OK, one by one.
Obviously when the Nazi party came up, there was already a history of left wing thought in Germany and elsewhere, Marx, social democrats, communists.

Upbeat Tango Monday wrote: What was the german socialist viewpoint? (aka. main traits of @ssholes) -German workers were exploited and greedy jews controlled the banks, the media and the arts. Also, "less skilled" immigrants (romanians, poles, gypsies) stole jobs from the germans.

Hitler accused the Marxists (i.e., the left wingers) of being controlled by "greedy jews".
The communists and social democrats were by and large (admittedly with exceptions) internationalist and against racism, at least in comparison to all other parties. (This is about the German political landscape at the time; I don't deny that there was racism in some communist countries.)

-The State must control the economy and human relations in order to stop capitalism from "polluting" Germany

Hitler and the Nazis were very ambiguous about the economy and by and large very incompetent and contradictory in this respect. Certainly they were supported in the 1930s by German industry and businessmen, and they kept a good relationship with most of them throughout.
 

-Animals had more rights than some human beigns -Most environmentally conscious regime in history.

This has nothing to do with socialism; socialist thought at the time was not interested in this.

-Expropriation of private property

Again, the Nazis have a very mixed record in this respect.

-Control of the media -Censorship and racism -Prosecution of freethinkers and people who opposed the regime -Love of physical activity and healthy lifestyle -Support of atheism and pagan movements (like wicca) etc.

Fair enough, most of these were practised by dictatorships all over the world left and right.

since socialism is all about genocide.

As an ideology it certainly isn't. Not at all. Obviously there are examples of communist countries practicing genocide, but a better characterisation of this is to say that these were communists using fascist ideas rather than the fascists being actually socialist. Long before Hitler there was a history of racial hatred and ideas pointing at genocide from the right wing (much of this, particularly right wing antsemitism and nationalism in Austria before the first world war influenced Hitler before he came to power); none of this is part of socialist ideology.

The main focus was expansionism and economy: capitalism and mixed economy against central planning and control.

As written before, the Nazis were very ambiguous on economy and have been accused for good reason by incompetence and inconsistency in this respect. If you read "Mein Kampf" you'll find that there is really astonishingly little on the economy. This wasn't something Hitler cared a lot about.
 

Dear Damo, your thread reminds the subject of a conference I attended 2 weeks ago at the Shoah Memorial in Paris about the representation of the Jewish genocide in comics/BD/manga/fumetti/tebeos/historietas (choose your local terms) and, more precisely, a communication about the representation of WW2 in mangas.
I could try to make an English version of the notes I've taken then.

Oh, by the way, if someone is asking, I could tell the Nazis gave a cause for one of my great-grand-father which enroled to fight on the Eastern Front as a member of the Legion des Volontaires Français contre le Bolchevisme (Legion of French Volunteers against Bolchevism).
Not sure if we can call this "good work", yet...

Three days later and this is still the strangest thread topic you will ever see.

^ Yeah I think pizza is basically Greek, much like most Roman cooking (hides from Raffaella) .

^ yeah; Deep-dish  

Dean wrote: ^ I thought pizza was invented in Chicago.

no, that was Swiss cheese. it was invented during the prohibition. only genuine with bullet holes

To Lewian:

Right wing killed more people through history...yeah, sure. Italian and german socialists are not really socialists...yeah, sure.
You've said many things that are flat out wrong...and you are comparing a civil war and posterior military deaths that happened inside a country (Austria) who had lost its autonomy with the actual killing of millions of unarmed innocents in a wide array of countries and every single time communism was tried.
Btw, I never said Hitler was a marxist. I said he was a staunch socialist.

To everyone:

The thing some of you don't understand is that you can live your "communist dream" in a free country. Go right now and gather thousands of people, pool your money and resources together and live your communal life. I'm all for it! Why don't you do it ASAP? Just keep me out of it, man. Don't point a gun at me, don't take my money and don't make me work for you for free.
In a communist country I can't have private property, I can't choose were to work, I can't help others and I can't live my life. I have to do everything for the leader or the community.
That's the difference. You can be a commie in a free country, I can't be a libertarian inside a communist country. Communism is all about being an egomaniac, stealing resources, and making everyone equal...to you!
You don't want to live in a community right now, but you want to force me into one. How can that be done without force? How can I give you my home and money, how can I leave my family behind in order to gather rocks twenty hours a day if not by coercion? I mean, really... to say it can be achieved without force and without killing everyone who does not agree with you is childish.
I sometimes don't know how to live my life...and some of you think you can manage the lives of millions of people thorugh slavery. This is not a math problem we are talking about, but human lives.


Anyway, I'm done with this topic. Cheers.

Mussolini invented pizza. #facts

The Old Italian word meaning "point" is "pizzo", and it is still used in some Southern Italian dialects (my father did use it). However, the verb is "pizzicare", not "pizziare". Anyway, Wikipedia (and other sources) report a different etymology of the word.