A quote from the Nazi SS. It references the policy of collective punishment used to terrorize cities, towns, and villages in occupied Europe—the promise that if a single officer was harmed, the entire civilian population would be arrested, deported, or shot in retaliation.

Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.

Benito Mussolini

For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.

Benito Mussolini

Believe, obey, fight.

Benito Mussolini

For the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this sense Fascism is totalitarian.

Benito Mussolini

The fascist state is the corporate state.

Benito Mussolini

The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.

Benito Mussolini

What luck, for governments, that the people are stupid!

Adolf Hitler

It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happening to them.

Adolf Hitler

If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.

Adolf Hitler