Benito Mussolini Quotes
As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.
Mussolini, Benito. The Doctrine of Fascism. Translated by Jane Soames, Hogarth Press, 1933.
He had been the President of the German Reichsbank under the Weimar Republic and had real credentials as an Economist. Many Europeans and Americans assumed that he could not be as apparently irrational as the Nazi rhetoric at the time. However, he had become a committed Nazi as this quotation demonstrates. Most of the professional men of Germany became Nazis out of conviction or as a means of getting ahead or maintining their position. Given the solid anti Fascist character of the overwhelming majority of Germans at the beginning of the 21st century. It is hard for most of us to believe that most of the Germans were ideological, Fascist, Right Wing, extremist fanatics, but the German national character transition has been remarkable and is in great part the result of a painful self examination of German history and men like Schacht.
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician and journalist who founded and led the National Fascist Party. He was Prime Minister of Italy from the Fascist coup d'état in 1922 until his deposition in 1943, and Duce ("Leader") of Italian Fascism from the establishment of the Italian Fasces of Combat in 1919 until his execution in 1945 during the Italian Civil War. As dictator of Italy and founder of the fascist movement, Mussolini inspired other far right rulers such as Adolf Hitler, Francisco Franco, and António de Oliveira Salazar.