What are the differences between the rise of fascism in Germany and Italy?

Answer 1

There were a lot of differences (especially in the beginning before Italy became dependent upon their alliance with Germany and changed to be more Nazi-like). In fact, Nazism and fascism are quite different. Nazism is basicly Hitler's racist ideas draped in with some fascist polices and ideas to make them seem more like a philosophy. But three glaring differences were: 1) Fascism was not racist or anti-Semetic (e.g. the Italian Fascist party had a higher percentage of Jews in it than the general population of Italy; Fascism considered "race" to be a matter of culture, not Biology. Looking at race this way, white, black, American Indian, Hispanic and Asian Americans are all of the same "race" because they share the same culture.) 2) Nazism developed and stressed the Fuehrerprinzip (Leader-Principle). This said, in essence, that the Leader was the country. Only he could interpret what the country wanted/needed. His words was in effect law; and his opinion was truth. Fascism, although it did stress a powerful Government, did not put that sort of emphasis on a single person. (But that was definitely changeing by the end of the war.) 3) As stated above, Nazism developed out of Hitler (and others of course) racist ideals and concept that race and race-competition drove history. Fascism, on the other hand, developed out of socialist-anarchism.

Answer 2

Quite a few differences can be seen in the rise of Fascism in Germany and in Italy. Just one was the more pervasive influence of German Fascism: it seeped into nearly every corner of German culture, whereas in Italy it was a primarily political force. Another was the savagery of Fascism in Germany, as it ruthlessly stamped out competing or undesirable social groups and individuals in its rise to absolute power. By contrast, Italian Fascism, though savage enough in respects, was never marked by, for example, any self-driven systematic oppression of Jewish Italians.

Answer 3

Well, first off, there's a distinction in names. Fascism (which is what Italy had) and Nazism (which is what the Germans had) are different. There's a lot of similarities, but there are some fairly major differences.

Fascism was an outgrowth of Socialism in Italy. Basically, Benito Mussolini, the guy who pretty much founded and ruled the Fascist Party, split with the Italian Socialists about World War I- they opposed it, and he thought it was a good way to unify the Italian people against a common foe. This split led him to go in the opposite direction- after fighting in the war, he became extremely nationalist and militaristic (socialists oppose both of those concepts). However, he didn't embrace capitalism and Western democracy either. Instead, he wanted to forge a new kind of country where a single all-powerful leader would guide it to "greatness", and it would be neither capitalist nor socialist/communist. The Fascists invented what they called "corporatism"- to oversimplify it, they merged big business and government, and these groupings would run sectors of the economy.

Nazism was originally a bunch of drunken, hyper-right wing racists in southern Germany who were angry about how World War I ended. A veteran of that war, Adolf Hitler, eventually joined the party and quickly became its leader. Although he greatly admired Mussolini, and even tried to model his party on Mussolini's, the party, which became known as the National Socialist German Workers Party, or Nazi for short, was quite different. The Nazi Party was extraordinarily racist, especially antisemitic, as well as militaristic and nationalistic. Hitler didn't particularly care about economics, and his regime basically formed an economy that we would call today "crony capitalism"- it was still capitalist, but major corporations were given preferential treatment in return for doing things to help the government.

Once in power, the two separate ideologies did look very similar with a cursory glance. Both were extremist yet unusual right-wing authoritarian, with an emphasis on nationalism and militarism, and a return of "traditional values" and a glorious older era. Both sought to conquer other countries, albeit for differing reasons (Fascists wanted to rebuild the glory of the Roman Empire; Nazis wanted to exterminate the Jews, Poles, and Russians so they could settle German people in their lands). Both emphasized a strong leader and powerful security/police agencies to keep the people strictly under control.

One additional thought though- the effect World War II had. Italy's military did poorly in the war, and often had to be assisted by Germany's. As the war dragged on, Germany practically took control of Italy, and forced Italy to adopt a lot of Nazi policies. So while Fascists initially didn't care all that much about racism (they did occasionally do racist stuff, just nowhere the level of the Nazis), later in the war, they became very racist. Additionally, Western wartime propaganda understandably tended to gloss over the differences and portray them as being virtually identical, which is partly why, for example, Americans tend to not know the difference.

Answer 4

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