Why is Nazism considered a negotiation between democracy and socalism?
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BECAUSE,
· The repression of the Jews and Communists was severe. On 3rd March 1933, the famous Enabling Act was passed. This Act established dictatorship in Germany.
· It gave Adolf Hitler all political and administrative power to sideline the German parliament.
· All political parties of Germany and trade unions were banned except for the Nazi party and its affiliates.
· The state established complete control over the economy, media, army and judiciary.
· Special surveillance and security forces besides the existing regular police force, the Gestapo, the SD plus the extra-constitutional powers of these newly constructed forces gave the Nazi state its reputation of being the most dreaded criminal state.
This is an obviously leading question, because in the US there's a prominent political candidate who calls himself a "democratic socialist". He is, of course, not Hitler.
Nor was Germany's actual Social Democratic Party, which opposed Hitler and which he forcibly shut down after seizing power.
Hitler's political party (the Nazis) was officially called The Nationalsocialist German Workers Party, putting “socalist” in its name — but Nationalist-socialist. Keep in mind, Kim Jong-Un calls his own state The Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea, with very curious definitions of "democratic" and "republic." Fascists do love to redefine things without actually following them.
Hitler rose to power during the Great Depression and his main economic promise was German self-sufficiency. When in power, he initially employed some of the same tactics as Franklin Roosevelt in the US: namely, fighting massive unemployment through government-funded public works. But Hitler himself was much more military-minded, so on economic issues he brought in experts from other parties to help run things.