# Richard J. Evans 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:** historian quoted against the 'socialist' reading - Born 1947. British historian; *Third Reich* trilogy (2003–08) ◻. - Via Full Fact (2019): "it would be wrong to see Nazism as a form of, or an outgrowth from, socialism… Nazism was in some ways an extreme counter-ideology to socialism". - Ian Kershaw, cited alongside him: "Hitler was never a socialist."