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Nazism was fascist in nature, but rather than the State being the focus, it was race (Aryan), combined with fervent nationalism. Not all fascists are Nazi's, but it would be all but required to support fascist ideology in order to be a true Nazi. Fascists are not necessarily racist, which is contrary to the anti-Semitic doctrines which are at the core of Nazi ideology.
Part 2 -- Was World War II inevitable
Many scholars see World War II as nothing but a continuation of World War I with some of the players shaken up a bit. This view holds that the issues of the First War were never resolved, just put on hold for monetary reasons, and then resurfaced once the priority became vaster than simply finding something to eat (Watt, 1989). Hitler began writing Mein Kampf (My Struggle) while in prison in the 1920s. In this book, he formed a plan for the establishment of a National Socialist State, promulgated the superiority of the Aryan race, and found his scapegoat for all problems in the Jewish peoples. This was no surprise then, to those who read it in the West -- the plan was plain to see. However, after World War I, the United States was exceedingly isolationist (Congress never ratified the League of Nations), and Britain and France, despite their worries about Germany, wanted to avoid another war -- which is what Hitler counted...
In 1936, Hitler defied Versailles and rearmed the Rhineland. In March, 1938, Germany annexed Austria. There was grumbling, of course, but no one wanted to go to war over a perceived small incident. When no response came, Hitler moved to the Sudetenland, a German ethic area of Czechoslovakia, and soon France and Britain agreed he could have this territory. This was the famous "Peace at Any Price" paradigm. Thus, the response to Mein Kampf was generally willful ignorance; an attempt to reduce the chances of war at any price; and the underestimation of the power of Hitler's message and his will to turn Germany into a premier nation.
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