From CtH: I never understood the real difference between Nazism and Communism, given that both built top-down, military-heavy governments that persecuted Jews and Christians. Then I saw something in Bruce Walker’s, The Swastika Against the Cross: The Nazi War on Christianity, that seemed to make a lot of sense. He said that the Bolsheviks eschewed all nationalism, while the Nazis embraced hyper-nationalism.
Sources:
Ludendorff quoted in The Swastika Against the Cross: The Nazi War on Christianity by Bruce Walker [Denver, CO: 2008], p. 76. Source given for Ludendorff quotation Days of Our Lives by Pierre van Paassen [New York: 1939] pp. 168-169.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Ludendorff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Hall_Putsch