This ultra nationalism was also evident in Nazi Germany with its policy of uniting all Germans in a Gross Deutschland and acquiring Lebensraum in Eastern Europe. Fascism offered an alternative to the system of parliamentary democracy which failed to solve the post-war social and economic problems. ... For Hitler, in identifying "goodness" and "superiority" with "us," there was a tendency to identify "evil" with "them." ... It was then an easy step to blame all societal problems on "them," and presuppose a conspiracy of these evildoers, which had emasculated and humiliated the idealised core...

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Such nationalism is illustrated throiugh the ideas that Hitler promoted to his people, that of the evils of Semitism and communism as well as the idea of the superiority of the Aryan race. ... Militarism was something which was also evident in the run up to WWII. ... One of its main aims was to solve the German problem, crippling it to the extent where it would never again be able to threaten the peace of Europe again, but not to the extent where it wouldn't be a healthy market for trading. In reality this problem lay unsolved, in stead those who signed the treaty were seen as "crimina...

• Word Count: 2024
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate