the Nazis weren’t reenacting a relatively recent one play-by-play

Actually they were, they were copying fascist Italy under Mussolini, down to the "roman salute" that Mussolini lifted from Hollywood (and was almost certainly an early Hollywood invention) and given both Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy coexisted in time, they had an interesting geopolitical relationship, with Nazi Germany at first looking up to and emulating Fascist Italy, but then later they reinstalled Mussolini into power in Italy as a puppet state of Germany's