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human
Because they weren't actually socialists. It says they called themselves that on purpose to sow discord and confusion.
gpt
Actually the national socialist party existed before Hitler was in control of it and it was originally legitimately *socialist* by basically every definition. Those aspects were later downplayed to gain popularity, and once Hitler came along and took control it shifted entirely to what we saw as the Nazis, and the socialist part of the name was just a relic of the past.  It wasn’t to try to slander socialists or to create confusion, it’s just what the political party was called and the name suited them for a few years.