Is there any professor in a university in Germany or Austria who thinks that the nazis were lefties?

[CumbrianLefty]

Left means "more statism" and right means "less statism," don'tchaknow? This is why the Soviets were more right-wing than Hitler but an anarcho-syndicalist commune is the most rightist society possible.

Not even that, they had "socialist" in their name and Herr Schicklgruber actually used the word on the odd occasion! What more proof could anybody need??

[CumbrianLefty]

There was also a (small) National Socialist Party in Britain during WW1 and the immediate aftermath.

Whilst (as the name suggests) it was nationalist to a degree, it was nothing like the NSDAP.

[CumbrianLefty]

But plenty of pundits and ideologues.

[CumbrianLefty]

Which is the meaningless "distinction" cooked up by crackpot "libertarians".

[CumbrianLefty]

The point is that the "libertarian perspective" on this misses the woods for the trees, always assuming it is made in good faith at all.