&gt; You do realize that concentration camps had been up and running since 1933, right?<p>You realize the camps were not exterminating people until after the Wannsee Conference in January of 1942, right?  That isn&#x27;t to say the Nazis weren&#x27;t murdering people before then, but mass murders didn&#x27;t start until the war started and were generally committed by the Einsatzkommando units in the field.  As for the racial policies of the Nazi Party, there was a disturbing amount of support for them outside of Germany prior to the war.<p>Still, Nazi metaphors are almost always an unnecessary hyperbole.