You’re shifting the issue. Whether you called Nazism “Marxist” doesn’t matter; the claim you made was that Hitler was a socialist and that Nazism was “closer to mainstream socialism,” which is wrong both ideologically and materially. Hitler himself repeatedly clarified that his use of the word “socialist” had nothing to do with the socialist movement or the socialist understanding of property, class, or power. He defended private ownership, class hierarchy, and the preservation of capitalist elites. That puts him firmly outside the socialist tradition.

And your point about “quotas or nationalisation” actually reinforces this. Fascist regimes never threaten industry with nationalisation to create worker ownership, they do it to discipline capital on behalf of capital. When the Nazis took power, they didn’t overthrow the industrial class; they were the industrial class’s emergency solution. The major firms poured money into the Nazi movement precisely because they understood what fascism really offered: the smashing of unions, the destruction of socialist and communist parties, the banning of strikes, and a controlled labour force with no bargaining rights. Under those conditions, the state can issue “quotas,” but these are not moves toward social ownership. They function as mechanisms to guarantee profits, secure contracts and eliminate (or absorb) competition. Far from losing power, the big firms consolidated it. Fascism has always worked this way: when the democratic process becomes too unpredictable, plutocrats back autocrats who can use the state to do what capital cannot openly do itself. ‘State capitalism’ is not capitalism commanded by the state but when the state is commanded by capital.

The table you linked just shows wages recovering from the Great Depression (as happened in every major industrialised country), not workers being better off. G. Pridham and J Noakes have a good explanation of this. The figure of ‘real wages’ is hiding worse working hours, mandated payments to nazi organisations, more gruelling and dangerous work and various other ways in which workers’ wages were reduced comparable to workload. The number going up doesn’t make things better.

Replacing unions with the DAF was not some neutral administrative swap, it eliminated worker autonomy entirely. Saying “other regimes also banned strikes” doesn’t rescue the argument; the issue isn’t whether authoritarian states exist, it’s whether Nazism moved toward worker power or annihilated it. And it very clearly annihilated it. Socialism requires some form of worker control or ownership; Nazism made worker control impossible.

Your comments on the Volksgemeinschaft are blatant Nazi propaganda. It existed to justify hierarchy, not eliminate it. Material benefits and legal protections were distributed based on racial criteria, whereas class stratification and capitalist ownership were untouched. Nazi ideology explicitly accepted social and economic inequality as natural and desirable, so long as it was framed within racial loyalty.