You're from Germany and I suppose you should know better than me but the Nazi party was the National Socialist German Workers Party. That's what my dictionary says.
Yes, I know that and I never disputed that.
Also the following link takes you to a speech by Rudolph Hess, one of Hitler's thugs.
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/hess1.htm
He uses the word socialist or socialism about 12 times and always in the context of German goals or philosophy, and always in an approving manner.
No, he doesnīt. He talks about National Socialism. And that IS indeed a difference.
Let me put it that way: National Socialists were socialists in name only. Thatīs what I tried to say with my analogy about East Germany. The "German Democratic Republic" wasnīt a democratic republic but a totalitarian dictatorship.
Most people who voted for the "National Socialist German Workers Party" werenīt even "workers", but members of the upper middle class. The man who named Hitler Chancellor was President Paul von Hindenburg, a former general of World War I and staunch conservative. After they came to power the first party they banned didnīt belong to the democratic spectrum of the Weimar Republic, in fact it was the Communist Party. The Nazis thought that Marxism was inherently evil. They also banned all labor unions and they imprisoned all active socialists and communists in concentration camps (in fact, that was the original purpose of the concentration camps, they started with detaining Jews there much later).
I would say on economic policies the Nazis were neither very leftist nor very conservative, but quite centrist.
