Hitler & Mussolini

It may come as little surprise that two leaders with such common socio-political viewpoints would join forces to create one of the most unholy alliances in the history of mankind where barbarism, fanaticism, and world domination are concerned. What is more unique, however, is the ways in which the two men were able to rise to power. Hitler, almost defeated before he began, endured to become the worst leader in known history. Mussolini, exiled and jailed, and then freed was basically a puppet of Nazi Germany, but that did not mean he was almost as skilled as Hitler in using a combination of methods to w

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nouncements were taken as oracles. In their eyes he was a hero whom they naively trusted to perform the impossible if it were necessary. He was endowed by them with that highest degree of prestige which emanates not merely from the recognition of one’s own inability to imitate or compete with such a person, but from the belief that he possesses an out-of-the-ordinary, superhuman power, that a special star is guiding his destiny. It is the basis of what Max Weber has called charismatic leadership,” (Abel, 1938: 181). To some level or another, this quality has been seen in all mass leadership examples. There are some who feel Hitler was easily able to manipulate such large numbers of people because of the inherent nature of the form of Fascism he chose to support and adopt, National Socialism. There are some who feel this was perfectly suited to a “castrated” Germany after the war. They believe that in Hitler there was a voice who could help them alleviate the psychological ailments they were experiencing after losing the war, “National Socialism is a symptom of a psychological malady with which the post-war middle class of Germany as a group was affected. This group suffered from acute paranoia, with all its typical delu
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