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1. He represented the National Socialist German Workers Party or NSDAP
2. Fascism is a political ideology that enforces strict social and economic measures. This empowers the government by stripping the rights of citizens. This authoritative system of government is headed by an absolute dictator who keeps citizens controlled and supressed through strict laws and violence. The defining characteristics of fascism are racism, militarism and dictatorship. Example Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
3. The ministers’ words supported the fascist views of the Nazi Party because it showed that the Nazi was an anti-democratic and anti-communist party this resulted in radical/extreme nationalism through extreme racism and anti-Semitism by means of militarism.
4. The above party is autocratic; my reasons are that the party is ruled by one person with others following the leaders order. In the cartoon, the ministers are asking the leader what to do showing that they are dependent on the leader. The cartoon leader, known as Adolf Hitler, is currently being saluted also indicating that he is the current leader, both ministers are looking like they are listing intently to everything he is saying and he is the only one sitting down in the above picture showing us that he has the privilege of sitting while everyone else has to stand around him.
5. Yes, the ministers took Hitler seriously because no matter what extremely dangerous task he ordered, they completed them with no arguments. An example is that Hitler ordered the ministers to burn down the Reichstag Building then use Marius van der Lubbe as a scapegoat so the Nazis weren’t suspended and blamed. Marius was found climbing down the Reichstag Building and he admitted that he had done the arson attack so he was executed.
6. Adolf Hitler was blamed for the above events, because he was the largest suspect to causing them, because most suggest that he led a scapegoat (Marius