Nazi Germany From A Historical Standpoint By Looking At...

Fascism became popular during World War I and continued to gain prominence as World War II came to a head. At this point, Nazi Germany’s sect of fascism, Nazism, would come to be one of the most well-known identifiers of the fascist ideals of racial hierarchy, anti-Semitism, and social Darwinism. Let it be known that Nazi Germany does not align consistently with all aspects of other fascist regimes, but for this assignment, I will be focusing on Nazi Germany. Nazi Germany, under Hitler, propagated racism through many different avenues. For the purpose of this paper, I will be evaluating racism in Nazi Germany from a historical standpoint by looking at Maus: A Survivor’s Tale and by evaluating Der Untergang. When we think about fascism, we often immediately think of Hitler and Nazi Germany during WW2, but fascism was around since the early 1900’s. The ideological roots of fascism have been around since the mid-1880s (Sternhell, 1998), but the timing was never right to act on them until the First World War came into salience. There are often preconceived notions that all fascism is the same, but in fact, the inclusion of the politically right-wing ideas into the Italian Fascist movement in the early 1920s created divisions within the fascist movement. â€Å"The left side of the Fascist movement included people who were committed to advancing national syndicalism as a replacement for parliamentary liberalism in order to modernize the economy and advance the interests of workers and