HIS 2342 Lecture Notes - Mein Kampf, Rosa Luxemburg, Xenophobia
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But in the late 1930"s many of the democracies to the west started to collapse. Even though the movements whom were funded or encouraged by mussolini never. Fascism was only able to gain momentum in europe because of hitler. became truly ideally fascist until the 1930"s when they picked up some of hitler"s ideals. Hobsbawn doesn"t negate the crisis of the great war or the great depression in terms of what led to fascism. He explains that fascism was able to build on this crisis because of. He argues that it"s because germany is in the middle of europe and it"s size in economic power and it"s central location enabled it to become a global force. Even though they follow a traditional rhetoric they"re using modern ways to appeal to the past. When they do appeal to the past they do this in social mooring. In german fascism are singled out for special continuation.