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People often look at the political spectrum and see Leftists and Communism on one side, and at the complete and opposite end, Rightists and Nazism on the other.

I think that is a completely inaccurate way of looking at the ideological spectrum.

I believe the view that it is total anarchy (no government) at one end, and at the complete and opposite end, is total and tyrannical government.

In this model, the Communists and Nazis are clustered together, even overlapping near to the end of the total and tyrannical government. Constitutional Republics like ours (or, what ours used to be) are found in the left of center or right of center. Libertarians (at least the old school ones) would be found closer to the anarchical end.

This interpretation makes sense to me, but it also made sense to both Communists and Nazis in the years leading up to WWII. They found on both the Communist and Nazi sides that they weren’t that far apart from each other, and the other side was fertile ground for converts.

Your view of the political spectrum matches mine. Anarchists would also belong on the far right, but I think most that call themselves anarchists are really communists that only want the instability of anarchy to crash the system so communism can “build back better” (better meaning worse).

The Fascists (the real ones, in Italy), the NAZIs, and the Bolsheviks/Soviets were all authoritarian extremists.

I definitely wouldn't completely agree with the graph below, because like everyone else they try to lump the national socialists over with the "right", but it gives you an idea how the problem of one dimensional thinking ruins political discussions and causes a lot of people to lump groups and ideologies together that have very little in common.

In this case, the pertinent point is that fascism, communism, and socialism tend to either be an excuse for totalitarianism, or they end up having to resort to extreme oppression in order to force compliance with the system.