Yes. What you say sounds plausible. As for the term having nothing to do with Ashkenazis, I sincerely doubt it. One simply needs to accept the Zionist-Marxist-English-Communist propaganda machine was second to none in both world wars, still is c/- Hollywood, MSNME, online CO Alt. Social Media, it's the last four (five in the plural) letters of the word and the NWO has been an Ashkenazi's agenda from the beginning. Yes, my understanding is, Hitler did attempt to own the term for a short while in an effort to imbue it with the true spirit of his National Socialism but soon realised such an effort was futile, at the least outside Germany, in the face of such a ubiquitous propaganda machine.