Professor Caplan, why do you believe Hitler would have self-identified as being on the right? Sure he hated the communists, but he also hated liberal capitalists, and most traditional conservatives. I remember reading somewhere that in the Gestapo files they actually used the word "reactionary" to identify dissident clergy! Many fascists explicitly describe themselves as advocating a "third position" between capitalism and communism. Hitler probably thought of himself as a centrist!