Comparing Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump to one of the most despised men in history is nothing new. Ever since Trump proposed a moratorium on Muslims entering the country and a crackdown on illegal immigration, the comparisons to Adolf Hitler have circulated. Many of those were covered here at TruthRevolt -- from Tom Brokaw, to Spike Lee, and other Democrats.

Yet, those instances are easily dismissed as soundbite bait. But who better to make the comparison for you than those who were actually under the tyrannical thumb in Germany, as did Dana Milbank of The Washington Post?

Just in time for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Milbank capitalized by using his column to give "grim warnings from Holocaust survivors" that Trump could be the next Hitler.

The column began with 85-year-old Auschwitz survivor Irene Weiss, who at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum observance day said that she is worried about her adopted homeland in the buildup to the 2016 election:

I am exceptionally concerned about demagogues. They touch me in a place that I remember. I know their influence and, unfortunately, I know how receptive audiences are to demagogues and what it leads to.

I’m worried about the tone of this country. It has echoes, and maybe more so to me than to native-born Americans. I’m scared. I don’t like the trend. I don’t like how many people are applauding when they hear these demagogues. It can turn.

Milbank, who has made a career of demonizing Republicans, hits at Trump, imploring readers, "There has never been a more important time for Americans to heed the moral authority of the Holocaust survivors still among us."

He quotes another speaker, Al Munzer, who as an infant, was hidden in the Netherlands after his family was killed by the Nazis:

It’s really frightening. When you see these mass rallies that Trump is able to attract, you really wonder: How are they buying into this message of hate? Thinking that Germany was somehow unique is wrong.

Milbank notes that some of the day's remembrance included stories of how Muslims helped protect those escaping Nazi Germany, including Munzer, who was helped by his host's Muslim nanny. This is carefully weaved into Milbank's charge of Islamophobia during "this time of open hostility to Muslims in America."

His piece crests with the recounting of one 87-year-old survivor's vantage point, who at 15 saw the black smoke from burning bodies rising through the chimneys in Auschwitz. Milbank bristles:

"Now an American presidential candidate has made scapegoats of immigrants, Muslims, Latinos, African Americans, the disabled, women. And for the first time, Martin Weiss hears echoes of his youth. “The guy scares me,” he said after listening to the ambassador’s tribute. “I don’t want to make any comparison to Hitler, but believe it or not his delivery and the way he conducts himself is very similar to Hitler’s way of doing things. He discredits everybody who disagrees with him. He’s insulting. He discriminates against everybody.”

Weiss continued: “Sooner or later, you know what happens in a case like this? That’s how Weimar Germany went to hell, because when Hitler came in, if somebody disagreed with him — guess what — he put them in prison or he had them shot or he opened the concentration camp.”

We are still far from that in America. But if anybody has the right to make the comparison, it is a man who saw the ovens of Auschwitz.

Milbank's plea is clear: a vote for Trump is a vote for Hitler.