The Coming of the Third Reich (The Third Reich Trilogy Book 1)

by Richard J. Evans

Despite the change of name, however, it would be wrong to see Nazism as a form of, or an outgrowth from, socialism.

But from the very beginning, Hitler declared himself implacably opposed to Social Democracy and, initially to a much smaller extent, Communism: after all, the ‘November traitors’ who had signed the Armistice and later the Treaty of Versailles were not Communists at all, but the Social Democrats and their allies.