I don't think it's clear Hitler was a man of the left. In the early days, yes. But we don't know what Hitler's true ideological convictions were after he came to power, because they were so different from that of his early political career.
so your argument is that Hitler had a conversion experience after getting into power that he never mentioned and which has eluded his biographers?
If you could please point me in the direction of Hitler's later advocation of a free market?
They attacked the family as the fundamental unit of society?
yes. for the Fascist, the State was the fundamental unit of society, and everyone's primary relationship was with it. As Mussolini put it, "All within the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State".
I don't see this at all. They wanted women to have as many children as possible
that's true, and gave medals awards and all manner of benefits to those who had more than their share of genetically desirable children. What they didn't really care about was whether or not the woman was married to the father, as exampled by your next point:
There was a special breeding program for Aryan couples that did involve having children out of wedlock, but that was just a program of the SS.
The SS as a whole did not represent the Nazi party, but it did represent it's more radical elements.
not really. the SS existed as a parrallel organization to the Abwehr and the Wermacht. It's common for ideological dictatorships to do this - witness the KGB in the USSR, and the GRB and IRGC in North Korea and Iran today. The SS was there specifically to swear allegiance to the Nazi Party and Hitler in particular due to Party distrust of the traditional military leadership (as they were largely made up of old-school Prussian nobility).
When I say "radical", I mean from the standpoint of trying to ensure the most "racially pure" Aryans were born in the greatest number.
well, yeah, that was also generally the policy of the Party and the Policy of the State.
Paganism was just Himmler's idea of replacing Christianity with a more Germanic, and less Jewish, religion.
It was hardly restricted to just Himmler. Hess, for example, was a member of the Thule Society, and that is where Nazis' drew the Swastika from.
It certainly was not a policy that the National Socialists were trying to pursue as a whole. The reason that the churches were persecuted during the war is because people like Martin Niemöller openly criticized the regime. The National Socialists tolerated religion as long as it didn't question their policies.
eh, dependent. Nazi's also accepted the argument (drawing from both Gibbons and Kant) that Christianity had weakened the Teutonic peoples, and was therefore a long-term threat to their taking their rightful place in history. Nazis' accepted what they called "Positive Christianity", by which they meant Christianity without the Old Testament, the Pauline Letters, the doctrine of Original Sin, the existence of Hell and the doctrine of Grace... Christianity was either to serve the state (all within the state), or it was an alternate power center, and was then to be destroyed.
You're going to have to do better than that to show that militarism is a common feature of leftist governments. In Germany, the militarists were the most conservative elements, such as the military and industrialists. These people were not leftists by any stretch of the imagination.
you are very incorrect. In Germany between the wars, militant nationalism and expansionism was the belief system of the wide majority of the populace, who saw themselves as having been brutally cheated and humiliated to a place below their natural station. If anything, it was the Prussian nobility who thought that Hitler was pushing too far, and would destroy the nation through unsustainable expansionism. That, after all, is why they eventually repented of their deal with the devil, and turned on him. It was the Ivory Tower academic types like Haushofer who were urging that the German people naturally take control of the Euroafrican "pan region".
in the meantime, if you want to know about the commonality of militarism as a left-wing impulse of the time, you may wish to research the Wilson and FDR administrations. organizing society along militant lines was considered good for the state (who found its' job much easier), good for society (who would now be better organized) and good for the individual (who would now be better disciplined). The CCC was overtly military in its' organization, FDR's cabinet urged him to deputize the American Legion as an "extraconstitutional" private Army answerable only to him in the 30's, the National Recovery Administration (NRA) head Hugh Johnson suggested that FDR should dismiss Congress and the Supreme Court (temporarily) in order to fully exercise Mussolini-like powers, while Walter Lippman urged FDR to assume "dictatorial like powers". Woodrow Wilson
did assume dictatorial like powers; running a brownshirt-like thug force known as the "American Protective League", having people arrested for criticizing his administration (a man was arrested, for example, for explaining in his own house that he did not wish to buy war bonds), and seeking to control the entirety of the American economy through War Socialism, which was later to become the model from which the New Deal drew.
So the Social Democrats and communists in Germany had significant racist and nationalist elements among them when compared to the right wing parties? How about the Liberal and Labour parties in Britain? The Democrats in the U.S? These were all leftist parties. I know as a extreme conservative, you have every incentive to demonize liberalism in any way possible, but the assertions you're making are just ridiculous.
I'm not out here to demonize anyone - certainly no one is suggesting that modern liberals are racists just because Nazi's were lefties. However, yes, indeed, in fact, racism and nationalism were very much a part of the left-wing movements of the day in the West. You may wish to do some reading on the history of Eugenics in this country (hint: some of our progressive "racial scientists" were working with their counterparts from a particular German political party).