William L. Shirer Quote
And though the very name of the Nazi Party proclaimed it as socialist, Hitler was even more vague on the kind of socialism he envisaged for the new Germany. This is not surprising in view of a definition of a socialist which he gave in a speech on July 28, 1922: Whoever is prepared to make the national cause his own to such an extent that he knows no higher ideal than the welfare of his nation; whoever has understood our great national anthem, Deutschland ueber Alles, to mean that nothing in the wide world surpasses in his eyes this Germany, people and land—that man is a Socialist.10
William L. Shirer
And though the very name of the Nazi Party proclaimed it as socialist, Hitler was even more vague on the kind of socialism he envisaged for the new Germany. This is not surprising in view of a definition of a socialist which he gave in a speech on July 28, 1922: Whoever is prepared to make the national cause his own to such an extent that he knows no higher ideal than the welfare of his nation; whoever has understood our great national anthem, Deutschland ueber Alles, to mean that nothing in the wide world surpasses in his eyes this Germany, people and land—that man is a Socialist.10