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Ian Kershaw: Hitler (2008)

I'm around 1926 in the timeline now. Goebbels' adulation, declarations of love and comparisons to John the Baptist or Christ for Hitler in his diaries sure are something... According to Kershaw the Nazi party became purely a leader party around this time after the Bamberg meeting where Hitler basically made it clear the party program won't be needing any changes and shortly later in a small update it was declared "immutable". This was because Hitler was not going to be bound by anything like that, Nazi policy was to be whatever he decided. It seems more like a cult than a political party in general (but of course there are other examples of this in the political sphere).

This also underlines how pointless it is to try to argue (as has become popular in some right-wing circles online) that the Nazis were "socialists" because the name of the party or anything written in the program of the party. I don't think Hitler's priority ever was to implement a specific economic policy beyond what gave power to him personally.