Fascism as an ideology involves, to a varying degree, some of the following hallmarks: Extreme Nationalism and super-patriotism with a sense of historic mission, cult of personality around a charismatic leader, racism and a self image as being a superior form of social organisation, attacks against both socialism and communism, repression and totalitarianism. ... From extreme nationalism and the cult of leadership grew racism, a belief in the superiority of one's own race and that the world was divided into superior and inferior races. ... In terms of both Italy and Germany, the use of...

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Both an extreme left and an extreme right were cultivated, as the Germans searched for answers. The loss of the war caused extreme poverty, which in turn let disease run rampant. ... They also preached violence and had a wing of the party known as the SA, or Storm Troopers. ... Communist and extreme-left parties also began to pick up votes. In this time of economic turmoil, voters began to turn to either the extreme left or far right. ...

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The ideology has been linked by some scholars to the socially radical Jacobins of the French Revolution, but others see it as a reactionary extreme-right conservatism against the 19th-century ideals of the Enlightenment (RoSo, 2002). ... There are four major, established interpretations of fascism: fascism as a crisis of the liberal state, totalitarianism, the extreme right, and as a revolt against modernity (Segre, 2002). ... In the 1960s, fascism became to be seen as an ideology of traditional conservative values pushed to the extreme right (Segre, 2002). ... First was extreme nationalism...

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Fascism includes extremes : patriotism, high-profile public work policies, and persecution of minorities. ... Fascism In The UK However, there is clear evidence that wherever fascist organisations are active, incidents of racial violence and harassment rise dramatically. ... Following Derek Beackon's election win for the BNP in Tower Hamlets in 1993, racial violence reportedly increased by 300 per cent in the area. The main fascist threat in the UK comes from the small number of people who carry out and incite violence and hatred against minorities and political enemies. ...

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To tackle this extreme sum of money, the Weimar Republic began taxing its already impoverished people. ... Violence was now the modus operandi of many Germans. ... Violence became the weapon of choice of the Nazi party. ...

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In Arendt's "Report on the Banality of Evil", she illustrates the frightening reality that it is possible, perhaps even human nature, for ordinary people to perform extraordinary acts of violence and cruelty given the right social or political circumstances. It is easy to be convinced that all members of the Nazi party were psychotic or extreme anti-Semites rather than normal, average people, often with families and friends. ...

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The most extreme form of violence against minorities between the years of 1880-1980 was lynching, which is putting a person to death, usually by hanging. ... Nazi violence guaranteed their swift success in seizing power and implementing racist political policy. ...

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The most extreme form of violence against minorities between the years of 1880-1980 was lynching, which is putting a person to death, usually by hanging. ... Nazi violence guaranteed their swift success in seizing power and implementing racist political policy. ...

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Finding an expeditious solution about the way things 'truly' are and expressing hatefulness, and in the churches case, abandonment of their families who do not express the same credences can lead to vex and violence, in more extreme cases, such as the holocaust, an entire population was slaughtered because of the same one-minded thinking. ...

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