Fascist Organizations and Their Infiltration into French Politics 1934-1936

Abstract

The emergence of fascism in Europe coincided chronologically with the phase of severe economic and social crises that afflicted the Western world in the twenties of the twentieth century. Thanks to social and historical conditions, fascism emerged on the political scene as the only force qualified to get out of the crisis and save the existing social system, not change it. This is an important point, because fascist regimes did not eliminate the economic foundations of the existing system. Rather, most of what it did is that it changed the form of government from a Western democracy to a tyrannical, authoritarian dictatorship. Nevertheless, fascism is an exploitative system of government of a new type, because the fascists sought from the beginning to establish a harsh ruling apparatus that works on the principle of blind obedience.

The Nazis practiced a method of total physical liquidation in order to eliminate their political opponents