What was the difference between the German government and Italian government during WW2?
Shortly German government was of Totalitarian kind; Italian was something between a real Totalitarian government and an authoritarian government (a simple dictatorship). In Germany Nazi’s Party was the rule, the government: no other powers even exist: there was no distinction between the government and the Party. The rules (if any) were based only on the fuhrerprinzip: the will and the word of Adolph Hitler (or of anyone in higher position) was law. In Italy Fascism was, just as Nazism, a mass dictatorship that tended to cover every aspect in daily life.Nevertheless it never suceeded in this: – other powers didn’t disappear, just they allied with fascism: industrial class (they give up some freedom for a more protected market), major estate owners, the Catholic Church and the King (he accepted Mussolini, for the king was week and coward: yet Italian Army swore oath of Fidelity to the king. So the king was able to overthrow Mussolini in 1943). Even bureaucracy accepted willingly to beco
