It has long been considered 'inconvenient' by leftists to point out the extremely socialist roots of the Nazi movement. It was not called National SOCIALISM by accident, nor merely was it a title.Gregor Strasser, his brother Otto and of course, Josef Goebbels were all fully committed socialists and it would be foolish to overlook the importance of the socialist influences which led to the pact with Stalin in 1938, although to be fair, this did play rather well into Hitler's grand imperialistic designs.
Indeed, it is only in this frighteningly excessive nationalism that Hitler may be seen as being of the right at all. His internal policies were very much of the left and he was despised by many on the traditional right and possibly even by the majority.
Hitler committed few if any atrocities which were not echoed, at least in some measure, by Stalinism.
If you ever have many spare hours on your hands, may I recommend Bullock's "Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives". It will give you a perspective on naziism which has seemingly been expunged from so many contemporary political texts.
Wikepedia notes:
Otto Strasser's ideology continues to this day to influence a radical leftist strain of neo-Nazism which clamours for nationalization of industrial ("capitalist") property, and wholesale land redistribution to poor farmers and workers. Amongst those influenced by Strasser have been Nick Griffin, National anarchist founder Troy Southgate and those of the American Strasserite group Folk And Faith.
PHOTO: STRASSER: RIGHT.
