Hitler considered Nazism a form of socialism, says Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Alice Weidel , the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party’s candidate for chancellor in the 2025 general elections, said Adolf Hitler was a “ communist , socialist guy” But is there any validity to this claim? Weidel: A party called the “National Socialist German Workers’ Party ” could well have been no more socialist than North Korea .

Hitler himself did consider Nazism a form of socialism, but Hitler considered Marxian communism a socialist heresy.

“At heart Mussolini was always a Socialist ,” argues von Kuehnelt-Leddihn , while Hitler “had never formally belonged to the Socialist party, although he had drunk from almost the same ideological sources” Economically, the Nazi regime was firmly on the Left .

Corporations were dictated to as to what to manufacture and in what quantities.

A “Price Commissar” set the prices of goods, stripping the market of its most crucial means of communication, says Andreas Reimann .

Reimsann provides anecdotes of companies and ordinary people bypassing regulations through “private initiative” The expropriation of Jewish property and, later, the exploitation of abundant slave labour helped mitigate economic decline and fuelled the Nazi war machine, he says.