The origin of the wrong idea that the nazis were lefties

[The Mikado]

The arrogance is in this thread is ing astounding. Instead of legitimate debate, just a bunch of junk comments. I probably should have known better considering the A-grade accuracy of most of the predictions on here for HRC last year.

I'd like to continue, but if it's just going to be a flood of junk then ing forget it.

Bye!

You do realize that you walked in here and started arguing with Al, a poster of some 15 years standing here, who has advanced degrees in History and is something of an expert in the topic you engaged him on, and when he walked all over you, you just walk away and pretend that you won the argument, right? You look ridiculous.

[The Mikado]

I'm sure Hitler is rolling in his fiery grave in deepest hottest Hell about how smug contrarian morons loudly proclaim his political project and its ideological descendents as being of the Socialist Left.

This is pretty key. Mussolini explicitly and messily left the Left due to his enthusiastic support of World War I against the Italian Socialists' hostility towards it, and Mussolini proudly burned all his bridges with his former comrades in the process. Hitler was never a leftist and hated them for life for what he saw was the Left's role in undermining the war effort in World War I by overthrowing the Imperial government in November 1918 and then launching its abortive subsequent revolution. Both of these people saw left wing politicians and organizations as their chief adversary (in Hitler's case, he thought that they were puppeteered by an international Jewish conspiracy, but whatever).