The fact that none of his policies were socialist, however, made him not a socialist.
Not only was he not a socialist, and opposed the name change from DAP to NSDAP but didn't yet have the power to prevent it, but he so detested the "left" of NSDAP, which wanted to merge some left wing economic policies with far-right social views, that as his control over the party tightened he got them progressively expelled, until he was finally able to have the rest arrested and/or murdered during the Night of the Long Knives.
That's how much he hated any hint of lifting socialist ideas.
More importantly, nobody contemporary to were in any way confused about their position. It was right wingers like Von Papen and Hindenburg who let him form a government. It was only the right wing parties who voted with NSDAP. It was only the right wing press, both in Germany and abroad, who expressed support for him. This attempt at trying to conflate NSDAP with socialism first started after the war.
Not only was he not a socialist, and opposed the name change from DAP to NSDAP but didn't yet have the power to prevent it, but he so detested the "left" of NSDAP, which wanted to merge some left wing economic policies with far-right social views, that as his control over the party tightened he got them progressively expelled, until he was finally able to have the rest arrested and/or murdered during the Night of the Long Knives.
That's how much he hated any hint of lifting socialist ideas.
More importantly, nobody contemporary to were in any way confused about their position. It was right wingers like Von Papen and Hindenburg who let him form a government. It was only the right wing parties who voted with NSDAP. It was only the right wing press, both in Germany and abroad, who expressed support for him. This attempt at trying to conflate NSDAP with socialism first started after the war.