Peter Handscomb channeling Peter Ingram on that shot <| sep |> Hitler , whom without the financial and political support of industrialists could not have risen into power , was proindustrialists for that very reason . No , it was a populist movement with a lot of anticapitalist rhetoric , not an industralust one . Just read what he happened , what Hitler has said and written instead of relying on American postwar antiNazi propaganda which the media still keeps repeating . the effect was that the workers around Germany suffered at the hands of capitalist industrialists since they were no longer protected . Not really . Nazi Germany had the best workers rights and welfare programs . which the countries that were under Nazi rule still continue to have . The Nazi trade union was functionally useless , did little for German workers , and was mostly a tool of the industrialists to give the impression of protection . As are all trade unions . but it was one of the most successful and useful to workers in history . I highly doubt that there has been a better one which is not a continuation of the same .