its a complex and tricky thing, the question of whether the Nazis were socialist certainly the economy was partially socialist in the manner in which Hitler commandeered the countrys labor & resources, but there was free enterprise - such as Ford Motor Vehicles making Germany's war tanks and one of Hitler's chief anxieties about the Jews was their over-representative agency in the Communist Revolutions to the East, resulting in 6 million Ukrainian deaths contemperaneous to Hitler's rise @Crensch is more knowleagable on this. @Crensch whats your take on the extent to which Nazis were 'Socialist' or where they fit in the Left /Right dichotomy ?