I've now seen several times in online political debates that when someone on the (usually far) right is called a Nazi or compared to Hitler, their response is that "Well, Hitler was a socialist." Considering the name of the party, how truly "socialist" would the Nazi regime's policies be considered on a modern scale?
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In short, there are no real similarities between Sanders or any other self-described democratic socialist and the Nazis. One of the other problems of this line of thinking is that it is usually transpositioning twenty-first-century political definitions and American mores onto a mid-twentieth-century Central European context. What is "right" and "left" meant somewhat different things in 1933 Germany (and they still do in 2017 Germany!). This is an ahistorical and presentist way of thinking that contributes very little to understanding the complexities and contradictions of Nazi economic theory and its answer to the social question.
For one thing, there was a clear socialist party in Germany in the interwar period (the SPD and arguably the KPD) and a whole intellectual and political tradition associated with what socialism meant. Moreover, there were a number of answers to the social question throughout the German political spectrum. The SPD's approach tended to emphasize that it would serve as a midwife to the terminal stages of capitalism and enable a classless society. The NSDAP tended to draw from German conservative responses to the advent of capitalism. These ideas often prioritized racial or cultural solidarity would trump petty socioeconomic concerns if the right state structure appeared. The Christian Socials of nineteenth-century Vienna were one aspect of of this right-wing solution to class conflict and inequities. The German university system, which was a stronghold for German conservatism, produced a number of intellectuals arguing for close cooperation between the state and the economy. Many of the NSDAP's left-wing such as Hess or Goebbels developed their approach to economics in the German university, not from the SPD or other left-wing German parties. There was a longstanding intellectual tradition in the German university and in some German professions to see unrestrained capitalism as a foreign import that was fundamentally unGerman. In a similar vein, Hitler and his lieutenants' attacks on consumerism, department stores, and rampant profits had much more to do with cultural conservatives' critiques of so-called American styles of business penetrating Germany in the 1920s. There were very few partisans of free markets and open trade among the interwar German right; most tended to be clustered around the smaller bourgeois parties of the center-right. Most German industrialists and the DNVP favored protectionism and cartels, even if the DNVP also claimed to be the party of the small businessman.
While the NSDAP did have a left-wing, it was not "left" in the proper sense of the word. Most of its proposals were scavenged from various right-wing discourses. And even here, the left within the NSDAP had very little power. The Strasserite wing was muzzled well before the Night of the Long Knives at the Bamberg Conference. This ushered in a half-decade process of minimization of the Party's left wing or forcing those like Goebbels or Hess to toe the more centrist-far right line of Hitler.
If anything, the NSDAP co-opted the right of German politics. Although they made some inroads among working-class voters (often those who were ununionized), the bulk of the NSDAP's electoral support came from those German voters who voted on the right and middle of German politics. The hypernationalism and anti-Republican sentiment of the NSDAP was far more energetic than that of the mainstream conservative parties like the DNVP.
Race was one of the key facets that distinguished the NSDAP from its contemporary rivals on the German left. German socialist tradition had an internationalist bent and officially eschewed racism. Discourse within the Third Reich almost always used national/nationalist in conjunction with socialist (eg National Socialist Welfare, National Socialist Automobile Club, etc.). This was not some arbitrary naming scheme as National Socialist ideologues constantly asserted that the Reich's solution to the social question was an unprecedented event in German history.