Pat is impossible to defend when he says things like this. He still thinks Hitler would have been no problem to the US if he had taken Russia. Never the mind their planes would have been in striking distance of North American cities.
Indeed given the close similarities between Germany and Russian socialists (which they all were) it is impossible to defend the view that somehow the Nazis were better than the NKVD and Stalin. Rubbish.
The favored treatment of Hitler came from the aristocrats in the Ruhr Valley, who thought they could manage the little socialist, and co-opt the union workers from the Party.