@EckhartsLadder
Verhoven wasn't able to rewrite the book to make the Federation close enough to Nazis for his liking so he has to settle for adding a veneer of Nazism via the esthetics.
@PoetShevchenko
@EckhartsLadder
Verhoeven didn't want to rewrite the book because he didn't read it. He wanted to take the setting of the book to make his own movie, which was a very obvious analogue to the Nazis.