re: #94 NJDhockeyfan

Nazism was about as evil as it can get. I don’t think calling it right or left is correct.

Sure it is. If you want to understand Nazism and how it rose to prominence, you have to understand the other far right political movements in Europe at the time, and how Nazism fit in among them.

Hitler was deeply influenced by Mussolini’s fascist movement, and he was also reacting strongly against what he saw as the poisonous left-wing movements at the time. He might have co-opted some left-wing rhetoric, but in practice, Nazism was about as far to the right as you could go, with some bonus anti-Semitism and racism thrown in for good measure. Calling it a far right wing movement is historically correct, because it was.