How does Nazism differ from Fascism?
“The extent and nature of the affinity between Fascism and Nazism has been the subject of much academic debate. Although the modern consensus sees Nazism as a type or offshoot of fascism, there are many experts who argue that Nazism was not fascist at all, either on the grounds that the differences are too great, or because they deny that fascism is generic. Differences Nazism differed from Fascism proper in the emphasis on the state’s purpose in serving a racial rather than a national ideal, specifically the social engineering of culture to the ends of the greatest possible prosperity for the so-called “Master race” at the expense of all else and all others. In contrast, Mussolini’s Fascism held that cultural factors existed to serve the state, and that it wasn’t necessarily in the state’s interest to serve or engineer any of these particulars within its sphere. The only purpose of government under fascism proper was to uphold the state as supreme above all else, and for these reasons
