't a socialist because his Bolsheviks killed Mensheviks and he banished Martov

[jimcronin]

The whole idea of the Nazis and Hitler being right-wing originated from Stalin and supported by leftists in Europe and America during WWII who wished to draw an ideological distinction between the soon to be allies and soon to be enemies. The distinction is/was convenient and stuck like chewing gum to the sole of one's shoe--however erroneous. A few have responded to me by saying, "Yes, Hitler was leftist in economics but not in social and international views." All I can answer is "WHAT?!?!" How does one define a Totalitarian approach to government as Left or Right? How does one divorce the means and manner of producing, supporting and otherwise providing the population from any other national acts or aims? Economics are the basis of all national endeavors.

[stephanschmidt]

So National Socialism was Socialism. Duh. As a youth in Germany I wondered why this was never explained.

[carlodebattaglia]

As an Italian, I would say that the most profound philosophical imprint on Fascism was not the actualism of Gentile (too cerebral, complicated and known by very few) but the ideology of D'Annuzio, who was a great communicator and has been a true and influencial "superstar" for decades.

[pedroribeiro]

You know you've touched a nerve when Facebook suspends your account for sharing this video. Double thumbs up and continue the awesome work you do. Never surrender.

[dreamdiction]

The German definition of "privatization" means taking farms and business OUT of the speculative market, as in (private limited) as opposed to public PLC. Hitler correctly called himself a "National Socialist". Quoting speech by Hitler on December 28, 1938:

"A Socialist is one who serves the common good without giving up his individuality or personality or the product of his personal efficiency. Our adopted term 'Socialist' has nothing to do with Marxian Socialism. Marxism is anti-property; true socialism is not. Marxism places no value on the individual, or individual effort, of efficiency; true Socialism values the individual and encourages him in individual efficiency, at the same time holding that his interests as an individual must be in consonance with those of the community. All great inventions, discoveries, achievements were first the product of an individual brain. It is charged against me that I am against property, that I am an atheist. Both charges are false."
(- Speech given on December 28, 1938, quoted in The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939 pg. 93.)

Quoting "The Red Network" 1934: "Fascism, the bitterest enemy of Socialism-Communism, resembles Socialism in the respect that it gives great power to the State and dictatorship over all industry, employment, education, freedom of the press, etc . The points of difference which make it violently hated by the Reds are : its opposition to the "class struggle" and the subjugation of the bourgeoisie by the dictatorship of the proletariat . Rather, it seeks a harmony between all classes and concedes to industrialists, white collar, professional, as well as laboring workers, a place in the social order as necessary parts, not "class enemies, " of the whole, but under State control . It defends some property rights and religion . It opposes Marxist philosophy and the Communist and Socialist Marxian parties . Fascism in Italy is not anti-Semitic . The problem of the large number of revolutionary Russian Jews in Germany doubtless contributed toward making Fascist Germany anti-Semitic.

Fascism arose in Italy and Germany as the result of the weakness of Democracy in combating the Marxian poison which had been allowed to disintegrate the entire social fabric of these nations with agitations for strife and disunity. It took over power at a time in both countries when the choice lay between Fascist or Red dictatorship . It is the only enemy feared by the Reds, because it is the only system which opposes militancy with militancy and puts down one dictatorship by means of another. The price of Democratic freedom is eternal vigilance . When a people are too indifferent to the loss of their liberty, too blind to see that unchecked Marxism will result in complete chaos, disunity and national helplessness, too lazy to bother to protect their form of government, or to govern themselves, then some form of dictatorship will arise to take over the task for them.

Unless large numbers of Americans (and Europeans) shake off their present indifference to fast disappearing liberty and to danger from within, and combat Socialism-Communism vigorously, some form of Fascism will arise in America to do battle with Socialism for the dictatorship over the indifferent. As the strength of Socialism-Communism increases, the chance to preserve Democracy decreases, until eventually Fascism becomes the only alternative to Socialism-Communism. It is late, but not too late to save American Democracy if Americans will awaken-now/ Where are America's leaders?".

[dylanandmolly]

Who's here for the comparison to Starmer in 2024?