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72 FASCISM: THE BLOODY IDEOLOGY OF DARWINISM

Fascism had its first successes in Italy. Mussolini took advantage of the
social tensions and longing for change among the Italians, and after the war,
mobilized former soldiers, the unemployed and university students, with
slogans calling for a return of the glory days of ancient Rome. Mussolini
organized his supporters, known as "Black Shirts," in a quasi-military format,
and whose methods were founded on violence. They began to carry out attacks
in the streets against groups they identified as their rivals. With their Roman
greetings, songs, uniforms and official parades, they aroused the emotions of
the uneducated and the disenfranchised.
On October 29, 1922, 50,000 fascist militants under the command of six
generals marched on Rome. Because the king knew what the force that
opposed him was capable of, and that there was no way he could oppose them,
he called on Mussolini to form a government. As a result of the developments
that followed, the Italian fascists finally came to power. A while later,
Mussolini banned all other political parties. Some of the opposition leaders
were sent into exile abroad, and others were imprisoned.
Hitler came to power by similar methods. The Nazi movement was
born in the early 1920s, and carried out its first violent act in the Munich Beer
Hall putsch. On November 8, 1923, Hitler raided a meeting at the Munich City
Beer hall where Bavarian State Commissioner Gustav von Kahr was speaking

The Nazi movement, which began in the 1920s, carried out its first act of violence
in the Munich Beer Hall putsch. The picture below shows a good number of the
accused in the trial following the Beer Hall putsch.