Why do we call Nazis facist when they were national socialists?

by Kieraran
Searocksandtrees

Hi, there have been several threads in this sub asking why the Nazi party's name included the word socialist, and for definitions of fascism. You can get a quick start on this recent thread

And, the AskHistorians Podcast did an episode recently on fascism, featuring /u/commiespaceinvader . You might be interested in giving that a listen