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