My only hesitation with this is the myth that Nazis were ever very well organized, rational, or efficient in carrying out their schemes. If you set aside their brutality and aggression against some for a while, what is striking is that they were a lousy government.
Much of what they did in domestic policy was along the lines of Obamacare. Take a somewhat flawed system and make it a complete cluster-foul-up. And it was this way throughout their system of government.
To start with, at the top, Hitler was very paranoid about one or more of his lieutenants amassing enough power to displace him. So he created a patchwork of overlapping authority, cross communications, and irrational leadership.
The “rank structure” he established for civilians was just nonsensical, so everybody was getting “promoted” all the time. Think “Private, 5th class”, having to get promoted time and again to become a “Private, 1st class”, their next promotion being “Basic Corporal, 5th class”.
And while they were expert at brutalizing individuals, they were utterly impotent when faced with mass protests. One notorious example was when hundreds of wives marched to a political prison, walked right past the guards and took their husbands home with them. And the Nazis just stood there, having no idea what to do.
Again, as will Obama’s people, while they were great at brutalizing individuals, they saw people only as groups. So if they could formulate an “us vs. them” psychology against a group, they could finally act, as they did when faced with hated minorities.
Even then, they were foul ups. It was noted by a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto uprising that, when they began, they had something like a few pistols and a little ammunition; yet by the time it was over, they had pistols, rifles, lots of other weapons and ammunition.
At least 17 German soldiers killed, and 93 wounded, over months of fighting. And though they killed about 13,000 and captured 57,000 unarmed civilians, it is downright stupid that their casualties were so high or that it took so long.
I don’t recall ever hearing that the Nazis were ‘well-organized, rational or efficient’, other than in their destruction of the Jewish population. Like Obama, Hitler was into fundamental transformation towards his utopian vision, which required the New Aryan Man, raised from Nazi schools.
Leftists are incapable of learning from history.