How totalitarian were Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany? Giovanni Amendola first coined the word ‘totalitarian’ when describing the Italian Fascist government under Benito Mussolini in 1923 as different to conventional dictatorships. It is after this that the word was popularised to have both negative and positive connotations. However‚ German theorist Carl Friedrich and political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski collaborated to formulate a modern day politically scientific definition known as the
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Nazi Germany’s apparent political and military ally in Europe was Italy. Since 1925‚ Italian had been controlled by an autocrat leadership under Benito Mussolini. Italian fascism was very much the older brother of Nazism‚ a fact Hitler himself admitted. All of their intellectual resemblance‚ the connection between Hitler and Mussolini was rough and complex. The adjustment of their two countries was accordingly not as firm as many expected. Germany and Italy had become military allies by late 1930s
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Nazi Germany 1918 - 1939 November 1918: Germany surrenders and the Kaiser abdicates. Germany becomes a Republic. June 28th 1919: Treaty of Versailles Germany are forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles (November Criminals)‚ which many Germans describe as a ‘Diktat’. The Weimar Constitution (rules) is set up which makes Germany a democracy with a President‚ Chancellor and a Reichstag‚ elected by proportional representation. January 4th to January 15th: The Spartakist Uprising led by Communist
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How far did the Nazi regime rely on terror and violence to consolidate its hold on power from 1933-34? Although most of the Nazi regime’s policies and actions were legal‚ the presence of terror and violence towards it opposition and citizens was most likely the key to the Nazi’s staying in power. With the aid of the SS and SA‚ the Nazis were able to stage coercive elections only allowing us to suggest unreliable results when it comes to answering this question. Hitler was appointed as chancellor
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Book Burning In a reaction to the Nazi book burning‚ Helen Keller once wrote in a letter to the students of Germany saying‚ “History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before‚ and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them.” Right before World War II students from universities across Germany gathered to burn books. Book burning is lighting of fire to books or other written material‚ in a public area. It is usually done
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Upon examination‚ the dissectioning of the philosophical spectra of Nazi Germany during the Second World War holds fundamental discrepancy of core beliefs in the ruling of the social construct. With specification‚ the rise in German Nazism posed challenges in keeping previously enlightened philosophical prospects; the idea of a superior race scrutinizes the condemning of the inferior race by means of exercising the belief of utilitarianism‚ and the social discourse valued in the predetermined designation
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Nazi Germany relied heavily on control of the mass media of communications and expression and the mighty propaganda machine played a vital role in the Nazi party. In 1933 Hitler commented that (Lee‚ 30) "the art of propaganda lies in understanding the emotional ideas of the great masses and finding a way to the heart of the broad masses." Propaganda was a means to gain and keep the support of the masses and the crude and over simplified weltanschaung (psychology) projected by Nazi propaganda inspired
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at the camp‚ Hermann split up from the women and then had to undergo a selection process done by the Nazi doctors. These selection processes would determine who was too sick or too weak to work‚ and those people would be sent to the gas chambers. Hermann passed this first selection‚ and he was taken to the barracks. Only a couple weeks after his arrival
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Humans are instinctively hungry for power. During the Holocaust‚ Hitler portrayed this natural human quality the best. The Holocaust is a very good and prime example of man’s inhumanity to man because Hitler created the Hitler Youth program‚ the Nazis targeted the Jews‚ and people all over the world formed resistances against them. The Holocaust was a horrible event that should have never happened and will always appear that way no matter which angle you look at it from. It will forever brand
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World War II‚ by Maurice Isserman depicts the horrendous conditions that the prisoners of nazi concentration camps were kept in. Millions of Jews‚ gypsies‚ and other non-Aryans were packed into train cars and shipped to death camps all over Europe. Hundreds of inmates were murdered by the masses and cremated every day. Many worked as slaves under inhumane conditions. The way Jews were treated in Nazi Germany is sickening. Jews were taken from their homes and “Trains from all over Europe were soon
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