Most Germans wouldn't be able to recognize Nazism if it was doing the harlem shake on their dining table.
Mention to them that the only way Communism and Nazism differ is Nazism following Engel's nationalist approach to overthrowing capitalism rather than Marx's international one and Nazis having been obsessed with spiritual and Iranian occultism and you're met with blank stares.
Yet those are the fundamentals of Nazism everything else derives from. Including the Holocaust.
Same goes for the understanding of the Nazis "Nationalism". Most Germans just won't believe you when you tell them that it was an absurd use of that term and much more similar to the modern "pro-EU" mindset than the modern understanding of nationalism.
The Germans are propagandized into thinking the definition of Nazis is being called "rightwing" by the media and wanting decentralization of power and cultural homogenity (modern nationalism). Yet the left:
- has already its SA precursors back on the streets (Hammerbande, Antifa, "NGOs")
- is getting rid of free speech to the maximum extent they somehow can pull off within the limits of the law and beyond that through mandatory voluntary industry initiatives (e.g. "Trusted Flaggers")
- are manufacturing external enemies at fault for all wrong (the Russians)
- is spinning up the war machine (massive military spending at 5% of GDP, near limitless commitment to finance the Ukraine war instead of trying to push for peace)
- Are centralizing more and more power in the hands of highly intransparent or even unelected institutions (e.g. EU or international contracts)
And various other stuff. E.g. some of the stuff you can hear on e.g. party congresses of the German "Die Linke".