how did Fascism take over in Germany and Italy? weren't they a "democratic" nation like USA?

Question

wouldn't these countries recognize fascism better than other countries? can Germans and Italians see any similarities (dejavu) between Hitler's fascism and Bush's new world order?

ME TOO: great answer specially the paragraph R: the history of dictators. there are many similiarities with the path Bush is taking this country towards!

Answer 1

As to your first question, the blame in truth goes back to WWI and Wilson's policies of redrawing the borders of Germany to punish them. The German people and at least one struggling Austrian artist were very resentful of the way Germany was punished after the "Great War". The origins of "expansion" began as a desire to regain the territory lost in that war. The origins of antisemitism are more complicated and come from both religious and secular sources.

As for your second question, the only similarity I see between Bush and Hitler is that they are both socialists who want(ed) to use government to solve what they perceive as problems.

Answer 2

in Germany, the Versailles Treaty ending WW l put so many constraints on the German economy that runaway inflation, rampant unemployment, and many other ills were a plague. the Weimar Republic was constrained, weak and unable to rectify even small problems. the large corporations in Germany were a major part of the problem but were too powerful to legislate into line. when the fascist movement appeared it was evident to the large industralists that a change was coming, and the fascist or the communist would take over. having seen what happened in Russia the industrialists believed that the fascists were the lesser of evils and backed the National Socialists. with effective and serious financial backing the fascists drove the communists out of the streets - won a few elections and ultimately legally took power.

Germany and Italy have swung very far to the left, italy is somewhat "laid back" about her fascist history. Germany, on the other hand is super hyper active about her fascist past. a German citizen cannot say anything positive about the fascist state without severe social and legal reprocussions. the German fascist symbol cannot be displayed in any public area, this includes inside a private residence. in light of this i guess the answer is "no" as the German democracy is much more repressive than her fascist past........

Answer 3

Political institutions come and go depending on a whole number of factors including but not limited to economics.
Re: Ancient Athens where democracy was born, lapsed into Tyranny again after the Peloponnesian wars.
It is not surprising that fascism overtook Germany, Italy and Spain given the political climate and the economies at the time. People indeed voted for Adolf Hitler. The voting did not immunize the institution. People voted for W. It does not preclude the lapse into any type of tyranny just because we are the USA. Evidence of right wing extremism are very present and very real and sad to say very influential.

Answer 4

Nazism was a Zionist creation- it was funded- just like the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution- by Wall Street from 1929 ,as exposed by Antony C. Sutton, and brought into power on the back of a Rothschild run Bank of England, Federal Reserve induced depression which put 6 million Germans out of work.

once in power Herr Hitler used the pretext of the Nazi inside job of the Reichstag fire to make himself dictator.

Answer 5

Germany welcomed Hitler as a savior. He was a fiery orator, a man who promised change, and he lived up to what he promised, building schools, hospitals, bringing the people from the midst of a huge depression, where a man had to work all week to afford a sack of potatoes or other food.

Hitler had dreams of taking over Europe and, in fact, the world. He hated Jews, because they had successful businesses and great control of the financial world. I don't suppose the average German would have agreed to concentration camps and the annihilation of the Jews, but that's what happened. By that time, young Germans were serving in the military and the march on other countries had begun.

Read about dictators. Go back in time. They all follow a set path. They all begin as highly popular leaders and they all want military might, attacking other countries. They all maintain strict control over their people, have retaliatory measures, maintain a Gestapo-like police force that spies on the average citizen. They all maintain secret prisons, all believe in torture, and all proclaim themselves as loving and kind.

In our own country, the Constitution has been the document of power. Even now, gun lovers call upon it to hang onto their weapons. But it has been ignored in the past few years by this Administration. The balance of powers has not existed, the long-reaching arm of nepotism has placed "good buddies" and political friends in high positions. The courts have been stacked, the Texas Good Ole Boys given bounty for their loyalty.

Are we headed for fascism? The signs are there, the path is clear. Habeas Corpus, which has protected us for more than 200 years, has been invalidated, Freedom of the Press has been abused, Freedom of Religion is teetering on its last legs. We no longer believe each man is created equal. We want amendments to assure this isn't true. We are floundering in the winds of change, and our country has been affected as though it were in the path of a giant hurricane.

It is clearly up to the American people to choose what they want. Some here argue for this wind to blow freely, because they feel their secure lives won't be affected. But we reap what we sow, and those who defend the destruction of the Constitution will undoubtedly watch liberty ring its last sad toll.

Answer 6

During that time period the entire world was gripped in a severe depression. Germany blamed (and correctly, to a degree) it's situation on the strict conditions forced upon it in the Versailles Treaty. This made the people very susceptible to manipulation - point the blame at someone else and offer a solution to make you great again. Of course, the United States was also bogged by the depression and while it didn't go the fascist route, it adopted many socialist reforms.

Answer 7

Had Germany waited a few years and not gone after England it could have easily held most of Europe .

The trouble was that many Business men in America assured Hitler that America was going to stay out of Europe .

Bad move on Hitlers part to have gone after England Before he had complete control over the Countries he had already moved into .

Attacking people that look and sound alike seems to bring out the American armed forces .

Answer 8

countries do not recognize fascism, people do.

many of the people of both Germany and Italy [and Spain] have been busily ignoring or forgetting the fascist episode in their country's history. Why would they want to remember pain?


Herr Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany in 1933. Anyone old enough to vote at the time would be in her/his 90s by now. There aren't a lot of politically aware folk among any country's 90+ year olds.

Answer 9

Just watch - it is exactly the process happening here at the beginning of the 21st Century. And yes, Germany and Italy and the rest of Europe certainly recognize Fascism's ugly head rising over the White House...they tell us so almost every day, but we're not listening...

Answer 10

Italy was a monarchy, but Germany was a Republic (thus a democracy).