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>Hitler was a full-throated socialist too.

Is there even remotely a consensus by historians on this?

There is a consensus that Hitler was not a socialist. He was a Nazi and a fascist. He purged the elements in his own party that had put the "socialist" in "national socialist" on the Night of Long Knives.

You're not citing any evidence.

Socialists supported him because of his full-throated support of socialism.

That he killed some of them when they became inconvenient is perfectly characteristic of socialists, who frequently purge their own ranks quite brutally.

You're not citing any evidence either.

What you say is funny because it was the capitalistic right that led him to absolute power (see: hindenburg, and the pressure of the rich to get hitler named chancellor because they feared the communists).

And the last statement is scraping the bottom of the barrel too so I won't comment more on that.

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