... inferior races. Italians were heirs to the greatness of Ancient Rome, thus, could "recognise a barbarian in every man of non-Latin blood-. In 1934 Mussolini introduced the Anti-Semitic Manifesto della Rassa' which forbid Italians to marry Jews, while existing marriages were declared null. The Nuremburg Laws of 1935 deprived Jews of many basic rights. However, it was in ... The post war years saw strikes and demonstrations organised by the working classes and the growing strength of trade unions. Terrorists acts carried out by Communists and the emergence of a Communist state in Russia, e...

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... millions of SA members, whilst the KPD also had a huge paramilitary organisation. This meant Hindenburg had little choice but to appoint Hitler, as other plans had failed and the potential communist takeover was far worse than the Nazis in his eyes. As a right wing, old order conservative himself, it is likely that Hindenburg saw Hitler as the best of a bad number ... of options. As S Williams notes, 'there were simply not enough Germans who believed in democracy and individual freedom to save the Weimar Republic', making appointing Hitler nearly the only option the president had. ...

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... parties, they still followed similar philosophical beliefs. Furthermore, these beliefs all revolved around a form of totalitarian rule, just on different levels. Thus, Hitler's Nazi Party and Stalin's Communist Party were examples of true totalitarianism while Mussolini's Fascist Party also was indeed totalitarian, just of a lesser breed. Living from1889 to 1945, Adolf Hitler was a powerful leader who ... . Before this group gained power, Germany was suffering from the Great Depression, especially because of problems such as inflation and unemployment. Also, numerous conservatives were ...

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... two of the twentieth century's most famous single-party leaders; Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong. These two men, leaders of fascist Nazi Germany and Communist China respectively, both sought to make sure that within the borders of their nations, every citizen followed their rule. They consolidated their power by ... to the Nazi regime because arrests were the most common form of oppression of the opposition. The SPD (Social Democratic Party) and the KPD (Communist Party) were two opposition groups in Germany that had the majority of the support of the working class, who made up 45% of the p...

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... that encouraged the initial success of Hitler during the rise of fascism in Germany during the 1920's. January 5th 1919 saw an unprepared and badly staged Spartacist putsch, where the communist's led by 'Red Rosa' Luxemburg, captured the headquarters of the governments newspapers and the telegraph bureau. The Spartacist rising was easily crushed by the Freikorps. By January 15th ... the Spartacists were defeated completely, with one hundred (100) Spartacists having been killed, compared to only thirteen (13 ) Freikorps. Most importantly, Rosa Luxemburg and fellow Spartacist Communist lea...

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... Blomberg, he told General Francisco Franco on 26th July 1936 that Germany would support his rebellion. Hitler justified his decision by arguing that he was attempting to save Europe from "communist barbarism". Another reason was that it brought Germany closer to Italy, a country that was also supporting the military uprising in Spain. Hitler also knew that a Nationalist victory would give ... the political left established in January of 1936 by Manuel Azaña to fight the national elections due to take place in February(Spanish). This included the Socialist Party (PSOE), Communist Party...

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... Germany. These incidents include the great depts. Germany had after the Treaty of Versailles (Political Deal making), the great depression of 1929 (Germany at the time), and the fear of Communist rule in Germany, which increased the Nazi followers (Nazi Popularity). All these conditions aided Hitler to rise into power in Germany, however, the relative importance of these conditions, lay on ... Hitler to rise to power was the boost of followers that the Nazi party had after 1928. The fear of Communist rule in Germany made followers turn to the Nazi Government. "Ultimately, it may well be...

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... before the election, after heavy campaigning and national rallies, an arguably important factor to the first steps of Hitler's control occurred – the Reichstag Fire. Hitler, blaming it as a 'communist plot' saw for a Law for the Protection of the People and State to be necessary. Hindenburg passed this law, now banning any ... communist and socialist activity, with over four thousand thrown in prison and the Nazi Storm Troopers (Sturmabteilung – SA) communist supporters up in the streets, creating an atmosphere of fear against the Nazi Party, silencing anyone who was to speak a...

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... hatred. In Nazi Germany Joseph Goebbels was in charge of propaganda. On February 27th 1933 the Reichstag building went up in flames. Hitler said that Marianus van der Lubbe, a Dutch, communist was the culprit. This resulted in the German people fearing a hostile take over from the Communists and therefore President von Hindenburg signed for an emergency decree for The Protection of ... against them and by doing this he gained their trust, he then exploited their trust by manipulating people into thinking that the Communists were coming for them. By using anti-communist propaganda he wou...

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... or her beliefs without being caught by the Secret Police State organization. "Opposing the Nazi Government brought the risk of denunciation." The left wing communist party on the other hand was demolished by clever manipulation. When a former communist burnt down the Reichstag, Hitler convinced the nation that this event was proof that communists were a threat to Germany. A decree for the Protection of ... the Reich) was passed. This abolished the Reichstag and changed the entire German constitution in Hitler's favour. It allowed him to become a dictator and completely outlaw his main o...

