Italian fascism, in adopting the old Roman symbol of authority (the fasces), looked back to the days of the Roman Empire, which controlled much of Western Europe. This was a direct attempt to restore the glory days of the Holy Roman Empire. ...
"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...
Youth and National Renewal "Triumph of the Will," is an exceptional documentary by Leni Riefenstahl, filmed in 1934 and a masterwork of poetic film making. The state commissioned this film in an intention to strike an agreement with Germans as well as reinforce the idea of the leadership principle....
(The word fascism derives from the Latin fasces: an ax surrounded by a bundle of sticks that represented the authority of the Roman state. ... In 1929, he settled Italy's sixty-year-old con- flict with the Roman Catholic Church. He signed a treaty that granted independence to the papal residence in the Vatican City and established Roman Catholicism as the official religion of the state. ...
In 1926 the Hitler Youth was established to promote racial superiority among young Germans, by the time Hitler became Chancellor it had 50000 members and by the end of 1934, Schirach, the Youth leader, had succeeded in bringing under his control all but the Roman Catholic youth groups. ...
