Point 1: It seems that people like to link everything that is evil to nazism. According to Chomsky, the words "nazism" or "fascism" only have a pejorative meaning. The contemporary world, he points out, forgets that nazism was a real ideology. As an ideology and not as some satanic cult of vampires, nazism espoused a set of viewpoints. Some of these viewpoints, like respecting your mother and family, are actually admired today. Others are not. Treating all of the opponents of nazism as somehow good, like Churchill who said that he would make a pact with the devil himself to fight Hitler, only demonstrates a crude understanding of morality and the world itself. Stalin's ideological warriors killed far more people than Hitler's racial warriors. Was he a nazi too? How about Mao? Or maybe Tito? Maybe the Ruandese are actually neo-nazis?
Point 2: The coorelation of Islam with Nazism is profoundly absurd. The argument runs like this:
1. Islam tends to despise the Jews
2. Hitler hated the Jews
Conclusion: Islam and Nazism are therefore linked.
This argument is worthy of "Medieval Times". It is specious, fallacious, deceptive and stupid. Anything can be connected. Try these examples:
1. Bart likes the colour red
2. The nazi flag had the colour red
Conclusion: Bart is a nazi.
Or maybe this one:
1. Bart loves his mother
2. Hitler loved his mother
Conclusion: Bart thinks like Hitler.
Or maybe this one:
1. Bart hates Jews
2. Hitler hated Jews
Conclusion: Bart thinks like Hitler.
Point 3: Many nations sided with Hitler for a host of reasons: strategic (Finland), political (Hungary), coercion (Vichy France), ethnic tensions (Slovakia), ideological (Spain), etc. The Irish for example entertained a high opinion of Nazi-Germany. Why? Centuries of oppression by the English made them look favourably on England's enemies. Why? The enemy of our enemy is our friend. It is that simple. The Irish were not bitter antisemites. Nor were most of Germany's allies for that matter.
This post is merely trying to fight the modern tendency to reduce complex historical developments to some pathetic display of medieval logic. We can only learn from the Nazi disaster if we at least try to understand the complexities of the era. We learn nothing if we reduce the issue to the brutally simplistic dichotomy of good/evil found in "Star Wars" or most Hollywood movies.
By the way, simply quoting Himmler or Hitler is meaningless and futile. For every quote that supports one argument, others destroy it. Hitler for example admired Britain at one moment and hated the island the next. Hitler even spoke admiringly of Poles and other Slavs on occasion. Anyway, Hitler was often visibly amused by Himmler's ideas. To suggest that a side comment by Himmler or Rosenberg or even Hitler was Nazi doctrine is absurd. Ideologies and governments do not work that way. Many things are stated and debated. But there is only one direction of action. And that action is more often pragmatic than it is ideological.