Great Depression contd.

Political and Economic Crises in the interwar years


(continued from previous lecture)

Fascism in Europe

What is fascism?
ideology, techniques and organization

Circumstances
WEIMAR REPUBLIC: unstable democracies

Italy
BENITO MUSSOLINI: “IL DUCE”
Fasci di Combattimento: “Band of Combat”

Germany

HITLER and NAZISM
“MEIN KAMPF” (1923)
ENABLING ACT (1933)