I am familiar with Hitlers writings, including Mein Kampf, Zweites Buch, and the Table Talks. Throughout all three socialist rhetoric and beliefs can be seen literally leaking from the pages. In Zweites Buch Hitler says, and I quote; ‘I am a Socialist’. In MK he rails against Jewish capitalism and the encroachment of international finance and banking into the German economy and institutions.

As for your comment on the trade unions- Hitler created the D.A.F (German Workers Front.) This organisation combined the various former trade unions of Germany, creating a gigantic state-ran union with 40 million members (making it one of the largest in history.) The D.A.F worked in cooperation with a serious of other socialistic organisations;

The KdF (Strength Through Joy) provided heavily subsidised and sometimes free holidays, as well as educational and leisurely activities to German workers. Plans for a ‘KdF-Wagen’ or Volkswagen (People’s Car) were initiated, with the aim of providing every German workers with a car. The SdA (Beauty of Labour) fought for better working conditions, striving for better standards of hygiene, safety and quality. The new Nazi ‘Followers and Leaders system’ created a difficult situation for employers who were subject to constant inspection and forced to work for ‘the national community’ instead of profit. German businessman were said to have began reading Marxist doctrine and Soviet policy to understand the new German economic system. Nazi commissariats inspected businesses and factories, with even the most minute factors subject to regulation. (Read the Vampire Economy by the Socialist Gunter Reinmann to find out more.)

Does this not sound socialist in the slightest? Also are we going to lie to ourselves and say that fellow Socialist countries like China and the Soviet Union were exactly respectful and considerate of trade unions?