Infamous "Liberals"

[Rev. Rye]

Hehe, i'm teasing PP.

'national socialist.'

It's a bit of an oxymoron. Hitler was a facist, so therefore not a socialist; 'Fascism opposes multiple ideologies: conservatism, liberalism, and two major forms of socialism—communism and social democracy'(wiki)

I just had a class on Weimar Germany and my teacher was just last night talking about the rise in infamy of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party (right on up to his prison stay/writer's retreat in 1923) and did a short spiel on why Hitler added the "National Socialist" to the party's name, and he explained that, in essence, Hitler used the term "socialist" in a very peculiar sense; namely, his belief in "National Socialism" referred to his belief in creating a "national German society." So, in this case, it is probably better called Pan-Germanism.

That said, there was a branch of Naziism that could be legitimately considered socialists: The Strasserites. That said, they got butchered on the Night of the Long Knives in 1934.