The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP). German.
Soviet Socialists and National Socialists were the same.
stm:Socialism is not, though it is moving in that directionm from capitalism to communism, according to Marx at least.
Marx was full of crap.
Socialism evolves from feudalism.
Capitalism evolves from Socialism.
Marx had it backward.
Stalin wanted no association made between the Soviet Socialist Republic and the German National Socialists. It was a Stalinist invention to call the NSDAP Fascists, when in fact, the word "fascii" is the Latin rooted Italian that does not translate...
The trusty old Ayn Rand Lexicon (edited by Harry Binswanger) will show this in better detail...
Historically, the National Socialists adopted much symbolism from pagan Rome, along with their hatred of the Jews. The Fascist Party of Mussolini was a natural ally. Many of the Germanic tribes came to Rome, not to destroy it, but to become a part of it...
The NAZIs were pagans, as were the Romans...
Only one comment: 'fascism' descends specifically from the Roman fasces, the bundle of sticks into which a hectoring blade was inserted. In the later Republic and the early Empire, the Consul's guards carried them as signs of authority (and, not incidentally, as crude weapons against the assassination of the Consul).
I'd no idea that bozoness could reach such an apex. Thank you for informing, very adequately, upon that point.