... 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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