This film makes the essential point that Hitler did not succeed because he was Hitler - he succeeded, for a while, because the Germans believed as he did, that they were morally, physically, and mentally superior to everyone else. It was a form of mass insanity and it needs to be seen that way. Such delusions can overtake any society at any time that loses its moral compass, and it threatens to happen here, although comparisons of Trump to Hitler are, as yet, a far stretch. More concerning is our fetishism of militarism and penchant for authoritarianism. Only by seeing clearly can these traps be avoided. This is a wonderful film.
