Wow, blast from the past.
Germany was a free-market economy from the time Hitler took power until his death.
No. It was a
corporatist economy. It became a freer economy
after WWII, which is why it then took off. Under Hitler, however, the economy had featured everything from Price Controls to Centralized Allocation of resources.
But I notice you did not answer the question - can you point me towards Hitlers' celebration of a free market?
That that is a left-wing idea, not a right-wing one.
:shrug: yeah - the Nazis wanted lots of good Aryan kids, and weren't
terribly concerned how they got them. Much like the left-wing welfare states of today, the Nazis paid people to have kids.
I say again, the SS represented the more radical elements of the party, and their beliefs and practices did not represent the German state or National Socialist party as a whole.
They wanted a stable family in addition to a high Aryan birth rate.
But Hess and others didn't want to supplant Christianity in Germany with paganism. That was Himmler's idea.
This has little to do with left-wing vs right wing or family values.
The Prussian military caste pretty much backed Hitler's expansionism, but some were a bit apprehensive about another world war. They wanted a strong German military, but they also wanted to use it.
I won't disagree with this. This certainly was true during the early 20th century, but to ignore the racism and nationalism of the Right would be disingenuous.
Most of this seems to be rather minor disagreements - I think that at best the military was in favor of a series of limited objectives; retaking land lost after WWI, restoration of national pride, etc. But you were pretty much correct when you described the Nazis as "a moderate socialist state with a fiercely nationalist stance".
As for now? The problem with ascribing racism/nationalism to the Right becomes a matter of definition - and this is why I don't like the conservative/liberal debate, either. In the U.S., Conservatives
are Liberals - Liberalism is what they are trying to preserve. Liberals here are Progressives who took on the L name because the P name became too much of a political dead-weight (similar to how many of them then went back to P when L got a bad name). In Europe, Conservatism has traditionally meant Crown and Church - Nationalism has been the emotional call of the Left-wing movement there, as well, since the French Revolution. Now it gets' confused, and people mistake shades for a totality - all desire to maintain national autonomy is not "Nationalism", except insomuch as you are willing to weaken the word to where it is meaningless. So Leftism (who may call themselves Liberals), having abandoned nationalism (except when it comes to trade policy, where they are very nationalistic indeed), has moved on instead to supra-nationalism, the immanetization of the eschaton through supra-national projects instead. It's the same ole same ole, but with a different Savior mechanism.