# Adolf Hitler Up: [[Fascism, Nazism and the Left-Right Spectrum]] · [[Post Analysis - brivael on the Far Right Label (2026-10-24)|post analysis]] **Role in this topic:** the subject of the 'far left' claim - 1889–1945. Led the NSDAP from 1921; appointed Chancellor Jan 30, 1933 through a deal with conservative elites (Papen, Hindenburg) ◻; *Führer* from 1934 ◻. - In power: unions abolished (May 1933), KPD and SPD banned (1933), and socialists and communists made the first Dachau inmates (USHMM). The Night of the Long Knives (1934) killed Röhm and Gregor Strasser ◻. - Historians: Kershaw, "Hitler was never a socialist"; Evans, Nazism was "an extreme counter-ideology to socialism" (Full Fact 2019).