I don't think what the Germans did and what happened in Charlottesville are at all similar.  The punks and thugs in Virginia are wussy wannabees, vigilantes, wishing they could be real Nazis.  Hitler would have disavowed them, and so should everyone else.  Now, if Trump and the government start acting on their hate, then we will have an analogous situation.

I, too was an admirer of Gene Amole.