similarities are almost identical. >> today this idea may seem controversial. but as the nazis were rising to power, it wasn't controversi controversial. it was common knowledge. november 28, 1925, a tiny article printed in the "new york times" describing the early internal struggle for the identity of the nazis. a riot broke out after a nazi speaker claimed that lenin was the greatest man second only to hitler. and the difference between communism and the hitler faith was very slight. it wasn't just some nobody in the nazi party who believed this. it was this man -- hitler's closest ally to the very end and his hand-pick successor as chancellor. joseph gerbils. because it was so controversial, gerbils a master of propaganda stopped talking about it in public. but his private writings revealed his change in approach wasn't a change of