[Milhous]

the Nazis of today are on the left

IMHO Although National Socialism exists marginally to the Right of Communism both political philosophies express Leftist statism. Allow me to debunk traditional association of German conservatives with Nazis by observing that German conservatives, like contemporary Canadian conservatives, simply picked the lessor of two Leftist evils from a limited choice of options.

[avile]

good point. germans consider Nazism to be a left wing movement

[Sam Gamgee]

Fascism and Nazism really belong on the same spectrum as socialism. Conservatives belong on the right side of the spectrum. But historical revisionism has placed Nazism on the right with conservatism (just further right) as though Fascism is somehow and opposite of Communism. In reality it is just another shade of Statism.

I think it was Hitler's betrayal of Stalin that started this revisionism. The National Socialists, who were well regarded by the left, were now the enemy. Socialists who previously were pacifists and wanted America to stay out of the war became Hawks and wanted American to aid the Soviet Union.