For example, three main parties during this time were the Nazi Party, the Communist Party, and the Fascist Party. ... Also, numerous conservatives were worried about a Communist takeover, because, by 1930, the Communists polled more than six million votes. ... Furthermore, Stalin's rule of his Communist Party also exemplified totalitarian values. ... This group attacked Communists, socialists, and other individuals who were thought of as enemies. ... True examples of totalitarianism were evident from the Nazi Party and the Communist Party. ...

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Due to their leftist ideas, they were clearly not in Hitler's good book and as a result, Hitler's Nazi regime arrested thousands of communists during the Reichstag Fire. ... In Mao's Communist China, the Hundred Flowers campaign was launched as a means of letting the intellectuals in China speak out. ... However, things got out of hand as Mao's CCP (Chinese Communist Party) realized that their power was being undermined. ... In China, a thought reform movement was undergone to eliminate the ideas of capitalism that were a threat to Communist China. ... It is clear that thou...

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Hitler said that Marianus van der Lubbe, a Dutch, communist was the culprit. This resulted in the German people fearing a hostile take over from the Communists and therefore President von Hindenburg signed for an emergency decree for The Protection of the People and the State. Propaganda was very successful in this case as the President and the citizens of Germany feared the Communists and thanked Hitler for his decisive action, which saved their Nation from Bolshevism. ... Hitler was using peoples fears against them and by doing this he gained their trust, he then exploited their trust by ...

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January 5th 1919 saw an unprepared and badly staged Spartacist putsch, where the communist's led by 'Red Rosa' Luxemburg, captured the headquarters of the governments newspapers and the telegraph bureau. ... Most importantly, Rosa Luxemburg and fellow Spartacist Communist leader Karl Liebknecht were murdered, stripping the communists of their leaders. Not only did the failed and fruitless rising influence people further from the communists, due to such unreliable politics, but the loss of both leaders suppressed the communist movement such that they didn't recover. Both fac...

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Hundreds of thousands of victims were confined to concentration camps because they were simply Jews, Slavs Gypsies, Social Democrats or Communists. ... In the ten years Hitler's hatred towards the Jews grew and his hatred expanded on to Communists and other political factions and he became obsessed with the notion of the ideal master race, the Aryan race that excluded any ethnic minorities and political opposition and included only pure Germans. ... Conclusion In total the German Nazi leaders established 22 Concentration camps and hundreds of extension camps throughout Germany, Austri...

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Hitler, blaming it as a 'communist plot' saw for a Law for the Protection of the People and State to be necessary. Hindenburg passed this law, now banning any communist and socialist activity, with over four thousand thrown in prison and the Nazi Storm Troopers (Sturmabteilung – SA) communist supporters up in the streets, creating an atmosphere of fear against the Nazi Party, silencing anyone who was to speak against them. ...

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Terrorists acts carried out by Communists and the emergence of a Communist state in Russia, ensured that Fascist parties grew up throughout Europe in opposition to Communism. ... Industrialists and businessmen, attracted by Hitler's anti-Communist stance, financed the Nazi party. ...

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The holocaust attends to an ideology which includes fascists doctrines, racial hate and the identification of the Jews as capitalists and communists in Germany, but most of all, Jews were blamed for the deep financial crisis the country was affected bye. ...

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This meant Hindenburg had little choice but to appoint Hitler, as other plans had failed and the potential communist takeover was far worse than the Nazis in his eyes. ... Instead it was the failure of other plans, as well as the potential for far worse outcomes in the President's eyes like civil war or a communist revolution which led to Hitler becoming chancellor....

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The motivation of fascism is also disputed as either being one of aspirations (for a cultural "regeneration") or of anxieties (e.g. for a communist revolution); both of these points of view are legitimate (RoSo, 2002). ... In the 1920s and 30s, liberal policies and institutions had failed, and fascism has only prospered politically in times of either economic crisis, or fear of communist take-over (or both). ...

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Nazism or National Socialism was the racist, antisemitic, and anti-communist ideology as well as the totalitarian policy of Nazi Germany. ... Of course, there were theories that connected the expansion with the willing to eliminate the communists. ...

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But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. ...

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We know that basic principle is against communism and liberalism, but while the students who are Die Welle do not regard mind of other people as a like fascist people, feeling or writing of the students is similar communist ideology. ...

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Then by that conviction, Hitler's supporters roamed the country, harassing Communists, Socialists and any others judged to be a threat to ensure that the Nazis achieve absolute power in the Reichstag. ... By March 1933 the Communists had been banned from taking their seats, and the Enabling Act gave the Cabinet a variety of legislative and budgetary powers and the authority to suspend the constitution. ... Germany had experienced governments of every kind of political amalgamation and character, had suffered a terrifying national bankruptcy, paralysing inflation and a Communist Putsch...

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In England in 1929 the term was used to describe both Fascist (Italy and later Germany) and Communist (Soviet Union) states. ... One of the essential step to the full dominance of the nazi party was the Reichstag Fire, which the Nazis blamed the Communists for, even though the origin of the fire is unclear and it's supposed that this was just a dishonest mean planned by Hitler to gain more power. ... The teaching of school subjects was changed to brainwash the young people : History was distorted to celebrate the Germans and blame the Jews and the Communists for the disasters, biology tau...

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Through conscious management, the government took control of the resources and workforce, therefore creating a true communistic economy. ... In order to rally the population around him, he blamed a fire in the Reichstag building on Dutch communists, which caused a "Red Scare ", and allowed for him to easily win the election. ...

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Adolf Hitler is one of the most tyrannical, horrendous, and sadistic leaders that have ever held a position of power. The chaos of the Third Reich and the Nazi indoctrination behind Hitler's dictatorship is not in total agreement within the historical scholarly community. How did Hitler extend his...

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The problem with the cases that he provides is that they are all too similar and he leaves out a wide variety of common cases involving communist, priests, ministers, Jehovah's witnesses, and other political and religious opinion marketers. ...

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Mussolini rose to total dictatorship more than ten years before Hitler's first failed attempt to 'conquer' the failing Weimar Republic government and both achieved this total rise in power in very similar ways such as the glorification of emotion. Benito Mussolini and Adolph Hitler realized that th...

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A totalitarian government is a "modern autocratic government in which the state involves itself in all facets of society, including the daily life of its citizens" (Bartleby). One person or an elite few who share similar views are usually in charge of the state and impose their totalitarian vie...

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Later that year Lenin introduced the "New Economic Policy" and the country seemingly began to regain control of the economy, despite the dismay of the communists. ... He says that Orff first employed his primitive idiom, the one now associated with his "Nazi" pieces, in songs predating the Nazi regime, to words by the eventual Hitler refugee Franz Werfel and the eventual Communist poet laureate Bertolt Brecht. ...

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"Fascism" When and why? Italy had suffered badly during the war - 460,000 soldiers were killed and the country was heavily in debt. the Italian army had been heavily defeated and had only won its first major victory at Vittorio Veneto in October 1918. Italy had been promised extra land by B...

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Like many European nations, Italy emerged from the First World War as a democracy in distress. Italy was on the winning side, but the war had cost nearly 700,000 Italian lives and over $15 billion. Moreover, Italy had received secret promises of specific territorial gains during the war, only to find those promises withdrawn when they con- flicted with principles of self-determination. Italian claims to the west coast of the Adriatic, for instance, were denied by Yugoslavia. Italy received most of the Austrian territories it demanded, but many maintained that these were inadequate rewards for ...

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