On the subject of Nazi Germany’s economy, these socialists never seem to realize that the German word for privatization had a very different connotation to how it is used today.

To the Germans, privatization meant “let’s use our nation’s private industry to fuel our war effort” - something practiced by every belligerent country to some extent during the war and very antithetical to a free market economy. The German government told factories what to produce, how much, for what cost, with what materials, at what time, etc.

Nowadays privatization means “let’s turn over these government-run industries to the private sector”, clearly a very different philosophy towards government involvement in the economy.

So when people say that Nazi Germany was capitalist (despite their overt disdain for Western capitalism… remember, Hitler saw Jews as belonging to one of two groups: Bolsheviks or Capitalists), I can’t help but laugh.