User blog comment:KennyChief/S.H.I.E.L.D. is a UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT organization, not International./@comment-6127681-20151013043349/@comment-996391-20151013203843

It's the policy of this Wiki to consider every deleted scene canon if it doesn't contradict the established continuity. In fact, if that scene wasn't canon, there would be no explanation how Bucky and the rest of the future Howling Commandos ended up imprisoned in the Austrian HYDRA facility.

I know exactly what many high ranking Nazis thought about Hitler (I'm a former history student). But no matter how much the MCU is similar to the real world, you have to remember that it is still a fictional universe. Some differences are small (for example, Wilhelm Keitel being hanged six months earlier than in our history) and the other enormous (literally everything that happens in Iron Man and after). Johann Schmidt is not the typical Nazi. In fact, he's just using the Nazis to accomplish his own goals. That doesn't make him less of a monster, but he in one minute kills more Nazis than Captain America in the entire movie. Which means that if by some chance he had an opportunity to work for Stalin before he was employed by Hitler, he would take it. Would you then call HYDRA a Communist organization.

Also, don't forget how many modern HYDRA member don't like to be called Nazis (Grant Ward, Lead HYDRA Agent). Why? Because HYDRA betrayed Nazi Germany in 1943 and became completely independent. HYDRA's ideology is not Nazism, it's Hydraism (you just made me invent the new word).