The left wants everyone to believe that Hitler was a right-winger when he was the leader of a party called National Socialist German Workers Party.
Hugo is an admitted socialist. So, either Hugo is an moron (a good possibility) or like most leftist he refuses to believe that Hitler was a socialist.
I guess these lefties think that just because Hitler hated the communist that makes him a right-winger.
In Germany, the labels "left", "center", and "right" originate from the sitting order in the parliament, i.e., the Reichstag. Ever since 1924, the fraction of the NSDAP was situated on the right side of the semicircle in which the seats were arranged, while the communists (KPD/USPD) were seated left from the democratic socialists of the SPD. As KPD and NSDAP were known for there street battles - kind of socialist in-fighting - this sitting order may have been only be chosen to reduce the number of brawls in the Reichstag. However, the label stuck...
“The left wants everyone to believe that Hitler was a right-winger when he was the leader of a party called National Socialist German Workers Party.”
The political spectrum is a circle. In reality the far right and the far left have a lot in common. Google for “Horst Mahler” if doubt.