fascism in nazi germany
Nazi Germany isn't the only country that used fascism during the WWII era. Countries like the UK, Spain, Belgium, and Denmark had large fascist governments between WWI and WWII. However, none of these countries was more greatly influenced by fascism than Nazi Germany and Italy during WWII.
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From the time period of 1933 to 1945, Adolf Hitler was the chancellor of Germany. He was a fascist and his Nazi party used many facsist characteristics in their form of government. These are some examples below:
-Nazi Germany was devoted to their chancellor, Adolf Hitler -They strongly supported the military and focused on higher ideals, such as war, rather than the struggle of different classes -They also created a common public enemy to blame for their various problems in government: Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, communists, etc. They planned to exterminate these people as part of a "Final Solution" that they had devised. -They had a secret police called the SS and they controlled the social lives of the citizens by reading every letter sent and listening to every phone call made to make sure they weren't spreading information about the government and their plans to other citizens. This was a nearly unnecessary thing seeing as the Nazis controlled the the media and spread propaganda across their country. -They encouraged the youth of their country to support fascism by setting up the Hitler Youth program. This program trained boys aged 14 to 18 to be well prepared for a possible career in the SS. Fascist Italy also had a similar program called the Scouts. Using these various characteristics, the Nazis carried out their plans of exterminating all Jews and others and Hitler's eventual plan of world domination. All of these characteristics are similar to fascism and therefore Nazi Germany's government is widely thought of as fascist. Another term for it, since it is of the Nazis' origin, is Nazism. |