Socialism is leftism, Nazism is not, so why were they called, and some people still call them, the National Socialists?

  • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    Not an expert, but I find a good bit of context here is also that in the elections in 1932 and 1933, the three strongest parties were:

    • NSDAP: National Socialist German Workers’ Party
    • SPD: Social Democratic Party of Germany
    • KPD: Communist Party of Germany

    So, it really was just popular at the time to say you were doing socialism, but they also weren’t actually fooling anyone who really wanted these politics, since two other viable and more obvious choices existed.