Revisionist nazi history also extols its industrial and bureaucratic efficiencies willfully disregarding the corruption and ineptitude of it's leadership and most importantly, its purpose and the end result
There's also the "they were fighting for something" ("at least it's an ethos") and "they were forced into it" lines of reasoning which is just apologia for atrocities and genocidal project
Propaganda-soaked westerners also think of communism as decidedly not part of The West (ie. not white) and therefore not good
Anti-communism as a project precedes Nazism by decades
Authoritarianism is bad
Nazism was Authoritarian
Communism was Authoritarian
Nazism and Communism are the same and are bad
Regarding the rehabilitation of nazism:
Revisionist nazi history also extols its industrial and bureaucratic efficiencies willfully disregarding the corruption and ineptitude of it's leadership and most importantly, its purpose and the end result
There's also the "they were fighting for something" ("at least it's an ethos") and "they were forced into it" lines of reasoning which is just apologia for atrocities and genocidal project
Propaganda-soaked westerners also think of communism as decidedly not part of The West (ie. not white) and therefore not good
Anti-communism as a project precedes Nazism by decades
Just some thoughts from my experience
All built on the most horrific slave labor regime imaginable.