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In Germany this is especially entertaining: Die Linke are literally the only political party with seats in the Bundestag who don't think mass murdering of children is totally acceptable as long as the murderers belong to a good race and the children to a bad race.
Even the German Greens hold that view that the race of a person is more important than their actual actions in determining the moral acceptability of what they do, to such an extreme level that even mass murdering of children becomes acceptable if one is a Jew.
So calling Die Linke far-left is pretty much an admission that, at least for these people, in Germany NOT holding the same views of the value of human life and the importance of race as the NAZIs held, is an "extremist" position.
Are leftists humanitarian?
I like to think that the basic principle of being Leftwing is "the greater good for the greatest number" and you will notice that there's no qualifications there about some deserving more good things than others.
You will also observe that Equality is invariably a concern of Leftwing political ideologies, even if they diverge in for example thinking that we should aim for Equality Of Outcomes vs thinking we should aim for Equality Of Opportunity instead because the former isn't actually possible.
IMHO, being a Humanitarian naturally follows from wanting to maximize the wellness of everybody in an equal way.
In summary, people who are genuinelly leftwing out of principle (so, those who reached their leftwing political views from their own personal principles, not tose who are tribalist followers of leftwing parties or ideologies that merelly parrot "their" team's slogans) are Humanists in practice - in what they desire and what they do - even when not explicitly identifying as Humanists.