Originally Posted by
Rjk
Hitler had a large number of left wing people murdered, including some within the Nazi party when they had the temerity to suggest left wing ideals.
He was opposed to trade unions , workers rights, and had a passionate hatred for the social democrats who had signed the Versailles treaty.
They initially borrowed some of the rhetoric of socialism in order to hold sway with the working classes, but never sought to uphold any of its central tenets.
Economically speaking there are examples of left and right policies. Hitler didn't believe in left and right wing, he thought those concepts were invented by Jews to keep the nation divided.
His only real aim was nationalism, he wanted to replace any existing social and economic structures with ones based on race, and was willing to do anything which would lead to that aim.
It probably doesn't make sense to describe the Nazis as left or right economically, they were basically just nationalists
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