... mass support, and, during times of continuing crises, to lay claim to the reins of government. Fascism as an ideology involves, to a varying degree, some of the following hallmarks: Extreme Nationalism and super-patriotism with a sense of historic mission, cult of personality around a charismatic leader, racism and a self image as being a superior form of social organisation, attacks against ... means of enforcing discipline and uniformity of thought and action. In terms of both Italy and Germany, the use of violence or threats of violence to impose their views on others (fascism and Na...

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... legitimate (RoSo, 2002). Therefore, there is no one, universal fascism. There are four major, established interpretations of fascism: fascism as a crisis of the liberal state, totalitarianism, the extreme right, and as a revolt against modernity (Segre, 2002). In the 1920s and 30s, liberal policies and institutions had failed, and fascism has only prospered politically in times of either ... the Nazis came to power with a desire to return to a simpler, pre-industrial age (Segre, 2002). Fascist movements during the early 1900s exhibited common general characteristics. First was extreme ...

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... democratic new parliament, known as the Weimar Republic, was unpopular. A radicalisation of political opinion occurred, which polarised the politicians. Both an extreme left and an extreme right were cultivated, as the Germans searched for answers. The loss of the war caused extreme poverty, which in turn let disease run rampant. Tuberculosis, influenza and starvation were all rampant. This radicalisation culminated in the formation ... . They spread propaganda claiming world Jewry wanted to gain power and rule the world. The Nazis preached the theory of a world conspiracy organised by t...

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... was winning the demoralised hearts and minds of the German society by providing a sense of hope and the chance for revival. Hitler and the Nazi party increased their use of violence, brutality and popularity and in January 1933 Hitler was appointed chancellor. Once Hitler had achieved power and continued to win the support of the population it truly seemed as though ... he was able to perform anything. Firstly he ensured the defeat of any opposition by using means such as violence, harassment, policies and extreme propaganda. Anyone who was an opponent of the regime could not profess hi...

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... Europe. It was a response to the rapid social upheaval, the devastation of World War I, and the Bolshevik Revolution. Fascism is a system of government the advocates or exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with an ideology of nationalism. Fascism approaches politics in two central areas, populist and elitist. Populist in that it ... had a major influence on Mussolini. Sorel believed that societies usually became decayed and disorganized. This decay could only be slowed by the leadership of idealists who w...

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... billion war reparations payment due to the Allied nations. The settlements devised at Versailles represented, as one observer noted, a "peace built on quicksand" (Beck, et. al 762). To tackle this extreme sum of money, the Weimar Republic began taxing its already impoverished people. When tax revenue failed to meet the needs of the annual payments to the Allies, the Weimar Government ... hard by the war, were the targets of many debt collectors. Hitler fueled the rage of many of these farmers with his slogan "blood and soil" (Beck, et. al 802). Violence was now the modus operandi of man...

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... established a fully formed worldview with its foundations being the "racial struggle against Judaism and its political manifestation Marxism." Hitler's worldview involved aggression against other nations that would inevitably turn into violence and hostility if he were to be elected into power and be able to make his ideologies a reality. It was in cosmopolitan Vienna where Hitler's beliefs commenced to take form ... , and the second was to remove "Germany's Jewish cancer and to poison out Germany's poison". These two main policies were continually repeated in the mass rallies. These ral...

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... eradicate political opponents. When Rohm was deemed to have gotten too big for his boots, Hitler had him killed. External opponents such as the Communists were also eradicated either by violence in the form of the SS or legal means (Hitler banned all other political parties). This example serves as yet another component of the strength of the Fuhrer's dictatorship - by ... topple Hitler's empire. It is also noted that Hitler lacked any serious opposition to his dictatorship. Assassination attempts were few and far between and uprisings never exceeded a few brave and extreme individuals....

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... variation and they feel the need to discriminate. Groups, such as the Neo-Nazis, Black Power organizations, and the overly popular and publicized Ku Klux Klan, have been known for extreme violence, hatred and even murders of people of "inferior races." According to the bible, all humans on earth are descendents of Noah and his wife, and before that Adam and Eve ... ...

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... effective deterrent in punishing those who spoke out against the party. Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini each had their own secret police. Hitler's were called storm troopers (SA), used to arrange violence to eliminate Hitler's enemies. Stalin used the GPU (the new version of the Cheka) for intimidation and torture to make enemies of the state give false confessions of crimes against ... . Girls were taught to be good citizens and mothers, and boys to be good citizens and soldiers. Big Brother, Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini compelled all to listen and obey their extreme ideas, because the c...

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... at meetings and this put many people off. Hitler's private army, the Sturm Abteilung (S.A.), was led by a particularly unpleasant and violent ex-soldier called Ernst Roehm. One example of this violence was when they take tried to take force by Munich in a coup d' etat. The coup was unsuccessful, despite an initial success in reaching it's objectives of seizing power. Hitler was ... the 'Golden Years' of the Weimar Republic, Hitler had little to offer the majority of Germans. The treaty of Versailles was gradually being amended, and the economy was picking up. Extreme views, such as thos...

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