Fascism

Answer this question…Because Germany was ruled by a dictator, economic decisions could be made and carried out efficiently.

Mussolini was overthrown in 1943 and imprisoned, though he was shortly after freed from prison by SS commandos and taken to the German-controlled northern part of Italy. There he organised the Italian Social Republic, which was finally defeated in 1945. He was shot by Italian partisans while trying to escape the country.

Yes, in that Fascism may be (loosely) defined as totalitarian Capitalism.

Benito Mussolini died on April 28, 1945 at the age of 61.

Franco

A fascist uniform appeared militarist in style. The uniforms usually had a symbol of their movement on them. Italian movements had a black shirt, Germany had a tan shirt, and many had sashes on the sleeves.

benito mussolini

Mussolini's fascist followers were called "Blackshirts."

strong central leadership

represented the wealthy and supported a society with classes.

The Nazi's, in order to dispose of dead bodies in concentration camps often buried them in massive grave pits, incinerated them in purpose built crematoria, or used parts of them for medical experiments or to help the war effort, human hair was used for rope for the Kriegsmarine. At the end of the war though when the Allies were closing in and the SS were only interested in saving their own skin, they had too many bodies to deal with, when the British army liberated Bergen-Belsen, they found 10,000 unburied bodies.

I will say no because though communist governments in the past and in the present use fascism, communism is a type of economy and has an authoritarian leader, meaning it is controlled by government(aka Executive wing in context to American government), while in fascism the economy is also controlled by an authoritarian leader but will use the military and other violent methods to keep the people in control.

So, to answer your question, No communists are not worse then fascists in theory.

Fascism, notably in Germany and Italy leading up to and during World War II, involved extreme control of the government over its citizens. Russia during the Soviet (Communist) period also emphasized conformit. At times, particularly under Stalin, they were downright ruthless. In this respect, Fascism and (at least sometimes) Communism have been quite similar.

On the other hand, the underlying sentiment of Communism is international, and history is perceived as a struggle between upper and lower classes in all countries. Fascism values one's own country above all else, and many Fascists of whatever country view every other country as inferior. In this way, Communism and Fascism are quite different.

Finally, consider that each country in each period of time is not going to be exactly comparable to a different country, and not necessarily the same as that same country 50 years down the road, no matter what word is applied to their way of government.

A lot of leaders were put there by the League of Nations. Even though it failed in the end, US gave a lot of money to the countries that were in debt to raise their economy.

However US itself went in depression which got out after WW2 and US did the same after WW2 but this time to prevent the spread of communism.

Benito Mussolini.

pros: less conflicts with the government

more efficient

easier to vote because theres only one person

cons: violent

have to listen to the government no matter how bad it is

forceful

At first, it was only used to cushion mechanical elements in submarines... but later... once the war began to go down hill... the hair was woven into blankets for the army.

Mein Kampf by adolf hittler

Fascism, which is an authoritarian ideology that holds the beliefs and norms of the individual to a lesser value than the beliefs and norms which are in force through the imposition of a group of individuals, namely the state.

Therefore, the fascist mentality is the state of mind of one who believes in the superiority of the sanctity of the state or greater collective over the supposed inferiority of the individual.

The fascist mentality is sympathetic to any particular institution that supports the development of the state (or suppresses individuality, whichever may come first), is heavily nationalistic, and is negatively expressive towards any particular group that may stick out from the majority that is benefited or favored by, and may pose a threat to the sanctity of the state.

The fascist mentality is also expressly fond of the military/police aspect of the state. It sees state force as an extension of the individual self, as the fascist wants and values authority, defense, order, loyalty and parenthood, which are the "core values" that are most favored by human beings.

Thus, in order to realize these ideals and values, the fascist sees service to the state institutions, and forceful expressions of opposition against the threats to the state's superiority, as the ticket to the realization and fulfillment of oneself. Also, because of the executive's leadership role in the direction of the military/state force, the fascist mentality is much more likely to favor the executive branch's handling of political power, and has expectations that the legislative and judicial branches will stand behind the executive for the sake of the nation's advancement. If the legislative and judicial branches do not stand behind the president or executive leader, then those branches are a detriment to the advancement of the state, the people and the citizen.

