True Hitlerism Proclaims Itself as both True Democracy and True Socialism; Liberalism Has the Distinction of Being the Doctrine Most Hated by Hitler

They insist with varying degrees of emphasis on the fact that democracy and liberalism are two entirely different principles dealing with different problems. To practically all of these analysts, who have seen the rise and the preliminary victories of contemporary totalitarianism, it was self-evident that this form of tyranny has its roots in the democratic (plebiscitarian, majoritarian, egalitarian), and not in the liberal-libertarian, principle. Thus, writing about National Socialism, a contemporary author remarked:

True Hitlerism proclaims itself as both true democracy and true socialism, and the terrible truth is that there is a grain of truth to such claims . . . but one fact stands out with perfect clarity in all the fog: Hitler has never claimed to represent true liberalism. Liberalism then has the distinction of being the doctrine most hated by Hitler.

--Erik Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Liberty or Equality: The Challenge of Our Time, ed. John P. Hughes (Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, 1952), 21.