The term 'totalitarianism' was first coined in Italy in May 1923 as a term of abuse against Mussolini's Fascist government. In England in 1929 the term was used to describe both Fascist (Italy and later Germany) and Communist (Soviet Union) states. Indeed, these countries were ruled by a single mas...
At the beginning most of the members of the Nazi Party were disgruntled former soldiers and members of the lower middle classes. ... In such a state common good is placed over individual good, opponents are ruthlessly prosecuted and the armies as well as the police forces serve as political weapons. ... Girls were educated to become good housewives. ...
Members of the Nazi scientific community were to serve as alert biological soldiers (Crum, 33). These soldiers conducted research on non-consenting camp inmates in order to demonstrate a hereditary basis for group differences in behavioral and physical characteristics in humans (Caplan, 286). ... Objectors to the use of Nazi research believe that nothing good will come from this research. ...
The man appears to be kind, gentle and a good leader, like an angel, but underneath he has the threat of violence and therefore is a deceitful, liar too. ... So he would have had to hear the story from someone else, like Hitler, or a soldier that wouldn't say a word against Hitler, so the story could easily be made up to make Hitler. In source Cb he is hiding behind Hitler in a sort of scared, frightened pose which I also think is like an "ohh good shot Hitler, go on do it again" pose. ... From the info from each source you can get a good picture of Goebbels, I think that he is right b...
Fascism as a political totalitarian movement of the right was born in Italy in 1919 with the name Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, meaning Italian Fasces of Fighting and by 1923 the Fascist movement came to power after the so-called 'March to Rome'1 and very soon after, under the dictatorial government of Benito Mussolini took complete control of society.2 In these years, the passion for nationalism on which the Fascist ideology was based found breeding sites everywhere in the world where the wounds of the Great War were still open. Most importantly though developing side by side wi...
As if from nowhere, in 1933, a black cloud of hate began to rise over Europe and quickly darkened the sky. Before the storm was over, twenty years later, some forty million people lay dead in its wake. As a result, the map of the world had been reshaped. The only way to explain how such a thing could happen is to go back to where it all started. At the end of World War One, Germany had many problems. ...
The Growth and Implementation of Hitler's Continental Expansionist Foreign Policy Program One of the most interesting historiographical debates about the Second World War concerns the nature of Hitler's foreign policy. Everyone knows that the Second World War was horrible, even worse than the First, but it has yet to be unequivocally decided what exactly was Hitler's role in bringing about such a catastrophe. The most important issue relates to the question of whether or not Hitler had evolved a clear and coherent foreign policy by the time he assumed office and ...
