... in Vienna lived of the money left to him by his parents and also government grants issued to him for being classified as a orphan student. But these financial resources were soon exhausted and he drifted through various menial jobs without ever setting a definite career. He slept on park benches and in flophouses and wore shabby and torn clothes which people ... those government officials he had tried to overthrow. When the Great Depression Struck in 1929, he explained it as a Jewish-Communist plot. This explanation was widely accepted by many Germans. Promising a strong Germany, jobs, ...

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... feeling, such as, the black shirts in Italy and the brown shirts in Germany. Italian fascism, in adopting the old Roman symbol of authority (the fasces), looked back to the days of the Roman Empire, which controlled much of Western Europe. This was a direct attempt to restore the glory days of the Holy Roman Empire. The Italians were anxious to wipe out the shame of Caporetto and to gain the promised lands denied to ... 1934. One element shared by all fascist movements, racialist or not, is the apparent lack of consistent political principle behind the ideology political opportunism in ...

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