Flashcards on Totalitarianism: Ideology, Power, and Society
Totalitarianism: Ideology, Power, and Society – Student Guide
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Fascism
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Card 1
Question: How did Goebbels (1942–43) contrast Fascism with other movements in terms of depth and roots?
Answer: He said Fascism is a superficial thing that does not go as deep down to the roots as other movements.
Card 2
Question: According to the quoted material, how did Hitler view Mussolini (the Duce) compared to revolutionary leaders like Stalin and himself?
Answer: Hitler viewed Mussolini as not a revolutionary; he was bound to his Italian people and lacked the broad qualities of a worldwide revolutionary and ins
Card 3
Question: What distinction did Himmler make between Fascism and National Socialism in his 1943 speech?
Answer: Himmler said Fascism and National Socialism are fundamentally different and that there is absolutely no comparison between them as spiritual, ideologi
Card 4
Question: What common observation about Nazis and Communists did Hitler make in the early 1920s?
Answer: Hitler said extremes met in the movement: Communists from the Left and officers and students from the Right, and that Communists were the idealists of
Card 5
Question: How did Ernst Röhm (SA chief) describe the relationship between Nazis and Communists in the late 1920s?
Answer: Röhm said there were many differences but they respected the Communists' sincerity and willingness to sacrifice, which united them with the Communists
Card 6
Question: During World War II, how did Nazi leaders perceive the Soviet Union ideologically compared with Western bourgeois states?
Answer: They saw the Soviet Union as an ideological state and thus a peer; Hitler said ideological countries had an edge over bourgeois states, and the East s
Card 7
Question: According to Gottfried Neesse (1936), where did the Nazi movement place the Communist Party in relation to the political system?
Answer: Neesse wrote that the united front of the system extended from the extreme Right to the Social Democrats, while the Communist Party was an enemy outsi
Card 8
Question: What claim is made about Hitler’s intentions toward defending Western countries against Bolshevism?
Answer: The material claims Hitler never intended to defend the West against Bolshevism and remained ready to join with the Reds for the destruction of the We
Card 9
Question: What point is made about smaller European countries and the relationship between totalitarian movements and nontotalitarian dictatorships?
Answer: In smaller countries, nontotalitarian dictatorships were often preceded by totalitarian movements; such countries lacked enough population to allow fu
Card 10
Question: What reason is given for why totalitarian domination was impractical in smaller countries?
Answer: They did not control enough human material (population) to allow for total domination and its inherent large population losses.