The origin of the wrong idea that the nazis were lefties

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Hitler named it the National Socialist Party in part to tick off and confuse the other socialist and communist parties in Germany at the time and pick off more of their voters. They were a far right party but emphasized the re-invigoration piece during the Wiemar years and then focused on nationalism of war industries and/or collusion with them and other industries in the pre-war and war years.

So some leftist ideas but mostly right, the darkest econ ideas of the Nazis weren't even that left but more dark, slave labor, camps, forced servitude, etc. That doesn't really fit in with any ideology except barbarianism.