Hitler was stroking the left until he felt he could do without them. He took power in 1933. The Night of the Long Knives was in 1934.
In 1935 he abolished all labor unions.
That ain't much stroking.
Walt
To say that socialism is the opposite, by definition, of nationlism is like saying that apples, by definition, are the opposite of oranges. It makes no sense. It makes even less sense than that, actually, because nationalism is not in any way exclusive of socialism, or vice versa. The current Chinese regime is both, for instance. Socialists usually do have a dream of spreading the revolution globaly, but there are mant ways to attempt this, some of which in no way exclude nationlism. The multi-cultural (really just uni-cultural) socialism of our own Left is equally as dangerous and potentially murderous as national socialism, BTW.
That must've been to the very end of his life then because Joseph Goebbels was a philosophical marxist of the far left. Hitler stroked Goebbels to the very end of his life and named the latter his successor as Fuehrer before committing suicide. Though they had a political falling out later in the war, Hermann Goering had his own socialist tendencies as well and was stroked by Hitler to the latter days of the reich.
In 1935 he abolished all labor unions.
As I noted earlier, Soviet Poland (as in the Soviet puppet state of Poland for those of you who are too stupid to figure out what that means, Walt) wasn't very fond of labor unions either. Nor was the Vietcong for that matter. That didn't make any of them any less socialist though.