Yes, of course. The real reason why the Communists hated the Nazis so much was because they were competing for the same territory.
Hitler got a lot of his ideas from Mussolini—who started out his political career as a card-carrying Communist.
Goebbels took a lot of his propaganda directly from a book called “Crystallizing public opinion” by Wilsonian progressive Edward Bernays.
I actually try to moderate my opinion of Bernays with the idea that he was more of a fool than an evil man. He did a lot of good things in his life and was genuinely horrified upon finding that his propaganda methods were being used by the nazi.
exactly, the same territory and the same audience