Adolf Hitler: left or right?

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Yes, the weird meme (that is America's fault) that right-wing = limited government, left-wing = big government is a direct contribution to this POV.

Hitler was a right-winger in a right-wing party. Perhaps you can make an interesting debate about whether the Strassers etc. can genuinely be called left-wingers, but Hitler was an ardent conservative, who allied with the big landowners and industrialists, who crushed the independent trade unions and their affiliated groups, who opposed "decadent culture", who got the majority of the vote from the Middle-class and who was initially reliant on monarchists and right-wing nationalists to enter government.

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Seeing as how American libertarianism pretty much sprung into existence in the middle of the twentieth century, it hardly has had much influence on American conservatism as a whole. Rather, uS style conservatism has normally been very much on a similar vein to Europeam conservatism, from the quasi-monarchical stylings of the Federalists, the tariff-supporting Whigs and their allies, the nativist sentiments of the American/Know Nothings, the conservative elements of the Progressive moment (prohibitionists, "moral decency" guardians and the cheerleaders of imperialism), American exceptionalists and triumphalists in all their disparate incantations from paleo- to neocons etc.

Not to mention, y'know, the literal attempt to end democracy and install a Fascist dictatorship by the same sort of big business tycoons who grew rich off their bargain with the Nazis.