Hitler & Mussolini

Fascism is one form of government that is represented in form and structure by an unyielding single-party dictatorship. Opposition under a fascist regime is oppressed through force, usually military. It is also marked by a fanatical nationalism, racism and militarism. This form of government originated in Italy during the early 1900s and achieved its greatest claim to infamy during the reign of Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini. In Germany around the same period of time, the National Socialist German Worker's Party was evolving under the aegis and leadership of Adolf Hitler. Known as the Nazi party, it represented merely a form of fascism which called for forcible opposition and elimination of the enemy and programs for promoting nationalism, racism, rearmament of Germany after World Word I and military aggression.

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

Related Essays

Fascism and Hitler and Mussolini .... shaped by Benito Mussolini and his followers, while fascism in Germany was twisted to serve the needs and social and political beliefs of Adolf Hitler and his .... (2859 11 )

Hitler's Final Solution and Vatican Policy .... But in 1938, Pius XI had directly and specifically confronted both Hitler and Mussolini regarding the threatened legal status of Jews in Austria and Italy and .... (4097 16 )

The Great Dictator .... A parody of Hitler's and Mussolini's fascism, Britain announced it would not release the film for fear of angering Hitler, while the film was immediately .... (2799 11 )

The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin) .... A parody of Hitler's and Mussolini's fascism, Britain announced it would not release the film for fear of angering Hitler, while the film was immediately .... (2799 11 )

German-Italian Alliance in WWII: Articulating the Underlying Human .... Moreover, even after Hitler pressured Mussolini to enact anti-Jewish policies after 1938, "Mussolini never supported the mass murder program...[and] never .... (1361 5 )

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

Category: History - H