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[–] Porphyrogennetos 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
NSDAP wasn't really socialist.
Rohm, the leader of the SA (The Brown Shirts), actually expected Hitler to start making a LOT more truly socialist legislation after he came into power but he never did.
This lead to a falling out between the SS, along with most of the other military groups in the party against the SA, which Rohm headed up.
The Night of the Long Knives occurred partially because Hitler was not going to go down that Socialist route. Mostly it was because people kept telling him that Rohm was a traitor (He was homosexual, which everyone knew). Himmler hated him. Hitler never really believed it but finally bowed to the pressure. To this day, I believe most Germans still refer to that day as the "Rohms-Putsch"
Hitler only really ever embraced the nationalist part of the NSDAP.
I also wouldn't call Mao and Stalins system of government anywhere close to that of an ideal communist society, but that's a bit more semantic. Mao and Stalin clearly violated Marx' "Theory of Self-Determination" immediately after coming into power. Forced Collectivization is not Communism.