Characteristics of Nazism.

  • It is considered a totalitarian and authoritarian movement in which power emanates from the leader and not from the people.
  • He rejected the democratic system, proclaimed the Nazi Party as the only party in Germany, and persecuted and oppressed opponents.
  • He held racist ideas that claimed the superiority of the Aryan race and the inferiority of all others. This gave rise to the cult of force and led to the elimination of ethnic minorities and the implementation of methods of reproductive control to «perfect» the Aryan race.
  • He defended pan-Germanism, which promotes the political and cultural union of all peoples of Germanic origin.
  • He implemented imperialist and expansionist policies, which promoted the conquest of territories in search of a vital space that would ensure the supply of fuel and raw materials to interwar Germany.
  • He manipulated the media and education to gain popular support. The advertisements in cinema, radio, newspapers and television played a fundamental role in the strategy of Nazism to spread its ideology.

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