What were the differences of Italian Fascism and German Fascism (Nazism)?
Fascist ideology was first defined in 1914, when Benito Mussolini, then a prominent Socialist and editor of the party newspaper “Avanti!” split from the mainstream Socialists, who opposed Italy’s intervention in WW I, and actively campaigned for going to war against Germany and Austria-Hungary. Nazism’s rise to power came much later in the 1930s, and it’s evident how Hitler shamelessly copied some aspects of Italian fascism to build his idea of authoritarian government. Basically, while Fascism advocated a return to the splendor and rule of Ancient Rome over the Mediterranean area, and borrowed heavily on Roman lore and symbols, Hitler’s Germany was meant to create an entirely “new society” and an “aryan nation” upon which build the world of the future. Both dreams were destined to fail due to gross miscalculation…
