Serious question: can you give an actual example of this because I can't think of a single one.
A lot of commentators without thinking seem to call the nazi's a 'left' party -- I assume because of the word socialist in the party name -- there are many books on the history of the nazi party, and reading any of them should be enough to clear anyone of this misapprehension.
It's not just about the word "socialist" in the party name. Policy actually fits, on that and more.
They were into government intervention and social spending.
They had gun control. (a prerequisite for hauling off the Jews)
They shipped an ethnicity off to prison camps, just as FDR did. FDR is on the left, is he not?
They had the Sturmabteilung to break up opponent's political meetings, rather like the violent protesters that were sent to attack Trump supporters at campaign events.
So it seems you may need to clear up a misapprehension. I suspect the mistake arises from the desire to maximize political distance from the Nazi party for yourself, while minimizing that distance for your opponents. You might also wrongly associate nationalism with racism. They are not the same. Both can be found on both sides of the political divide.
It is fair to say that the Nazi party was to the right of communism, the popular alternative at the time, but of course everything is to the right of communism.
Oh boy. Not the old "aaachtchuly the left are the real nazis!" trope again? How long until you start misinterpreting the cause of the civil war?
Hitler was incredibly anti-liberal, authoritarian, pro-business and pro-military and drew most of his initial support from the middle classes and farmers. The socialist name was an attempt to draw lower class workers to the party who typically voted for the actual communist party.
Violent protesters exist on both sides, sure. However only one side agitates its members into such a fury that they mow down counter-protesters with cars. The parallels to Sturmabteilung are absolutely ridiculous.
Also, gun control did not aide in "hauling off the jews"[1]
> They were into government intervention and social spending.
How else could they recover from the punishment of Treaty of Versailles? The economic recovery of Germany before the start of WW2 is pretty interesting and a surprising success story even knowing what we now do of those involved. The Nazi's were famously and fanatically anti-bolshevik.
> They had gun control. (a prerequisite for hauling off the Jews)
I have no real opinion on this besides "gun control" being an American issue which seems to be used to split left/right there. Our left and right parties both support gun control here, as does most of the rest of the world.
> They shipped an ethnicity off to prison camps, just as FDR did. FDR is on the left, is he not?
"Shipped an ethnicity off to prison camps" doesn't really do the events of the Holocaust justice. By FDR I assume you mean the American president? What does he have to do with the Nazi party? Your argument for the nazi party having "leftist" policies is that some later US president who did the 'same thing' (he ordered the deaths of all these people did he?) was a member of a left party? That's pretty weak sauce my friend.
As a German, I have no desire to minimize or indeed maximize the 'distance 'to Nazi ideology for anyone, I'm not attacking you here -- I just don't understand how you can hold such views.
You've cherry picked some here which you think are enough to be able to present the nazis as a left party while ignoring the historical actions of this group (which are far-right in the extreme). It's quite ironic that on an article about bios-confirming echo chambers you seem to be hook-line+sinker in the same hole.
Please think carefully before throwing Nazi around or trying to align them with one side of the political debate wherever you are or the other -- the nazis were among the worst we have come up with so far in our history, and no one is aligned with them. While I think you're wrong to call them leftist; in the end it doesn't matter. We object to nazis because they are evil, not because of their supposed political leanings -- using them as ammunition in a discussion only ends it and offends people.
