And here's Timothy Snyder, who is merely an expert on 20th-C European totalitarianism and thus a "fake historian," on some more specifics.
Yeah, I know: to call fascism fascism is to be fascist. If that kind of grade-school, no-I'm-not-you-are gaslighting just grinds you to a halt, as intended, then you might well be part of the problem.
"Oh, golly gee! These people are monsters, but I might have one hair askew on my head--it's all the same!"