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... else where it could be misinterpreted. Also an intentionalist could argue that it is highly useful and valid becuase it provided a blueprint for the gradual progression to a holocaust and a political manifesto for his Jewish policy. However the validty begins to take a different turn because although Hitler writes it, it's not for certain whether it's his actual views as he may doing ... ...

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... of questions. After the German occupation of Italy in 1943, the puppet regime that was in place continued to provide full cooperation with the Nazis. In November 1943, the political manifesto of this new regime declared that the Italian Jews were enemy aliens. In the following month, a police order called for the internment of all Jews. Adolf Eichmann, in charge of ... ...

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... Germany. This led to uprisings from these two sections of society. For example the Sparticast uprising was due to communists who wanted to overthrow the Weimer regime and set up a communist state. When the Weimer republic did show strength like when it crushed the Sparticist Rebellion by using the Freikorps, it was forced to disband the Freikops by the orders of ... ridiculous, although people who had taken out large loans (such as industrialists who were mostly against the Weimar Republic and on the side of the right since they feared the communist and their anti-capitalism) benefited,...

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... democratic ideals (all new states which emerged from the war, initially were dedicated to democracy. In addition one of the most important happenings was the creation of the world's first communist state. People were mostly looking for someone to blame for the war thus there was a general desire to reconstruct, repair, restore, recover and repay, in other words to turn back ... , after the letdown of the US to guarantee French security, was left with fear of a possible future German attack. The Eastern countries, like the French, feared both a German invasion and a communist advance west...

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... wing. Only in Bavaria did the communists gain control, setting up a republic in March 1919 which was ruthlessly crushed by the Freikorps in May of the same year. The main communist group in Germany at the time, the KPD, failed to make any huge differences in the country as they did not act quickly and when they did, it was to ... to take power. This is shown most in the opposition to the Kapp Putsch where the revolutionaries were divided over offers from the government which allowed the army to prevent a communist state being set up. A greater political strength was the constitution. It...

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... supporter of the 'eastern' militarist orientation. His cruel war experience, he later said, also developed in him an uncompromising iron will. Post-war Germany was in chaos. Communism rose, and communist movements rioted in the cities, some of them led by Jews. Eventually Germany turned from a militarist monarchy to a democracy, with an executive prime minister and a president that kept powerful authorities ... Germans lost everything they had. They blamed the peace treaty compensations and 'Jewish traders'. The political crisis that followed resulted in an emergency wide coalition, but...

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... after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the ladders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are ... ...

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... demonstrate them using historical facts from Germany's foreign policy, focusing more on intentionalist perspective. All these will lead to a conclusion. Nazism or National Socialism was the racist, antisemitic, and anti-communist ideology as well as the totalitarian policy of Nazi Germany. Those characteristics were applied during the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler in the German state between 1933 and 1945. In 1921 ... ...

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... in Italy in May 1923 as a term of abuse against Mussolini's Fascist government. In England in 1929 the term was used to describe both Fascist (Italy and later Germany) and Communist (Soviet Union) states. Indeed, these countries were ruled by a single mass party controlling the economy, the media and the arms of a state controlled through terror and a fixed ideology ; which, according ... ...

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... it paid to be firm with fascists. British opinion on the breach of the non-intervention policy was mixed. Some of the left wing groups for example, the I.L.P and the Communist Party wanted the government to support the republic against Spanish fascism, however the Labour part under its new leader did not want to become involved and Chamberlain was determined on ... ...

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... social and political strife, inflation, and economic problems; this was very similar to Germany's condition in 1923. Armed bands with a strong nationalistic bias, known as the Fascisti fought socialist and communist groups throughout Italy. On October 24 1922, Mussolini, with the support of conservatives and former soldiers, demanded that the government be entrusted to his party. He threatened to seize power ... ...

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... August 1934 is astounding." The rapid transformation was brought about by a combination of pseudo-legal measures, terror, manipulation, and willing collaboration. "By February 28th Hitler had convinced Hindenburg that the communist menace required another emergency decree to defend public order and security." Civil liberties as protected under the Weimar Constitution were distinguished. Within two months, political opponents were either imprisoned or ... ...

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... the Nazis. The totalitarian power continued with the constitution of the "Enabling Act", which proposed Hitler the power to make decrees with the status of law; ending elections and forbidding communist members in the Reichstag. Hitler systematically took control of the state government by using this method, and eventually German democracy was terminated. Thus by transforming the Reichstag in favour of ... ...

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... information has he not supplied? The problem with the cases that he provides is that they are all too similar and he leaves out a wide variety of common cases involving communist, priests, ministers, Jehovah's witnesses, and other political and religious opinion marketers. Not only does he vaguely ever talk about communism, but he very briefly mentions Jews in the book as ... ...

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... Nazis and Hitler, and collaboration of German businessman and industrialists. Germany had experienced governments of every kind of political amalgamation and character, had suffered a terrifying national bankruptcy, paralysing inflation and a Communist Putsch. It was on these premises of fear and memories Hitler had based his popular appeal for himself and the Nazi Party. "He had something for everyone in his bag ... ...

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