That's a neat story. The Nazis did some terrible things and it actually makes me happy to know that somewhere there was a Nazis official who was baffled
The society itself was not communist, but It was definitely ruled by communists. Even Marx called himself and the people who followed his ideas communists, not "socialists seeking communism." When people say a country was/is "communist," they mean it's being ruled by Marxist-Leninists, not that it's achieved the hypothetical level of society that usually only Marxists are familiar with.
When people say a country was/is "communist," they mean it's being ruled by Marxist-Leninists, not that it's achieved the hypothetical level of society that usually only Marxists are familiar with.