My Frau, er ... my wife, is from Germany and she has, on many occasions, spoken of this very topic. While she was born decades after the rise and fall of Hitler, she acknowledges that he was a master orator (even though we just hear gutteral Deutsch and see an angry dude with a funny moustache).
She sees through Obambi and repeatedly warns, and I quote: “Zis is not dee man zat zee American people zink that he isss. Zis country is about to elect its own ‘Little Adi’...”
Unfortunately, I learned early in marriage not to question her gut instincts on a person’s character...I am sad to say that once again I think she is correct. Sigh.
I’m first generation American on one side of my family with my relatives coming from Italy. My 83 year old mother thinks Obama in Mussolini.