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English: Mussolini & Hitler. Low resolution GIF animation created from a propaganda news reel documenting Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler in Munich on 25 September 1937. . Behind them from left: The deputy of the Fuehrer the Reich Minister Rudolf Hess, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano and Foreign Minister Konstantin Freiherr von Neur
The relationship between Mussolini and Adolf Hitler was a contentious one early on. While Hitler cited Mussolini as an influence and privately expressed great admiration for him, [218] Mussolini had little regard for Hitler, especially after the Nazis had his friend and ally, Engelbert Dollfuss, the Austrofascist dictator of Austria, killed in ...
When the war ended, many of them faced trials for war crimes. The chief leaders were Adolf Hitler of Nazi Germany, Benito Mussolini of Fascist Italy, and Hirohito of the Empire of Japan. [1] [2] Unlike what happened with the Allies, there was never a joint meeting of the main Axis heads of government, although Mussolini and Hitler met on a ...
In Italy, Mussolini's Fascist regime used the term anti-fascist to describe its opponents. Mussolini's secret police was officially known as the Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism. During the 1920s in the Kingdom of Italy, anti-fascists, many of them from the labor movement, fought against the violent Blackshirts and ...
The Nazi salute, also known as the Hitler salute, [a] or the Sieg Heil salute, is a gesture that was used as a greeting in Nazi Germany. The salute is performed by extending the right arm from the shoulder into the air with a straightened hand. Usually, the person offering the salute would say "Heil Hitler!" (' Hail Hitler! '), [b] "Heil, mein ...
The gesture from Musk is eerily similar to the salute made prominent during the height of Adolf Hitler’s antisemitic and racist rule over Germany in the 1930s.
In 1925, as Mussolini began his fascitization of the state, the salute was gradually adopted by the regime, and by December 1, 1925, all state civil administrators were required to use it. [ 37 ] Achille Starace , the Italian Fascist Party secretary, pushed for measures to make the use of the Roman salute generally compulsory, denouncing hand ...
Although other Nazis disapproved of Mussolini and Fascist Italy, Hitler had long idolized Mussolini's oratorical and visual persona and adopted much of the symbolism of the Fascists into the Nazi Party, such as the Roman, straight-armed salute, dramatic oratory, the use of uniformed paramilitaries for political violence and the use of mass ...