... and generals in Rome who were opposed to the Second Republic. At the meeting Mussolini promised the group 10,000 rifles, 10,000 hand grenades, 200 machine-guns and a million pesetas in cash in event of a military uprising. On the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War Mussolini failed to keep his promise ... war with France. Over the next three months Mussolini sent to Spain 130 aircraft, 2,500 tons of bombs, 500 cannons, 700 mortars, 12,000 machine-guns, 50 whippet tanks and 3,800 motor vehicles. In December 1936 Mussolini began sending troops to aide the Nationalist Front. This included 30...

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... , with their leaders employing great deal of demagogy to work for them and create the movements themselves, overwhelmed affected nations. A military dictatorship is purely a bureaucratic institution, reinforced by the military machine and based upon the disorientation of the people and their submission to it. After some time their feelings can chan! ge and they can become rebellious against the dictatorship, but ... (one or few people raise up and concentrate power), then it looms, and progresses, spreads over the masses and overwhelms control; it directs, supervises and eliminates any o...

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... even make a change on anything. Under the leadership of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, several hundred secure concrete pillboxes were to be constructed on the beaches to both antitank guns and machine guns and as well as both heavy and light weaponry. Additional firearms and minefields had been stretched alongside roads heading away from the beaches. Both antitank obstacles and land mines ... ...

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... society view them not as people first, but as a menace or "others" that had ruined the traditional German society only to further their own self interests. The propaganda machine was also hard at work during this time in order to further solidify this idea that the Jews were a massive problem that must be taken care of if the preservation ... ...

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... was designed to somewhat unite a politically divided Europe. Through this network, Germany would become the most industrialized and powerful country in Europe. By 1933, Hitler had turned Germany into a war machine and the phrase, "Today Germany, tomorrow the whole world "3. This powerful phrase perfectly shows how extensive and powerful Hitler's economic transformation of Germany was. While Stalin revitalized Russia, Hitler revived ... ...

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... open to criticism by claiming that these men were simply "ordinary men." He dismisses anti-Semitism as a cause of the murders. It is impossible to believe that the Nazi propaganda machine could not have affected these average German men. These men must have been a product of the society in which they lived. No one can dispute that Nazi ideology was highly ... ...

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... absolute power. Hitler was convinced Germany's past suffering was due to the Jewish population, and as a result initiated a campaign of hatred and isolation towards the nation's Jewish community. Hitler's propaganda machine promoted the theory that the Aryan race was superior to any other. Jews, Negroes and any other race that did not satisfy Hitler's Aryan mould were to be treated as ... ...

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... the German masses of the power of the Third Reich as an all conquering, superior phenomenon. Youth The mobilisation of German youth was a vital cog in the National Socialist propaganda machine. The drive towards creating a fiercely dependent and loyal German youth was formed on the basis of a rejection of the old bourgeois world in favour idealistic notions of a new and more ... ...

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... the Nazi Party, the only in the Weimar Republic able to appeal to all sectors of the population. The whole process was carried out by means of an effective propaganda machine that was organized by Goebbles and delivered to the people by a style of oratory that singled Hitler out of the more staid politicians in the Weimar. Hitler had the ability ... ...

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