Is Nazi and communism the same thing?

Answer 1

No, not by a long shot.

Nazism, or National Socialism, was a right-wing movement created in Germany following the first world war. They were not socialists in any common sense of the word. Ideologically, they were more akin to the Fascists of Italy than any socialist movement preceding or following them. They were rigorously OPPOSED to communism, as well as trade unions, other kinds of socialists (actual socialists), homosexuals, gypsies and, of course, Jews.

Communism was a political movement and ideology developed by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and several others in the latter part of the 19th century. In 1917, during the October revolution, communist forces overthrew the government of Russia and formed the Soviet Union. During World War II, Soviet communist forces were allied with the United States, Britain and the rest of the Allies to oppose Nazi Germany.

Nazis were opposed to communists and communists were opposed to nazis. It is logically impossible to be both a nazi and a communist.