"Nazis and communists are both sides of the fascist coin. Both deserve to die together."
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The main issue is that Democratic Socialists and Communists who fled from Europe in the early-mid 20th century managed to throughly infiltrate academia and push the idea of Fascism and National Socialism as right wing philosophies. This apparent even in the use of the word, "Nazism." Germans never used that term during the Nazi regime; it was always "Nationalsozialismus." The contraction of "Nazism" or even, to an extent, "Nazi," was always meant to hide the Socialism at the heart of National-Socialism.
This causes twofold problems. The most obvious is that leftists distance their beliefs from the horrifying consequences of those beliefs. The less obvious consequence is that some rightists get the ridiculous notion that Hitler was "based" just because he opposed some of the excesses of the other leftists. It particularly amazes me when self-proclaimed Christians support Hitler. The Nazi ideology was thoroughly opposed to many of the core tenets of Christianity, such as universal love for humanity. Hitler only supported the Church in the sense that he believed it a useful political tool.
"The Nazi ideology was thoroughly opposed to many of the core tenets of Christianity, such as universal love for humanity."
Hitler had respect for all people and all cultures. He wanted all of them to thrive instead of getting mixed up and have disunity and division in a country.
You mean aside from the groups that he saw as subhuman and wanted to wipe out, like the Slavs? Come on. If he just wanted to make Germany great, there was no need to invade Europe. The Nazis had a clear racial hierarchy of how the world ought be run, with Nordic Aryans on the top, Mediterranean and Alpine Europeans as "peasant stock," and Jews, Romani, and Slavs as subhuman.
National Socialism is quite different than simple ethno-nationalism.