Well.. before the animosities between the Nazis and the rest of the world ended up in WWII, a large part of the western world was really, really into “that idea”… It is only after Germany lost, and everyone used the Nuremberg trials to place all of their sins on the plate of the NAzi-s ( as if they did not have enough of their own) — that the Nazi’s became the really “bad guys” and the epitome of evil which we recognize today…
In fact, there was a point in the mid to late 30-s when Fascists and NAzis were more popular than any other political.social movement in the west. People tend to forget that some of the most evil elements of Nazi ideology ( like Eugenics and “racial hygiene” ) were actually pioneered in the US and Britain, and that the Germans only pickled up on what were, at the time, very popular “scientific” theories…
Just makes you wonder, how would we be remembering the Nazi atrocities and the Nazis themselves today if it wasn't for the fact that they ended up like they did?