Give a comparative description of the fascist and Nazi regimes in Italy and Germany according

Give a comparative description of the fascist and Nazi regimes in Italy and Germany according to the plan a) Leaders b) Ideology and social support c) reasons for coming to power and political ideology d) economic policy of the regimes

1. Leader of Italy: Benito Mussolini, Germany: Adolf Hitler.

2. Ideology and social support of Italy: fascism, lower and middle strata of society; Germany: National Socialism (close to fascist with the predominance of the ideas of racial superiority of the Aryan race), the middle and upper strata of society (the ideas of Nazism were not popular among the proletarians).

3. The reasons for coming to power were similar – the weakness of post-war democratic regimes, their inability to raise the standard of living of the people, as well as the economic crisis of the 1920s. The core of Italian fascism was the “corporate state” – the unity of all citizens (regardless of origin) around the greatness of the state. Nazism was based on the ideas of the superiority of the Aryan race (northern Europeans) over other peoples.

4. The economic policies of both states were based on a capitalist basis. A characteristic feature of the Nazi and Fascist regimes is the militarization of the economy (up to 25% of GDP.