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The Nazis literally did the first mass privatization of public services and dismantled social services in germany when they took power, I wouldn't say they had some socialist elements.
Even the elements they brought in, that people normally call socialist, but are just social-democrat creations, was because of the appeasement for the middle class, not the lower class.
Itally did it too in the 20s, here's a source for the german part: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2009.00473.x .
That's right: the Nazis were never socialists, not even remotely – but today they are even less so than Hitler's Nazis, even though they still pretend to be.
They had a socialist sub faction in the Strasserites who wanted to implement a sort of nationalistic class warfare. But they had lost the power struggle within the party by 1928 and by 1934 their last remnants were cleansed. The bulk of the Nazi leadership was never socialist and never interested in socialism.