Was Hitler economically left wing?

[minionofmidas]

The DAF was not a "trade union" controlled by government a la the Soviet Bloc (which, of course, are no trade unions either as they served very few of trade unions' traditional functions - but then the Soviet Union's economic policies weren't sanely describable as left wing, whatever the rhetoric. As some western Communists noticed, to their horror, as early as the 1920s. And mostly kept mum about.) It was run by the employers - not just de facto; officially - and served none of trade unions' traditional functions.

[minionofmidas]

Yet he modeled the German constitution on the US Constitution.

There are hardly any similarity between the German constitution of 1871 and the US Constitution. Only thing they have in common is, that both constituted a federal state, but besides that, nothing.

I think suffrage was identical, for example.

The US Constitution has nothing to say about suffrage.
Meanwhile, in Germany the people were allowed an equal* vote for the one parliament that didn't wield real power.

*more or less

One similarity is that both constitutions were, by design, technically possible but ridiculously difficult to legally amend.