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Reactionary Nationalists, Fascists and Dictatorships in the Twentieth Century pp 145–164Cite as

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The German Fascists: Nazi Political Culture

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The rise to power of National Socialism in early 1933 made Germany become the second fascist regime and seemingly confirm fascism’s universal character. In this text, Morant examines Nazism as the German exponent of the fascist political culture by focusing both on the most characteristic elements of its world view (anti-Semitism, the myth of the Volksgemeinschaft, its nature as a political religion and its totalitarian ambitions) and the visible representations of a movement that paid special attention to future generations and did not neglect (non-Jew) women, since they constituted at least half of the “national community”. Many of these elements distinguish Nazism from its reactionary nationalist allied rivals in Germany, while brought it closer to other exponents of the political culture of fascism in other European countries.

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The author is a member of the research project titled Derechas y nación en la España contemporánea: culturas e identidades en conflicto (HAR2014–53042–P), financed by the General Secretariat for Research of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Innovation, and of the Grup de recerca d’excel·lència PROMETEU/2016/2018 research group of the Department for Education, Research, Culture and Sport of the Generalitat Valenciana.

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Morant, T. (2019). The German Fascists: Nazi Political Culture. In: Saz, I., Box, Z., Morant, T., Sanz, J. (eds) Reactionary Nationalists, Fascists and Dictatorships in the Twentieth Century. Palgrave Studies in Political History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22411-0_8

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