On the other hand the communists were pretty consistently on their heels in terms of size and popularity at the time. So affecting their popularity and reach might have gone a long way
That's actually a good point. Maybe Hitler didn't matter much for the early rise of Nazism or for the pretty impossible military goals of the Nazis, but was actually vital for their marketing efforts, and caused the whole fascist takeover that way.
On the other hand the communists were pretty consistently on their heels in terms of size and popularity at the time. So affecting their popularity and reach might have gone a long way
That's actually a good point. Maybe Hitler didn't matter much for the early rise of Nazism or for the pretty impossible military goals of the Nazis, but was actually vital for their marketing efforts, and caused the whole fascist takeover that way.