Its experience of fascism under Mussolini, its dual participation in the Second World War, and the continuous and still existent connections between the ideological factions of the 1930s–1940s and now ...
That was how, he noted, Italian Fascism and Nazism began, when Mussolini and Hitler capitalized on mass discontentment after World War I to gain power. Focusing on leaders, Paxton has long held ...
History’s two most famous fascists were Nazi chief Adolf Hitler in Germany and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini ... Today, the term fascism has taken on a looser political definition and ...
David Kertzer, a Brown University professor and Italian historian ... off his shirt and bare his chest, like Mussolini did. Kertzer said that fascism involved "a one-party state, a banishing ...