For the next idiot to claim Nazis were Socialists

National Socialists were Socialists to the same extent the people of Communist East Germany were "Democratic Republicans"

Hitler wanted the german economy to be run by a few large companies he could control as opposed to many small companies he could not. In that sense he was a socialist. USSR also has socialism in the name. See the pattern?

I love it when people use sources they don't actually read.👏
From your source
Retrospectives: The coining of Privatisation and Germany’s National Socialist Part. p.189-190
"Sidney Merlin published “Trends in German Economic Control Since 1933,” in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Merlin agrees that Germany’s National Socialist Party was looking not only for business support, but also for increased Nazi control over the economy (p. 207): “The party, moreover, facilitates the accumulation of private fortunes and industrial empires by its foremost members and collaborators through ‘privatization’ and other measures, thereby intensifying centralization of economic affairs and government in an increasingly narrow group that may for all practical purposes be termed the national socialist elite.” Merlin was aware of Sweezy’s work, but instead of “reprivatization” he used the word “privatization,” which may be the first time this term is used in the social science literature in English."
Do you understand what your source is saying? Hitler "privatized" industry by giving control to Nazi Party members and Nazi organizations. He did not allow individual private control of the means of production as we use the word privitized today. He makes this clear in an interview with Richard Breiting, "I want everyone to keep what he has earned subject to the principle that the good of the community takes priority over that of the individual. But the State should retain control;every owner should feel himself to be an agent of the State….The Third Reich will always retain the right to control property owners.”-Hitler
Against the mainstream: Nazi privatization in 1930s Germany explains how the Nazi Party used "Privatization"
"Whereas the modern privatization in the EU has been parallel to liberalization policies, in Nazi Germany privatization was applied within a framework of increasing control of the state over the whole economy through regulation and political interference."
Yes, Hitler and his Party were socialist in their own words and actions. Read "Those Damn Nazis" where they explain why they are socialist. Look at their government control of the means of production where "private property" was still subject to state control.

In addition:

IG Fargen was the company most involved in the Holocaust. It was a private company under private hands, ditto for Hugo Boss. Socialist leaders were jailed, sent to concentration camps and executed by Nazis. In addition, trade union leaders were arrested and most trade unions were banned.

Nothing socialist about that.

Socialism is the government ownership or control of the means of production and distribution of goods.

The Nazi's seem to have done that quite effectively. Changing the definition to make you feel better about your political persuasion doesn't alter the fact that hundreds of millions of people died in gulags and re-education camps in the 20th century in the name of socialism. We have the 21st century's shining example of "democratic socialism": Just look what it has done to what was once the richest country in South America, Venezuela.

Nazism had a Keynesian command economy that was the product of the time and military build up. Corporate profits increased and trade unionists were jailed.

Yes, anyone who claims that Hitler was a socialist is an idiot and its an attempt to say NAZIs were left wing instead of right wing. Nazism is a middle class authoritarian dictatorship which protects property rights when the legitimacy of bourgeoisie rule has collapsed. The alt right is an embryonic form of it, whether realised or not.

The way to diffuse power in society is to strenghen the family,keep federal government small and distribute power to local governments. Have lots of competitive companies competing for the talents of a highly educated workforce. Socialist policies concentrate power and therefore defeat their own objectives.

Yep. Right wing Americanism does exactly the same thing. Takes words the rest of the world uses in there correct intended dictionary definition, and then uses them in political speech to give them different terms of reference.

The point about America calling itself a democracy is a good one !

Shameful they've been doing it since before independence.

I don't think Nazism is necessarily defined by having nationalised industries and a controlled economy.

Its perfectly possible to have a pro capitalist neo liberal dictatorship. Like Pinochet's Chile

We would eventally get the same kind of result if Bernie Sanders "reformed" our economy. He would start out trying to do the right thing and it would spin out of control until a guy like Stalin or Hitler took over. History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes.

Buffalo wings are named after the city, not the animal.

IG Farben, Krupp, Audi, BMW, Bayer, BASF, Deutsche Bank, etc., etc. -- and those are just Nazi collaborators that were based in Germany, not outside the country. There are even reports of major US companies doing behind the scenes business with the Nazis after the start of WWII.

Clues in the title. National Socialism.