<p>The following excerpt from James P. O'Donnell's <em>THE BUNKER</em> (1978, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, pp. 261-262) is instructive. O'Donnell is quoting Artur Axmann, the Nazi youth leader, recalling a conversation with Goebbels in the Hitler bunker on Tuesday, May 1, 1945, the same day Goebbels and his wife would kill themselves after she killed their children.</p>
<p><br />"He said one of the great accomplishments of the Hitler regime had been to win the German workers over almost totally to the national cause. We had made patriots of the workers, he said, as the Kaiser had dismally failed to do. This, he kept repeating, had been one of the real triumphs of the movement. We Nazis were a non-Marxist yet revolutionary party, anticapitalist, antibourgeois, antireactionary....</p>
<p><a href="http://constitutionalistnc.tripod.com/hitler-leftist/id9.html">From: Hitler was A Socialist by John J. Ray M.A., PhD</a></p>