Transcript Hitler and Fascism

“Fascism was not the nursing of
a doctrine, it was born of the
need for action”
- Benito Mussolini
“Nothing above the state,
nothing outside the state,
nothing against the state”
- Benito Mussolini
3/14/17
“Let us have a dagger
between our teeth, a bomb in
our hands, and an infinite
scorn in our hearts.”
- Benito Mussolini
“All propaganda has to be popular
and has to accommodate itself to the
comprehension of the least intelligent
of those whom it seeks to reach.”
- Adolf Hitler
“Make the lie big, make it
simple, keep saying it, and
eventually they will believe it.”
- Hitler
“He alone, who owns the
youth, gains the future.”
- Adolf Hitler
4/1/15
The great strength of the totalitarian state is
that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.
- Adolf Hitler
The Fasces Symbol
Comes from the
Latin word fasces.
Ancient Roman
symbol of power
and authority
Mussolini used it
to represent
strength in unity
– Nazi Germany
• Massive state propaganda
program was implemented,
Nuremberg Rallies
• Goebbels, as Min. of Truth and
Enlightenment, created the “Big
Lie”
• Unacceptable ideas were
stamped out – the “Burning of
the Books”
• Nazi Party
– Seats won
in the
Reichstag
 1932 saw
a NSDAP
plurality
The Reichstag Fire
Feb. 27th, 1933
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One week before elections to
be held
Nazis used the fire to enforce a
state of emergency
Arrested communists,
suppressed the vote.
Gain majority in German
Parliament
Article 48 of the Weimar
Constitution
If public order and security are seriously disturbed or
endangered within the Federation, the President…may
take all necessary steps for their restoration,
intervening, if need be, with the aid of the armed forces.
For the said purpose he may suspend for the time
being, either wholly or in part, the fundamental rights
described in Articles 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124, and
153…The President…has to inform the Reichstag
without delay of any steps taken in virtue of the first and
second paragraphs of this article. The measures to be
taken are to be withdrawn upon the demand of the
Reichstag. Where delay is dangerous a state
government may take provisional measures of the kind
described in paragraph 2 for its own territory. Such
measures are to be withdrawn upon the demand of the
President…or of the Reichstag…”¹.
– the Weimar constitution and civil rights were
suspended and the Nuremberg Laws enacted later in
the 1930s
– These included the Civil Service Law and the
Preservation of Blood and Honour Laws
• ARTICLE 2
– A citizen of the Reich may be only one who is of German
or kindred blood, and who, through his behavior, shows
that he is both desirous and personally fit to serve loyally
the German people and the Reich.
– German Jews were systematically denied their rights
of citizenship and pushed out of the German nation
Hitler Seizes Power
Dictatorship begins,
March 1933
• The Enabling Act: Hitler
given authority to make
laws without the approval
of the Reichstag.
–KRISTALLNACHT
-Crystal Night
– Nov 9 and 10, 1938
– “The Night of Broken
Glass”
 “Spontaneous”
violence against Jews.
7,500 synagogues,
storefronts, homes
destroyed as well.
Represented an escalation of
violence against Jews