Question

With reference to Nazism. answer the following questions:
(a) What were the aims of Nazism?
(b) How did Hitler establish a totalitarian State in Germany?
(c) What were the similarities between the ideologies of Fascism and Nazism?

Answer 1

a) Nazism is a set of political beliefs associated with the Nazi Party of Germany. It started in the 1920sThe Nazis strengthen the Germanic people, the "Aryan master race", through racial purity, broad social welfare programs, and a collective subordination of individual rights.

b) A Totalitarian state is one in which the leader, in this case Adolf Hitler, has total control of the Government and the people. Totalitarianism, form of government that theoretically permits no individual freedom and that seeks to subordinate all aspects of individual life to the authority of the state.

c) Similarities between the ideologies of Fascism and Nazism :

1. Both Mussolini and Hitler aimed at restoring the status and dignity of their nations by making them strong powers.

2. Both aimed at providing strong, stable and efficient Governments.

3. Both uphold one party and one man rule, to believe in aggression, to glorify war, anti-democracy.

4. Both have faith in totalitarian rule.