I’ve come up with a theory to explain to myself why so many are calling the Nazis far-right. I don’t know how long after the war it started, but most professors have been liberal for quite some time. Especially professors of anything in the liberal arts Arena. So a lot of these professors teaching history and writing books are liberals, so they are socialists and Beyond. If they were to have called the Nazis socialists, and that sort of messes up their agenda. Of course they are trying to brainwash the students in their classes and calling the Nazis socialists would ruin that. And they hate the opposite of socialism / fascism / communism; small limited government is their enemy. So they decide to call the Nazis far right in order to brand their enemy with something bad.
Then of course they don’t teach their students to think, they don’t teach them logic, so kids just buy that Nazis must be far right. Without actually looking at it and realizing that couldn’t be further from the truth. And the students don’t bother to realize that Nazi stands for national socialism. Plus Hitler’s many quotes about how he admires Karl Marx and that his government is socialist.
It came in really handy when Trump came along. He embodies everything they hate, Freedom, self-reliance, small government, profiting from your own endeavors - all truly right-wing ideas. So they decide to compare him with Hitler, since they’ve already set up the argument that Nazis are far right.