Comparisons with the Nazi regime are natural, as they were one of the few that have been thoroughly dissected. But what we are finding in Iraq is simply the common traits of a tyrannical government. The bureaucracy and careful record keeping that we find so puzzling is in fact the life's blood of a regime such as this.
You have to keep records, how else do you know who to shoot?
Saddam's uncle, Khayrallah Talfah, was involved in the pro-Nazi group which briefly took control of Iraq in 1941, before the British intervened.