Talking of Nazis, I heard two things about them recently.
The first is a curiosity. A local film critic (who is quite good actually ) reviewing The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo sequel - something about playing with fire - said at first she was disappointed with TGWTDT because it left so much out of the book. One of things she said it left out was Stieg Larsson's account of the Nazis in Sweden. I have no idea what that means, as I haven't read the book.
She saw the film again on TV and really liked it, so long as she treated it as different to the book. She also liked the sequel about fire.
The second was most interesting. This man (who writes articles for the New Republican occasionally, which really put me on guard, but he did come across very sensible and reasonable - not a raving neo-liberal or anything like that) spoke of how during WWII, the Nazis in Germany, under the direct support of Hitler, set up a project with the Muslim Brotherhood, from Egypt.
Now you would need to know who the Muslim Brotherhood are. If you don't, then enough to know that the entire Islamist extremism had its first manifestations from the Muslim Brotherhood. They wrote the main philosophy of the movement which has become recently controversial as one of the main thinkers, who I believe is still in prison, wrote a recant of many of the founding principles. I expect things have move too far now for his recant to have much influence, and especially as the Taliban and the Saudi wahabis now do the major generation of Islamist influence.
But the thing this man pointed out, was that the Nazi-Islam project was successful in reworking basic Nazi fascist principles into an Islamic paradigm. Those early founders of the Muslim Brotherhood returned to Egypt infused with new ideas. What is amazing is that it was reworked so well, that we don't now see any connection, but if you think carefully you can see that modern Islamist thought is really just European fascism dressed up in Arab clothes.