The video above refutes the claim that this quote came from Hitler:
This guy claims the quote came from Gregor Strasser but then I found this:
Who said this?
I'm not sure why we even have to go that far. As Crowder pointed out, Nazis are National Socialists.
They called themselves NATIONAL socialists. East Germany was called the German Democratic Republic, that doesn't mean it was democratic. It's a bit naive to go by selfgiven names and ignore historical context.
The NSDAP did appeal to workers and made some claims that still appeal to the disenfrenchised today. Look up "Querfront" if you are not familiar with the concept.
But who were their main opponents? Whom did they hate most? Liberal leftist intellectuals, bonus points if they were Jewish. Who fought them from day one, both peacefully and in street battles? The left - social democrats and communists. Who cooperated with them? The right. Who was the first to end up as prisoners in concentration camps? Communists. Who defends them to this day? The far right.
That should give you a clue.
There are elements of Nazi Germany that can be found in many totalitarian regimes (personality cult, oppression of dissent, etc) and have to do with form. And then there is content. The ideology which is implemented through this form. That ideology, fascism, is a combination of anti-liberal, anti-modern impulses and a certain "aesthetics", a cluster of value judgements: a cult of strength, a cult of masculinity, a cult of death, disregard for what is considered weak, feminine, bookish. A sense of "the people" as a uniform quasi sacred massive block opposite an evil elite. A strong emphasis on natural differences, inequality and a hierarchy derived therefrom. Dissent is treason, eggheads are not to be trusted as they are too removed from the true people, the salt of the earth. A disregard, disdain for democratic intitutions and conventions as weak and ineffective.
THAT is the essence of fascism.
For fuck's sake, I am German and frustrated this post is even necessary. I think few people outside the American (far) right even try to pin the nazis as socialists or leftists. It's a bizzare claim not even the German far right is making.