Hitler was not a leftist

[Xithras]

133. Hitler himself once said "The basic feature of our economic theory is that we have no theory at all"

That's probably the most truthful statement he ever made as the leader of Germany.

Hitlers writings, and more importantly the writings Nazi's like Goebbels and even some of the Nazi economic ministers who survived the war, have still made it fairly clear that they saw existing major private corporations as a means to an end. Their end game, had they won the war, was to nationalize companies they saw as "essential" to the government, and to allow the remainder to operate freely so long as they played within the rules. The Nazi's didn't have a problem with companies making a profit, but they had to be profitable for the Nazi's too, and more importantly, were not allowed to do anything that ran counter to the "ideals" of German nationalism. They were strong backers of mercantilism, and believed that foreign trade positions should be determined by military might, and not by a bunch of corporations negotiating treaties.

As for the statement, "Hitler was the front man for high finance"....well, I don't know how to respond to that other than to tell you to read up a bit more on it. Hitler regularly and forcibly condemned "high finance" and western capitalism as a Jewish conspiracy to control the world through its banks and banking institutions, a position that is STILL parroted by Neo-Nazi groups today. He seemed to genuinely believe that international banking and corporations were part of some Jewish plot to make national governments subservient to their will. He opposed it because it saw capitalism as weakening the German state (because capitalists are typically more worried about their money than their nation), AND because he hated everything he percieved as "Jewish".

Of course, we have to keep in mind that we're trying to assign logic to the plans and statements of a man and party who were only consistent at being contradictory and illogical. Hitler, at various points in his leadership, accused BOTH the Marxists and the Capitalists of being Jewish conspirators. Third Position Economics, the economic theory pushed by the WW2 fascists, is fairly consistent with that inconsistency.