Anyone who has read Hitler's biographies will find nothing in them that shows socialist or communist leanings. Hitler was a pure opportunist.
Hitler's idea of socialism was nationalism.
He was an avowed hater of Marx and Bolshevism. When asked about the word "socialism" in National Socialist German Workers' Party, Hitler said, "We are going to take "socialism" back from the socialists and Marxists." He didn't mean that he was going to destroy private property and redistribute income. He meant that Germany was going to be for Germans.
The two were inextricably bound in his view. There was no room for individual rights or indeed for the individual at all.
“The day of individual happiness has passed,” Hitler returned. “Instead, we shall feel a collective happiness. Can there be any greater happiness than a National Socialist meeting in which speakers and audience feel as one? It is the happiness of sharing. Only the early Christian communities could have felt it with equal intensity. They, too, sacrificed their personal happiness for the higher happiness of the community.”......."Why need we trouble to socialize banks and factories? We socialize human beings.” - Adolf Hitler
To the Nazis, there could be no true socialism that was not nationalist in character with everybody wrapped up in "the people's community". Sure they would let you continue to manage your factor or small business instead of dropping some party flunkie in to take over who had no idea what he was doing. But woe betide you if you did not do what the government wanted. You were to produce the goods the government wanted and not other goods. You were to produce them in the quantities the government wanted and the prices and your profits would be strictly controlled by the government. The Nazis were absolutely Socialists.
Hitler only tolerated Capitalism to the extent that it helped him to build his war machine. Once the war was won, he planned to eliminate the “business class”.
I believe that Hitler and the NAZI Party were Socialists.
The best portrayal of this I’ve found is given from this historian on YouTube.
He cites primary and secondary sources for his material and does a fantastic job capturing the true history of that period - TIKhistory
TIK did a 38 minute video on this topic then when he was attacked be people losing their minds he put a 4 hour video in the same subject.
Here’s the 38 minute video and the 4 hour video after that
https://youtu.be/mLHG4IfYE1w?si=rJlv-s_lENLMCzwz
https://youtu.be/eCkyWBPaTC8?si=GZ5gqJOlT2gt3kUj