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It had some(not all) of its roots in socialism in the beginning, that much is sure. As in, the 1920s. Not wholly socialist though since, as others have pointed out, the NSDAP was violently anti-communist and while many of its members like Rohm, the Strasser brothers and Goebbels were socialist, other prominent members like Goering and von Neurath were linked with the army/old Prussian aristocracy and decidedly anti-socialist. But as a minor fledgling party the Nazis didn't have the luxury to accept people based on their political position; if you were violent, an anti-commie and against the current Weimar Republic, then.you were welcome.

Said socialist vibes were long forsaken by Hitler himself by the time the Nazis came to power in 1933, since as a way to win Germany's elections he'd allied himself with the industrialists and 'big business' by that time. Obviously the socialist elements like Rohm, his SA and the Strassers objected to this, which is why they were all eliminated in a bloody purge the next year; Goebbels was only spared because he'd already defected to Hitler and his cult of personality years previously and was only fanatically loyal to whatever Hitler said, renouncing his own political views.

Nobody in their right mind who knows about Nazi history can possibly call them socialists after that massacre.
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