Another source of the Nazi Party’s popularity was its liberal borrowing from the intellectual tradition of the socialist left. Many of the men who would become the movement’s leaders had been involved in communist and socialist circles.

— Götz Aly Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State (2007)

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