It gets tiring to go through the same arguments again and again, but the simple fact is that Nazis (National Socialism) were NOT a left-wing movement. They began as a right-wing party, coopted other far right parties in Germany, and all of their alliances were with right wing parties. The use of the word “Socialist” in their name does not equate to “left wing” or Marxism at all.

This is a completely uncontroversial view. There are very few reputable historians who don’t identify the Nazis as right wing. There’s a trend of revision going around that tries to deny any right wing connections at all — exemplified by Jonah Goldberg’s “Liberal Fascism” — but it’s not working, and it’s not going to work, because it simply isn’t true.