[Adolf Hitler on Nazism and socialism:] “Each activity and each need of the
individual will thereby be regulated by the party as the representative of the
general good. There will be no license, no free space, in which the individual
belongs to himself. This is Socialism—not such trifles as the private
possession of the means of production. Of what importance is that if I range
men firmly within a discipline they cannot escape? Let them then own land or
factories as much as they please. The decisive factor is that the State,
through the party, is supreme over them, regardless whether they are owners or
workers. All that, you see, is unessential. Our Socialism goes far deeper
. . . .
“[T]he people about us are unaware of what is really happening to them. They
gaze fascinated at one or two familiar superficialities, such as possessions
and income and rank and other outworn conceptions. As long as these are kept
intact, they are quite satisfied. But in the meantime they have entered a new
relation; a powerful social force has caught them up. They themselves are
changed. What are ownership and income to that? Why need we trouble to
socialize banks and factories? We socialize human beings.”