The social chaos of Europe after 1918 brought about totalitarian regimes such as Fascism and Nazism in Italy and Germany. According to Italian historian De Felice (1975), it is most instructive to regard ‘Fascist movements’ and...

Adolf Hitler and his armed forces achieved conquests few thought they would even dare. Between 1939 and 1941, the German military overran a huge portion of Europe, from Paris to Moscow, and many Germans felt that they had finally achieved just revenge...

Nazism or National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus) refers primarily to the ideology and practices of the Nazi Party under Adolf Hitler; and the policies adopted by the government of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, a period also known as the...

NOW THAT the 20th century is at last "history", what does this enhanced perspective tell us about the relationship between that century's two great threats to liberal democracy, Nazism and Communism? During the high Cold War decade following 1945, the matter appeared simple...

The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945 by Jrg Friedrich, translated by Allison Brown (Columbia UP, Pounds 21.95) WHEN this book was first published in Germany on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, it became an instant bestseller. This had a...

The nation's first Muslim congressman said Tuesday that he erred in comparing the Bush administration's response to Sept. 11 to an event that led to Adolf Hitler's consolidation of power in Nazi Germany.At an appearance before a group of atheists in Minnesota on July 8,...

An analysis of the social and economic policies of Hitler's Nazi government. Keywords: Germany, World War II, World War Two

Politics in the Third Reich were arguably as close to a science as has ever been seen before or since the mid twentieth century. By eliminating all opposition and competition in the political spectrum, gaining the unconditional loyalty, and enforcing strict, yet tolerable discipline unto volk, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party exercised complete control with virtually no obstruction from within.

To what degree did Nazism serve as a racist ideology, and to what degree did it serve as a nationalist ideology, in Hitler's Germany? In answering this question, points of view such as the ideology of superiority, the German "ideal," the discrimination of Jews, the Nazis' aim to build a "greater Germany", the economy, and the unity of the German people are all considered.