Trending claims

A variety of para-fascist governments that borrowed elements from fascism were formed during the Great Depression including those of Greece Lithuania Poland and Yugoslavia

Nazis attempted a March on Berlin which resulted in the failed Beer Hall Putsch in Munich in November 1923

Pacification of Libya resulted in mass killings use of concentration camps and forced starvation of thousands of people

Nazi Germany pursued an economic agenda with aims of autarky and rearmament

In 1920s Fascist Italy pursued aggressive foreign policy that included ambitions to expand Italian territory.

In response to revolt in Italian colony of Libya Fascist Italy abandoned previous liberal-era colonial policy of cooperation with local leaders.

Italian Fascists sought to settle 10 to 15 million Italians in Libya

Adolf Hitler modeled himself and the Nazi Party upon Mussolini and the Fascists after the March on Rome

With the rise of Hitler and the Nazis to power in 1933 liberal democracy was dissolved in Germany and the Nazis mobilized the country for war

In the 1930s the Nazis implemented racial laws that discriminated against disenfranchised and persecuted Jews and other racial and minority groups

Hungarian fascist Gyula Gömbös rose to power as Prime Minister of Hungary in 1932 and attempted to entrench his Unity Party

In the Netherlands the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands was at its height in the 1930s due to the Great Depression especially in 1935 when it won almost eight percent of votes until the year 1937

During the Great Depression Mussolini promoted active state intervention in the economy

Italy's policy of autarky failed to achieve effective economic autonomy

Nazi Germany forced German steel industry to use lower-quality German iron ore instead of superior-quality imported iron

In her 1974 book Mussolini's widow Rachele stated her husband had always been atheist until near end of his life.

After signing agreement Church threatened to excommunicate Mussolini because of his nature and because he confiscated more Catholic newspapers.

Nazis in Germany employed similar anti-clerical policies.

He took position that papacy was malignant tumor in Italy must be rooted out because there was no room in Rome for Pope and himself.

Gestapo confiscated hundreds of monasteries in Austria and Germany evicted clergymen laymen alike often replaced crosses with swastikas.