1. Who owns the means of production.
The Fascists effectively controlled the means of production by controlling corporate leadership through coercion and outright threats and intimidation. Corporations could be privately held, but only as long as they took direction from the Nazis. This would place the Nazis slightly to the right of the Communists, but from our free-market republic viewpoint, the Nazis were almost indistinguishable to us from the Communists.
That’s exactly why I used the word “owns” instead of “controls”. Sometimes my brevity leaves room for different conclusions.