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No, the Britannia article is written by a commie-sympathizing sophist desperate to distinguish that murderous Socialist ideology from another murderous Socialist ideology.

By the late 1920s, however, with the German economy in free fall, Hitler had enlisted support from wealthy industrialists who sought to pursue avowedly anti-socialist policies.

Saint-Simon and early utopian socialists never called for public ownership, just public control through central planning. Industrialists surrendering control to the state (Ein Volk) is entirely socialist, more the pity that the author of your article doesn't understand it as such.

Otto Strasser soon recognized that the Nazis were neither a party of socialists nor a party of workers,

The Nazis thought differently and conflict theory (class struggle) is a Marxist concept, not a Socialist one.

In April 1933 communists, socialists, democrats, and Jews were purged from the German civil service

The Krasnaya Gvardiya were the model for Squadrismo and the Schutzstaffel - the Cheka for the Gestapo where a majority (70%) were former communists (nazi rindersteak).

Lest there be any remaining questions about the political character of the Nazi revolution, Hitler ordered the murder of Gregor Strasser, an act that was carried out on June 30, 1934, during the Night of the Long Knives. Any remaining traces of socialist thought in the Nazi Party had been extinguished.

Good thing communists never murdered their political opponents otherwise we couldn't write this simple minded garbage off as the "not real socialism" argument.

Do you have anything better or are you going to take your own advice and read a book?