Did the NAZI party support socialism?
Yes, but their own brand of nationalist socialism; “standard” socialism is internationalist & pacifist, and looks forward to the day when nationalism and the “artificial” borders it raises are dead. The Nazis actually kept in place much of socialist policies of the Weimar Republic; for instance, education and health care were both free (well, we all know somebody has to pay for it.. but I digress…), at least as long as you were “Aryan”… At the same time, they were vehemently anti-communist, mainly because they blamed the Communists (and Jews) for the “stab in the back” that lead to Germany’s defeat in WW1 and the “diktat” of the Versaille treaty… It can be confusing, but that is because the history of the NSDAP is itself confusing, due to the fact that it was started by people who were anti-capitalists with socialist tendencies, and was then taken over by Hitler, who saw it first and foremost as a vehicle for his political ambitions; he was often embarrased in the early years (19
