Question

4. What is fascism? What explains its appeal and its (short-lived) success? How did the post-war German economy facilitate Hitler’s rise to power?

Answer 1

Fascism can be said as a type of Government in the form of one party dictatorship. Usually fascists stand against democracy. It hold hands for a centralized Government with a leader.

In the year of 1921, fascists selected some candidate for participant in the parliamentary elections. But it became unsuccessful. Totally they obtained only 5% of the whole votes. Even if they fail in the selection, they succeeded in creating an impression regarding the fact that they have solutions for every post war ills.

In the year of 1919, Germany was fully destroyed and they entered into an agreement of peace with the strong leaders of the First World War. As a result of great destruction of Germany, treaty of versailles came into force. But then also among German people this treaty and its terms created great hate, anger and dislike. Versailles means peace. The empire of German from the year of 1914 was broken up, military blasted and heavy compensation needed to be spend. The provisions of this treaty pave the way for the rising of Hitler. Even famous economist John Maynard Keynes criticized the treaty of versailles. Some others criticized that this treaty can only delay restart of war for some years. After that in the year 1930 and so on, Hitler came into power and second world war started. At that time those criticisms and arguments prevailed at the time of treaty of versailles comes true.