How does Hitler’s Seizure of Power in Germany help us define Fascism? E

Hitlers regime in Germany is commonly referred to as Nazism, and is identified in the theories of both Sternhell and Payne, which they conclude to be completely diverging from Italian fascism. If this is the case, then Paxtons five stages of fascism are proven to be invalid as, like Mussolini in Italy, Hitlers regime in Germany shows direct simile to these stages, as the latter parts of this chapter will show. With the signing of the armistice, that form exclusivelyy ended World War One, on November 11 1918, Germany respectively lost the war. Six months afterward the signing, the representatives at the Paris Peace Conferences, were finally able to conclude the peace treaties, which was signed on June 28 1919. The Treaty of Versailles was to have dire effects on Germany, effects that arguably completely altered the nature of her future. As part of the terms of this settlement, Germany was radically changed in terms of legal and military restrictions, territorial changes and also, a s a result of Article 231, Germany were blamed for starting the war, which formally became known as the war guilt clause, which stated The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her ally for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies . The sum, was by and by determined in 1921, to be 6000million. In terms of legal restrictions, articles 227 to 231 tried many German officials, including Emperor Wilhelm ll, as war criminals. Furthermore, Germany saw its military, in all forms, air, land and sea, vastly restricted. The German public w... ...orship.Works CitedAllan Todd The European Dictatorships Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini Cambridge university press (2002)Stanley G Payne Fascism Comparison and Definition University of Wisconsin Press 1980Walter Laqueur Fasci sm Past, Present and Future Oxford University Press 1997Roger gryphon Essays in the 20th century World History Heinemann London 1999A.J Gregor Young Mussolini and the intellectual Origins of Fascism California Press 1979Martin Kolinsky Continuity and Change in European ball club France, Germany and Italy since 1870 1974 Palgrave MacmillanMartin Blinkhorn Mussolini and Fascist Italy third edition Routledge 2006 Sharma, Urmila. Western Political Thought. Atlantic Publishers and Distributors (P) Ltd, 1998. p. 66.Philip Morgan, Fascism in Europe, 1919-1945, New York Tayolor & Francis 2003