Were there any non-violent Nazis or Fascists?

Question

Where there any Facists or Nazis who support basic Hitler ideology, but then did not support violence to obtain his goals? I thought there were Natzis in Britain and America, but they stopped after Hitler went to war.

Answer 1

There was a group of supporters of Nazi Germany in the United States, yes.
I don't think they were violent, however.

Answer 2

I think it would be impossible to not have been violent under Hitler's ideology be it you disliked his stuff or if you followed the Nazis. Hatred breeds people to be violent. They wanted to destroy that which they hated because they viewed they were the victums of racial decline and the only was out in the Nazis mind was through their Final Solution-- an obviously violent end to the Jewish and other inferriors so they thought. The underground who opposed Hitler I am sure used violence if they needed to oppose the Nazis; they fought fire with fire. There were some of German ancestry in other countries that were simpathetic to the plight of Hitler, but were not violent in their own environment. Hmm that is a tough question to distinguish the later.

Answer 3

Some people were forced to join the nationalist party in Germany. If they had not joined it they would have been killed. My grandpa was a soldier in WW2 and believe me, he did not like it at all. When he had to go to war he was only 18 years old and had already lost his brother.
I also think that many people were members of Hitler's party to protect themselves from being killed. Not every German was a Nazi and the people all over the world calling themselves Neonazis do not know what they are talking about because they only are racists. They never had to hunger or sleep outside at temperatures below zero. And they do not know what it meant to live at that time.
My grandma's dad had to leave Germany because he was against Hitler. My whole family was and still is against anything fascist and against racism in general.
Don't believe everything you hear. Look stuff up in books or on line but always try to figure out if what you read or hear is true.

Answer 4

I'm sure there were. Some people aren't violent by nature. There were many, I'm sure, who shared the ideologies, but didn't do any violence themselves. Now, as to whether or not they themselves believe in violence is another thing.

Merriam-Webster defines fascism as "a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition".
Fascism is associated by many scholars with one or more of the following characteristics: a very high degree of nationalism, economic corporatism, a powerful, dictatorial leader who portrays the nation, state or collective as superior to the individuals or groups composing it.

This next part is from the Columbia Encyclopedia:
Nazi ideology drew on the racist doctrines of the comte de Gobineau and Houston Stewart Chamberlain, on the nationalism of Heinrich von Treitschke, and on the hero-cult of Friedrich Nietzsche, often transforming the ideas of these thinkers. Nazi dogma, partly articulated by Hitler in Mein Kampf, was elaborated by the fanatical Alfred Rosenberg. Vague and mystical, it was not a system of well-defined principles but rather a glorification of prejudice and myth with elements of nihilism....According to Nazi dogma, races could be scientifically classified as superior and inferior. The highest racial type was the Nordic, or Germanic, type of the Aryan race, while blacks and Jews were at the bottom of the racial ladder. Intermarriage contributed to the deterioration of the superior race, and the Jews, knowing this, had furthered prostitution and seduction to defile the Germans. Consequently only small islands of the pure remained, but it was their destiny to govern their inferiors and, through scientific breeding, to extend the master race and limit inferior races.

So, with thye general ideals, I suppose it can be said that there were non-violent Nazis and Facists, because they are, in the origin of the ideals, nationalism (although extreme cases of course).

Answer 5

Of course mate, they were the MAJORITY. The families, the businessmen, the corporations, all were mostly non-fighting, passive entities who supported Hitler through money and words. You didn't have to be a soldier to be in the Nazi Party. Also, there were many facist supporters in other countries as well who were non-violent in nature.

Just like in the U.S.---Is there anyone in the U.S. who supports Democracy and has not fought in Iraq? Same thing mate.

Answer 6

i do not extremely care what people call them. extremely that in britain there are regulations that say unlawful immigrants should be back to their own united states yet over the finest 2 many years successive governments have did not uphold those regulations. BNP immigration coverage isn't new because what they recommend IS modern-day regulation. does that for this reason make the tories and labour fascist or nazi. britain is starting to be over populated and if not something is performed about this inhabitants explosion quickly it received't basically be indiginous british those who starve yet 2d, third and four technology criminal immigrants who starve. with the exception of non secular excuses overpopulation is the superb reason behind civil conflict. contained in the 1930's all of us stated that Churchill turned right into a deluded extremist who became out of contact with fact by technique of opposing appeasement of germany- seem what occurred. i'm not a member of the BNP yet as a historian i'm very frightened what is going to happen if the important events do not heed their message. traditionally extreme political events purely come to ability at the same time as mid-stream authorities fails.

Answer 7

There were some homosexual ones (which were later massacred by Hitler), called the SA's, i think. They might have been a little less violent than the traditional Nazi's and the SS.

Answer 8

The basic ideas of Fascism or Nazi ideology are using violence to subdue and subvert anything that they do not agree with.

Answer 9

There were individuals who lived in Nazi or Fascist countries who were non-violent. These people did not support their country's leaders, or ideology, so I guess you couldn't call them Nazis/Fascists.

Answer 10

Since the essence of Fascism and Nazism is power through conquest and the right of the strong to impose their will, I doubt it.

I suppose there might have been the occasional one who didn't understand what they were getting into.