Sadly, for almost the last hundred years every time evil rears its ugly head the words Nazi and Hitler emerge. This lends nothing to an intelligent analysis of the challenge and is intellectually equivalent to shouting "poopy-heads" at the offenders.
The handbook for manipulation of the masses was written by the Nazi facist political party that controlled Germany between 1933 and 1945 by Adolph Hitler. Michael Aflag, the founder of the Baath Party, adopted that political ideology. In the 1930s and 40s, Baathism’s founder, Syrian-born and French-educated Michel Aflaq, and a handful of his cronies, were “students” and admirers of Marx, Lenin, and Hitler. Aflaq’s alma mater, the University of Paris, produced numerous notable political leaders, such as Cambodia’s Pol Pot. On his return to Syria in 1932 Aflag worked closely with the local communists and wrote for their magazine. In the 1950s, in Iraq, young Saddam was an early Baathist, and in the 1960s became a personal associate of Aflaq. Saddam and the Baath “party” attained dictatorship in a 1968 coup, and, at Saddam’s invitation, Aflaq spent the remaining years of his life in Iraq, where, with irrepressible college spirit, he was on Saddam’s cheerleading squad.