False Adolf Hitler Quote

This comment section really shows how far Americans have been brainwashed about socialism. How come otherwise that so many in spite of the "False Adolf Hitler Quote" tag in the top directly go to the comment section to spout their vague statements on the nazis being socialists?

Snopes is using word play to deceive you.  Did you read the whole article?  They were socialists.  But they quote is only slightly off.

If you want to know about Socialism, would you listen to Einstein-
who had a bounty put on his head by Hitler? 

Einstein wrote an essay called "Why Socialism?" and published it in the the Monthly Review.

Its pretty short.
Like Einstein was short.

Or should I say "Gravitationally Challenged"? =)

Here: https://MonthlyReview.org/why-socialism

You aren't obligated somehow to agree with him- but hear him out. I dare you.

Try this on for size:

"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."

- This was Pastor Martin Niemoller's retelling of what happened (And he would know, having spent 7 years in the camps.)

If you wanted to learn about Christ, would you trust a Satanist? Of couse not.
If you wanted to learn about socialism from the guy
Why would you learn about socialism from some random idiot
If you want to learn about socialism

Hitler's party was, unsurprisingly, a mixture of people with socialist leanings, nationalist leanings, or both.  When the stock market crashed in '29, Hitler had 3% and dwindling popularity. Shortly after, it skyrocketed— propelling him into power; because he sold the nationalism idea well, and Rohm, the party's gay & socialist cofounder, was big on socialism.   First thing that Hitler did when he came into power was to privatize the banks and key industries for the upcoming war. It was a smart move—  due to the depression his gov't didn't have sufficient money to run those industries.

All he had to do was appeal to the richest landowners in Germany.  Which he did by having Rohm (who himself had 3 million SA working underneath him) killed in 1934, during the Rohm purge, aka "Night of the Long Knives". (He had other motivations— like ohm being disrespectful and a threat to his power.) 

The entirety of the socialist leadership were given 1 minute "trials" before they were executed. Well, some of them were shot without a trial, namely the homosexuals.  Hitler, a Catholic, had only used socialism to get into power (the stock market crash had resulted in the termination of the Dawes plan— eg the USA loaning Germany money to rebuild.. so people were critical of capitalism's inherent instability.)  He would have stuck with socialism if it matched his needs, but it didn't. 

The economic system of the 1930s Weimar Republic (called Germany now) was a planned capitalism.  People still had private property, etc.  But even if Hitler had decided to go back to socialism, it wouldn't have contributed to the evil of the Nazis— because its just a system of economics.  One that a guy named Albert Einstein supported, and wrote a nice essay on called "Why Socialism?".  And let me tell you, Hitler was no Einstein.  Nor was he a fan of Einstein.. Hitler put a bounty on Einstein's head, seized his bank account, had Einstein's books burnt in the streets, and criminalized even writing his name in the science journals of the day. 

In any case, after 1934, they were just nationalists, not socialists. 
None of what I stated is controversial to anyone (except maybe Neo-Nazis, to be fair.)  I don't blame you if you didn't know most of it though— it was kept out of my schooling too.  I had to actually read "Mein Kampf" to understand Hitler's motivations (which were a combination of religious, patriotic, and an actual love for his people; who he thought were being spiritually poisoned by liberal Jewish thought... aka "International Marxism", as he called it.)  Most of all, Hitler was a blame-shifter.  He targeted the Jews because he believed that they "mind controlled" the Russians by way of Marxism.  To a degree he was right about that— I mean Marx was a Jew, is all. Although Hitler hated Jews the most— all other non-Aryan peoples on the planet would have been murdered if he hadn't been stopped by the Soviets— who singlehandedly defeated 80%% of the Nazi forces.  Wikipedia "Eastern Front" and click on the results section for proof of that.