What were the Nazis, socialist or fascist?

The full name of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party, the political movement that brought him to power and supplied the infrastructure of the fascist dictatorship over which he would preside, was Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, the National Socialist German Workers' Party. read more

The German Nazis self-described themselves as the “National Socialist German Workers Party.” In every sense, the Nazi’s embodied both socialist and fascist ideals in so far as both socialism and fascism (as practiced by Mussolini and Hitler) are forms of collectivism. read more

The full name of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party, the political movement that brought him to power and supplied the infrastructure of the fascist dictatorship over which he would preside, was Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. read more

The Nazis, or National Socialist German Workers Party, was fascistic in its ideology, but obviously distinct from Italian fascism in that its roots were found within German culture and German history. The origins of the Nazi Party followed the German defeat in World War I, but the Nazi seizure of power did not occur until 1933. read more