Wolfgang: I, for one, much appreciate your role as voice of reason in all this - bringing in the facts in several of these threads where people start running off the track. People who use the image of Hitler in political debate are almost never interested in learning from history - only in manipulating the myth to promote some cause.
Hoffmann's story is one of the most polished examples I have seen. Terribus's myth is silly and shopworn, but that does not stop people from using it, over and over and again.

This has been said before. We need a moratorium - say for maybe, 50 or 60 years - on comparing people with Hitler.

If we need historical analogies, a more accurate analogy might be between Bush and the late Wilhelm II. Both inherited their power. Both loved to flaunt their power. Both were incompetent diplomats. Both pursued self-defeating foreign policies. Both made their nations hated, all around the world. Wilhelm II saw his nation brought low. And GWM may profit by his example.