The fascist's didnt make idle promises like the democratic Govts. ... It gave the democratic Weimar govt. ... Although Italy had been democratic since 1870 it had failed to take root. ... Hitler's Nazi Party it stood no chance. ... For the most part it was external factors that made the position of some democratic Govts. ...
The question is though, how have the Front and its founding leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, been able to penetrate into the mainstream politics of modern day democratic France? ... However, Le Pen was careful to distance himself traditional right-wing parties, and was also careful to steer the FN away from claims that they were a fascist party. As Alistair Cole explains: "From its inception the FN leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, strove to demarcate the Front from earlier, especially violent manifestations of the extreme-right tradition."1 Indeed Cole refers to the ...
The single party system made it easy for a totalitarian style leader to take hold of the reigns of power. ... This gained him support from the lower and middle classes and directly attacked the socialist party. ... Hitler was smart, he did not openly attack democracy and bring the direct scrutiny of its democratic oppressors, and he played the nationalism card, and used the Treaty of Versailles as the oppressor. This alone could not have brought the small Nazi party to power. ...
