Nazi - A Member of the national socialist german party founded in 1919 on fascist principles
and dominant from 1933 to 1945 in germany under the dictatorship of adolf hitler.
where it followed the principles of extreme nationalism racism totalitarian direction
of all cultural, political and economic activity and militarization while urging a destiny of world
leadership to Germany.
Fascist - one of the fascisti
- somebody who supports or advocates a system
of government characterized by dictatorship, centralized
control of private enterprise, repression of all opposition,
and extreme nationalism
Fascism - dictatorial movement: any movement,
tendency, or ideology that favors dictatorial
government, centralized control of private enterprise,
repression of all opposition, and extreme nationalism
Totalitarian - Designating or characteristic of a government controlled
exclusively by one party or faction which suppresses all opposition
and criticism and controls and regiments all social cultural and economic
activity in the country to advance its political aims
Political - pertaining to piblic policy concerned in the administration
of government
a political system distinguished from civil
belonging to the science of government treating of polity or politics
pertaining to or connected with all party or parties controlling or seeking to control
government in a state political state
Activity - the state or quality of being active action vigorous movement active force
or operation
Economic - pertaining to the science of economics money matters or wealth
management managing
Militarization - to convert to the military system
fuhrer - german boss Nazi boss
Luftwaffe - german airforce as organized by the nazi regime in 1939
SS - Schutzstaffel (defense echelon) known as the ss or black shirts in a special arm of the
german nazi party under adolf hitler founded as body guard for hitler in 1925.
the SS came under the direction of hinrich himmler in 1929.
After hitler came to power in 1933 Himmler expanded the rule of the SS making principal instrument
of the nazi germany's terror and one of the most powerful institutions of the third reich
at the height of its influence from 1939 to 1945 the ss controlled GESTAPO and all
other elements of the german police through the reich central security office (RSHA)
headed by Himmler's lieutenants, Reynard heydrich and from (1943) Ernst kaltenbrunner
and also under the RSHA where the Einsatzgruppen (special action squads) that
carried out mass execution of the jews and other racial "undesirables"
During the world war II the SS included military service called the SS Waffen (armed)
which fought alongside with the regular units of the german army.
the waffen SS eventually compromised more than 500.000 men organized into 30 divisions among them where
the death's head that guarded the nazi concentration camp.
Nazi Soviet Pact
Under these circumstances the conclusion late in August of a Pact of Non-Aggression and Friendship between National Socialist Germany and the Communist Soviet Union came as a great surprise. It doomed the Anti-Comintern Pact. Germany had previously been the leader, and wished so to regard itself, of the international struggle against Communism and the Soviet Union. Many conservative circles in the democracies had looked with complacency upon National Socialist Germany and had forgiven many of its excesses because they saw in National Socialism a bulwark against the spread of Communism. Many radicals and Marxists, on the other hand, saw in National Socialism the last stand, as they called it, of capitalism, and could therefore not believe that National Socialism and Communism had arrived at some form of cooperation.
The Pact of Friendship between Germany and the Soviet Union was primarily dictated by strategic considerations. Germany tried by this pact to impress upon Great Britain and France the futility of their promised assistance to Poland. The pact was designed to give Germany a free hand to annihilate Poland without the danger of Anglo-French interference. Should this hope not be realized, however, then the pact would make it possible for Germany to concentrate all her forces on the western front, and would at the same time open to her the vast resources of the Soviet Union, thus diminishing the effects of the blockade established by the democracies against Germany. The Soviet Government on the other hand expected that through its agreement with Germany the Soviet Union would find it possible to stay out of war, to inaugurate a policy of complete isolation, and to acquire, with the consent of Germany, certain territories and especially certain strategic outposts which would strengthen the isolation of the Soviet Union and make her more impregnable against attack. Soon, however, it became apparent that cooperation between Germany and the Soviet Union was to go further than momentary strategic advantages.
To understand that possibility, two facts should be kept in mind. First, the Soviet Union has developed under Stalin a cult of personal leadership which is completely at variance with Marxism and Leninism and which, in spite of some fundamental differences, brings the Soviet Union closer to the Fascist countries with their adherence to personal leadership. Secondly, National Socialism implied always the promise of a new "socialistic" order, of a collectivism on a strictly nationalistic or racial basis to be sure, but nevertheless in its practical consequences approaching very closely to Communism. This element had already been represented by forces in Germany which had been called Nationalbolschewismus, and by leaders like Gregor Strasser and Ernst Roehm. When Chancellor Hitler still needed the cooperation of the conservative elements in Germany and in the democratic countries, he had to liquidate these Communistic groups within the National Socialist movement, but now they could be given free scope. Whereas official Soviet circles spoke, as National Socialist propagandists did, of Great Britain and France as capitalistic imperialists and plutocracies, but denied any ideological elements in the present international conflict, the National Socialists began to stress more and more the socialistic mission of Fascism and the new Germany. This was clear in the New Year's proclamation issued on Dec. 30, 1939 by Chancellor Hitler.
Formerly the National Socialist attacks had been concentrated upon "Jewish Communism," upon an alleged "Jewish plot" which aimed at world revolution, with Moscow as its center and Marxism as its ideology. One of the leading propaganda organs of Germany, the Contra-Comintern, had published in August 1930 a leading article entitled "The Bolshevik Offensive against the World." The article was a violent attack against the Western democracies which were accused of letting Communism penetrate westwards through their friendliness towards the Soviet Union. This issue of the periodical was, however, the last under its old title. A new organ was to be devoted to an attack against "Jewish capitalism" and the conservative forces, instead of the former attack against "Jewish Communism" and world revolution. The heavily subsidized anti-Communist propaganda in Germany and in foreign countries suddenly stopped. Vast exhibitions intended to show the "horrors" of the Soviet régime disappeared. Both the Germans and the Russians were now regarded as "young and productive nations to whom belongs the future" and who are "waging this war to build up a new world." The war was presented as a great "international revolution" destined to put an end to capitalistic society in favor of socialistic planning within and among nations. The words spoken on Aug. 31 by Mr. Molotov, Prime Minister of the Soviet Union, seemed to be justified: "It would be difficult to underestimate the international importance of the Soviet-German treaty. It is a date of historic importance. It marks a turning point in the history of Europe, and not only of Europe."
