A fascist government is a strong Dictatorship that stressed nationalism and power. Mussolini and Hitler both used this type of government during World War II.

Nationalism caused World War II. The Axis nations were all convinced of their superiority over other people and countries. They invaded countries without warning and subjugated the citizens, whom they felt were inferior and undeserving of equal status.

Nationalism died in Germany as an aftermath of World War II. As part of the De-Nazification of the country in the postwar era, national symbols and identifiers of German culture became taboo as part of an overreaction to the extensive and overvalued nationalism of the Nazis.

Answer this question…Austrian citizens felt an increasing sense of German nationalism before World War II.