You need to look at how he convinced the people to follow him Their party generated a ton of social programs to help them get out of the depression. They actually modeled their social programs after Rosevelt, and his New Deal concepts. They sold the people with the socialist idea, so yes originally they where. I think instead of reading biased views alined with what you want to believe you need to read historical fact. The people where sucked into their ideology through social programs and such things as state building projects like the autobahn.