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Being anti-gay was an area where the Nazis went above and beyond tradition. Sure, there were a few Nazis who were able to get away with gay sex, allegedly, but the median man accused of sodomy would have very much preferred to be in the Kaiserreich.
The Nazis were not big on Christianity or traditional families. Basically, the Fuehrer needed cannon-fodder. Turning kids into Nazis was not the job of the family, but of their youth organizations. As long as both partners met the Nazi definition of racial purity, the Nazis had no problem with supporting single mothers.
Their economic politics are likewise downstream of their ideology. Like every aspect of the nation, the economy had to be under the control of the Fuehrer. That is hard to accomplish if your economy is based on small businesses, so favoring big companies made sense. Typically, non-Jewish industrialists were not considered enemies, a lot of them had supported the NSDAP financially and did thrive under them. But ultimately, the Nazis called the shots, telling Hitler that your factory would not produce tanks because you believed that cars would be a more profitable product would not have gone well.
I don't know a lot about Nazi art, but I think generally their culture was a melange of different trends which were in the water supply at the time, together with a largely faked appreciation of the pre-Christian history of the German peoples.
So I guess I mostly agree with you, the TL;DR version is that the Nazis were a revolutionary and not a conservative movement, even if they kept lots of the social structure in place and embraced their version of RETVRN. I think the Fascists and Francoists were more pro-Christian and pro traditional family values.
Francoism wound up as a de facto theocracy, so it can accurately be pointed to as a genuine example of pro-Christian societal upheaval(and would've gotten away with it to, if it wasn't for Vatican II).
So would the median man accused of anything else. 'The Nazis were far more brutal than average' is a statement that's just true, it isn't specific to homosexuality.
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