No, he isn’t. Godwin’s Law invoked.
Is that: history doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes?
I won’t argue with your conclusion.
I do, however, think there should be a Godwin’s Godwin’s Law - that the first person who invokes Godwin be penalized.
I’ll call it Larry’s Law. The idea being that the complete prohibition to any allusion to the Reich, ever, is absurd.