Garraty suggested similarities between the two systems were: having a strong leader, an ideology stressing the nation, the people, the land, the state control of economic and social affairs, and the quality and quantity of government propaganda. ... He believes the conflation of the monumental which he describes as "backward looking" as reflecting the political ideologies of the Third Reich and other totalitarian regimes, as well as the association of modern architecture with liberal democracy and the social welfare state as being too simplistic. ... Therefore neoclassicism could n...

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Upon taking office in early 1933, Hitler and his government prohibited all Communists assemblies and Communist media. ... What seems to be the most shocking aspect of this law, which as a result made Germany a totalitarian state, was that the Nazi party was able to achieve this status with little opposition from other political parties. ... For example, General von Epp, acting on behalf of Hitler, had several storm troopers expel the government of Bavaria on March 9, and replaced them with a Nazi government. On April 7, Hitler's government issued new legislation, which dismissed ...

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This situation created calamity in the German political arena that resulted in the weakening of the newfound government headed by Heinrich Bruening in the Weimar period. ... Hitler rejected Papen's suggestion for a Papen-Hitler government persisting that there must be a chancellor. ... This seizure of power marked the death of the Republic, the abolition of the federal structure that remained since 1871 in the German Reich, and the birth of a Nazified Germany under a totalitarian regime. ... Furthermore, just a month afterwards, the German state governments were discharged and replaced by...

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