The term "fascist mentality" is often used in political arguments and polemics, most often to accuse the political right, especially those who have a neo-conserative bent, of exhibiting seemingly fascist tendencies and rhetoric, as the neo-conservative movement in American politics has expressed a greater interest in the use of arms as a force for stabilization, and has also drawn upon the support of citizens who fear the incursion of supposed enemies to the stability of the state, such as Islamist fundamentalist insurgents and illegal immigrants. However, the neo-conservative movement has actually thrived from an internationalization of the movement's struggles, including the War on Terrorism. It has won friends and allies from other countries, including those whose populations had suffered terroristic attacks from Islamist insurgents embedded within their local Muslim populations.

I can tell you something that interests me: me being someone who was not born until long after the end of the Second World War, but whose heart goes out to everyone who suffered and/or died during that time.

Why did the Holocaust happen? There are many answers, none of them comprehensive. But after studying the history of the period for a very long time, one idea stays with me.

How could anyone do to anyone what the Germans did to the Jews of Europe? It seems to me that the Nazi ideology required adherents to murder large parts of their own psyches. Huge parts of the Nazi's inner birthright as a human being had to be suppressed, cut off, destroyed, suppressed. Compassion, for instance. And everything that seemed "feminine", such as emotions, especially love and empathy. (Nazis hated women. Even now, there is a word in German, 'weiblich', that sounds as if it should mean 'feminine', but really it means 'stupid'.) The German man who was trying to belong to the Nazi community was deeply ashamed of these parts of himself, and terrified of them. If they were seen by others, he would be rejected by the group he longed to merge with.

Carl Jung taught the world about the power of projection: how each of us can see in the outer world only what exists inside of us. Our image of another person is not truly them: it is our own projection, a manifestation before our eyes of what already exists within us. If the thing we see was not part of our own self, we would not recognize it in the outside world.

I believe that the Nazis projected their own Shadow onto the Jews of Europe. That is, the part of themselves that frightened them, that they rejected, that they would do anything rather than accept as a part of their own selves. Jews were Other; they were individualistic, not joiners, not belong-ers. They were helpless, many of them were poor. Many of them were intellectual or artistic. All of these were qualities that Naziism rejected, and that individual Nazis rejected inside themselves. Nazis were required to be masculine, powerful, anti-intellectual, without doubts or secret thoughts of any kind. They longed to be exactly the same as the man marching next to them: witness the uniforms, whose true purpose was (and is) to mask the individuality of the men wearing it.

What did the Germans gain by creating the Holocaust? That question has been bothering me for a long time. All that effort and money and time and labor, for what? What *good* did it do them, to do what they did?

I believe that what they were engaged in was the slaughter of their own intolerable inner selves.

I think of the symbolism of the concentration camp in relation to this. Why did the Nazis choose to do the particular things that they did? They tried to erase the individuality of their victims (shaving, removal of clothing, replacement of names with numbers.) They even gave their victims a uniform, of sorts--nothing from Hugo Boss, but garments of grey and blue stripes, signifying the new identity of the wearer as a prisoner and a slave. They seem to have cared about preserving the distinction between men and women: even in the freezing winters of eastern Poland, they gave women prisoners dresses instead of trousers. Almost as if they were protecting their male Jewish prisoners from identification with women.

It's as if the Nazis were saying, "You would not/could not join in. Now we are *forcing* you to join the group. We are taking away your existence as an individual. And when you have felt that fact, we will take away your life altogether."

So I began to see a sort of ghastly mirroring of the Nazis themselves in their victims in the camps. That whole world, after all, came out of the psyches of the Germans. The Jews did nothing to envision or to create it. Those emaciated human forms whom we see in films from the time of liberation--they are an image born out of the Nazi mind, not the Jewish one. The prisoners in the concentration camps were uniformed, as identical as possible, strictly segregated by sex. In Treblinka, at least, they were even forced to sing a militaristic marching song.

I believe that a Nazi, looking at a concentration camp prisoner as he suffered and died, was actually watching himself. That is what I find interesting about the Nazis. Because we *all* belong to the same species as those horrific men. What analogous trick of projection might we, ourselves, be playing?

The term fascismo came from the Italian word fascio, which means group, and also from the Latin word fasces. The fasces were a bundle of rods that were tied around an axe. Thsi was an Ancient Roman symbol used by the civic officer, which were carried by his Lictors and could be used for capital punishment as he so pleased. The symbolism of the fasces suggested strength through unity: one rod is easily broken, while the bundle is hard to break.