Was Adolf Hittler in favor of communism?

Answer 1

No, Paul Von Hindenburg had a huge fear of communism. In 1933 when the newly appointed chancelor Adolf Hitler burned down the Reichstag, Hitler convinced President Hindenburg that it was the work of communists, and tht he should act upon this. Of course, Hindenburg did, thus while strengthening Hitler's rise to power.

Answer 2

No, he was a fascist. Fascism & Communism are however both extreme versions of Socialism. Communism is the most extreme version.

Both Fascism & Communism mandate central government control over all public & private matters in the nation through authoritarian/dictatorial powers.

Fascism allows for the people to own property, businesses, land, etc. Private enterprise & capitalism is permitted, however it is controlled by the government. Corruption (or crony capitalism) is a result of this non-free market economy.

Communism does not allow for private ownership. Essentially the people are slaves to the government.

Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933 by basically telling the Germans that he would fight & defeat communism. Almost all Germans feared Communism's spread into Germany from the Soviet Union. The Germans worked hard to acquire property, land, and businesses; they did not want to lose this. In exchange they were willing to give up some of their freedoms or rights.

Eventually, Hitler took more freedom & rights from the people, until very quickly he became the all-powerful evil dictator of Germany.

Answer 3

We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions." ~ Adolf Hitler (Speech of May 1, 1927. Quoted by Toland, 1976, p. 306)

As stated, the above quote comes from 1927, prior to Hitler's seizure of power in 1933. Between 1919 and 1933, the Nazi Party publically proclaimed stances all over the political spectrum in an effort to get into power- they even added the word "Socialist" to the Party's official name simply in an effort to gain more popularity. There are numerous examples of speeches by Hitler during that timeframe that explicitly state that the Party was socialist. At the same time, Hitler was privately courting wealthy industrialists in an effort to gain funding for his Party's rise to power.

However, once Hitler and his Party attained leadership in 1933-34, they quickly shed any semblance of socialism. One of the very first things that Hitler did after initially coming to power was to ban socialist and communist parties and have their leadership arrested. Hitler even went so far as to murder all of the socialist leaning Nazis, known as "Strasserites" during the infamous "Night of the Long Knives" in summer 1934.

Despite Hitler's 1927 speech above, worker salaries actually decreased after 1933. They abolished all unions, collective bargaining and right to strike- they even made it illegal to quit your job without your boss's approval! The capitalist system largely stayed the same (with the notable exception of the removal of Jewish people from it). Major industrial companies like IG Farben, Thyssen and Krupp benefited greatly from Nazi policy- contingent, of course, on the compliance of those companies with Nazi demands.

So yes, you will find numerous examples of Hitler in the 1920's proclaiming his socialist leanings; however, once in power and able to produce policy, Hitler showed himself to not really be even socialist in any way. Of course, Hitler also showed little interest in economic matters- he was more concerned with other things, like war and racism.

Answer 4

No. He saw the complete eradication of Communism as his mission in life.

Answer 5

No, in fact he arrested communist. He was a fascist.

Answer 6

No