If you want to know where natural cures and veganism etc got folded into authoritarianism I would look a lot less to Hitler and more towards people like John Birch Society officer turned "take B17 not chemotherapy" snake oil pusher G. Edward Griffin. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Edward…
Griffin took the fluoride/vaccine-averse strains of Bircherism, wrote a book that blamed chemotherapy use on everyone from the Nazis to the Rockefellers to a dictatorial AMA and doing so found a template many since have followed
That was the early 1970s. And it's interesting because you read World Without Cancer and a lot of it is there -- suspicion of globalism, vast elite conspiracies, heroic contrarians of history silenced by scientific elites for fear of losing their influence.
Not everything in the book is garbage. Most of it is, but it raises some half-decent points about the relationship between industry, doctors, and regulators. It figures out how to create a conspiracy screed that is simultaneously anti-industry and pro-capitalist.
The key is to see the *regulation* of capitalism as something which allows shadowy forces to control most *current* industry. And, not coincidentally, it kicks back against regulation of areas like supplements where there's a viable business for conspiracy theorists.
Anyway, not nearly the only historical strain, one of many. But point in general is these alliances are pretty old, and often have a connection not to just what people believe but what sorts of profit they can make off what they believe.
Back of later edition of book for those interested 
It's just so darn modern, but it predates the web by ages
I haven't been able to find a first edition btw, to see how much was changed, if anyone reading this thread has the original, I'd love to get a table of contents from it.
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