The fascist political pattern in Germany involved four main factors: the principle of leadership, the totalitarian state, and one-party dictatorship. This political pattern is based on “the overman” theory, which exaggerated the individual differences in intellectual and physical ability. This theory points out that when specific individual has superior potentiality, this kind of people was “the overman”, was the creator of history and could enslave the masses. Nazi Party applied ‘the overman’ theory to their political doctrine and create ‘the principle of leadership’. In practice, this principle means: first, the charismatic leader, playing a unifying role in the state, has supreme authority; secondly, it operates from top to the bottom in all social and political organizations, so that all regional leaders are appointed by the leader and are responsible to the leader. In August, 1934, Hindenburg’s death allowed Hitler to wield the supreme authority. The federal cabinet were responsible only to the leader, and without …show more content…
The ideology of National Socialism rejected all traditional doctrines including democracy and they thought the Weimar democracy was an unorganized mass. After Hitler came into power, he demanded a strong government in which all power was concentrated to the president, and he wanted to abolish the federal system. As a result, the ideology of the totalitarian state that emphasize the importance of establishing the unconditional authority of the government spread widely. On 30 January 1934, “Reichs-Aufbaugestez” (to rebuild the Reich), transferred all sovereign power to the Reich, thereby the Germany established the unitary system under central government. In addition, with the sovereignty lose federations, there was no need to keep the federal council, therefore, on 14 February 1934, the federal council was abolished. Authoritarian control was from top to bottom