The sanction of the Nuremberg Laws, a series of racist and anti-Semitic provisions adopted in 1935, which enshrined the legal discrimination of Jews and their alienation from German society.
The increase in military power and the expansionist pretensions of the Hitler government, which led to the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939.
The murder of millions of people (Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses and other minorities) in the concentration and extermination camps set up by the Nazi regime during the war. The main perpetrators of these crimes against humanity were tried and sentenced to death or life imprisonment at the Nuremberg Trials, carried out between 1945 and 1946.
The military occupation of Germany by the troops of the Allies, which led to the division of the country into two states, one capitalist and the other socialist. In Berlin, the capital of East Germany, the Berlin Wall was built in 1961 to divide the eastern part of the city from the western one.
After the deaths of Hitler and Mussolini in 1945, fascism lost popularity and became, in both Italy and Germany, a minority political movement.
Luis Fernando Ruiz Valdez 