The Nazi imagery scenes in TFA were beneath anything Star Wars, and the film jumped the shark at that point. Also, Hans supposed death was silly in so many ways: On a bridge over a chasm, mimicking the Luke and Vader scene at Cloud City in ESB… father facing his son, who is literally a Vader wannabe… the beam of light on them, which fades as the son makes his attack…
I have never associated the award ceremony with Nazism. Just because it’s visually similar to a Nazi rally doesn’t mean they evoke the same feelings.
The speech in TFA was definitely Third Reich-ish. There’s really no comparison to the award ceremony in ANH.
That’s not to say I have a problem with the First Order being comparable to Nazis. Kind of trite and easy in terms of making them appear evil, but it didn’t bother me as much as other problems TFA has.