Hitler States "I Am a Socialist" and Goebbels Proclaims "A Socialism of Heroes"

“Our socialism is a socialism of heroes, of manliness,” declared Goebbels, who came from the left wing of the Party.

A “socialism of heroes” implied endless hymns to the Worker: every dictator in Europe must have posed at some time as his country’s First Peasant or First Worker.... “I am a socialist,” Hitler stated, “because it appears to me incomprehensible to nurse and handle a machine with care but to allow the most noble representatives of labour, the people, to decay.”

--Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century (New York: Vintage Books, 2000), 130-131.