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F-J

F

Fascism
Final Solution
Franco
Führer

G

General gouvernment
Genocide
Gentile
Gestapo
Ghetto

H

Heydrich, Reinhard
Hindenburg, President
Hitler Putsch
Holocaust

I

Ideology
Indoctrination

J

Jewish Council
Judenrat
Judenrein

Fascism

Originally this meant a supporter of the Italian Fascist movement led by Mussolini, who controlled Italy from 1922 to 1943. Fascism provided much inspiration for Nazism, because the two were politically very similar and because the Fascists gained power first. Fascism is a movement or ideology which promotes militant nationalism and is opposed to democracy. Fascism was a widespread movement throughout Europe in the first half of the Twentieth Century.