This is a very interesting one but I don't know where to start so I'll try to summarize it in a sentence: the English-speaking science-fiction world is very much influenced by the US military.
This isn't surprising as most "classic" science fiction authors of the 50s-60s were war veterans (both in literature and film, see Gene Roddenberry though his ideas were quite *unique*). And the whole science fiction culture of having spaceships, usually military spaceships, with specs and engineering and all that tends to very much attract that sort of demographic.
And I'm not saying that they're nazis, they will be often be very vocal in their hatred of nazism (and communism because #bothsides) but... we've discussed how the military, especially the US military mentality works. And there's often a current of "respecting" or "admiring" the "rival" because of their technical or strategic skills (funny enough, they often don't extend this to say, the USSR or China), like it's a neutral thing to do.
For example, there's a TNG episode where a sister ship of the USS Enterprise is the USS Yamato. And I guess that the ones who named it where like "the Enterprise is a big ship, what was other big ship? Oh the Yamato, let's call it that". But... you know what Yamato means, don't you? even beyond the fact that it's called after a WWII ship (as the Enterprise...), a Japanese Imperial ship. Yamato has many meanings but the fact that the fascist imperial Japanese choose the name of the Japanese land and race for their biggest ship wasn't a coincidence. I mean. If I was in Starfleet Command while naming ships, I would make a few objections.
Anyways, there was a fanmade Star Trek starship class which featured, among the names of other famous generals, a USS Rommel. And I'm sure the guy who made that was like "oh, famous general, but he wasn't super nazi so it's fine", but you have to wonder how the in-universe conversation about this must have been like.
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