In my opinion it makes no sense to speak about Nazis for those Parties and guys of 1918 and earlier. The word is a negative nick name which is educed from the title National Sozialist(isch). No doubt that in the early 1920s in Central Europe there was a chaotic politial situation with lots of political ideas, mixtures, groups, streams, parties etc. I think it is not correct to identify groups from these times with the German Nazis of the later 1920s with groups or parties of 1915 only if the names of these parties sound similar to the early name of the Nazi party, something with national and with workers. Many of them were conservative, nationalist, unprogessive, the anti-Semitism was existent as one can see with the propaganda against Rosa Luxemburg and the Bavarian revolutionaries 1918 but not that devastating as it became in the 1930s - an old European christian-occidential tradition. This anti-semitism is after my knowledge one of the main criteria whether it was a socialist movement or not. Socialist thoughts and anti-Semitism do not fit together. One may not mix up the enviousness of the petty bourgeois and owners of the small businesses which brings them to vote for more money and opportunities for themselves with the socialist idea to make the richness of the land or of the world for benefit of all people. One can see this mix-up in the social structure of Hitler's Nazi party.

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