Volkswagen as a fascist object
Post-war Germany appeared to be a very miserable habitat, as the enormous war compensations had to be reimbursed. These expenditures have altered the economy of the nation, and poverty was prevalent. As a result, a lot of citizens were not able to afford a car, even despite the fact that the nation possessed its own car industry. In 1933, the National Socialists obtained the control of the country; as a consequence, Hitler assumed the set of items that he aimed to implement. Among them was the desire to provide the residents of the Third Reich with a similar type of admission to cars as the people of the United States had.
The so-named ‘people’s car,’ or as it was called in German, Volkswagen, was meant to be inexpensive, dependable, and easy to construct. A lot of organizations succumbed suggestions, but it was Ferdinand Porsche, “with his rear aerodynamic engines, rear-wheel drive design that was chosen” (“Englishman Who Made Volkswagen Part of the German Economic Miracle” par. 3). However, the possessions of the rights for the car still remain a prevailing issue in the history of cars and fascism. The German administration established an investment arrangement: if a person wanted to purchase a car, he or she could save five Reichsmarks of their income every seven days.
More than three hundred and thirty-five thousand citizens participated in this arrangement; however, the preponderance of the assets was detained by the Soviet Army when they attacked Germany. When the war ended, the industrial unit appeared to be relocated to British-occupied Germany. The initial strategy was to disassemble the plant, transport it back to the United Kingdom and apply it to car engineering there, but no one accepted it. Due to the interference of the British army, the plants remained to work for the British Armed Forces in Germany. Engineering the car in Germany continued until 1977. Volkswagen became something that had been converted from a fascist model to a stylish item.
Auschwitz as a labor camp and a death camp and the double nature of Nazi imperial reveries
“Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. It consisted of Auschwitz I (the original camp), Auschwitz II–Birkenau (a combination concentration/extermination camp), Auschwitz III–Monowitz (a labor camp to staff an IG Farben factory), and 45 satellite camps” (“Auschwitz Birkenau: German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp” par. 4). Birkenau, or Auschwitz II, changed its purpose as a combination labor camp and an extermination camp with the course of time.
After observing numerous places for a new factory to produce ‘buna,’ a kind of artificial rubber that was indispensable to the war exertion, chemical industrialist Farben selected a place near the cities of Dwory and Monowice, which are almost four and a half miles east of Auschwitz I and two miles east of the town of Oświęcim. Monetary sustenance in the procedure of tax exclusions was obtainable to companies ready to progress manufacturing in the frontline states in accordance with the Eastern Fiscal Assistance Law, which was conducted in December 1940. Moreover, additionally to its closeness to the concentration camp that could be applied as a resource for inexpensive labor, the place possessed convenient railway networks and admittance to raw supplies.
In the beginning, the workers had to walk almost four and a half miles from Auschwitz I to the factory every day; however, as this intended they had to get up and start their journey at three o’clock in the morning, a lot of employees were coming to the plant tired and incapable of working. The camp at Monowitz (also referred to as Monowitz-Buna or Auschwitz III) was created and initiated covering convicts on October 30, 1942 (“Auschwitz Birkenau: German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp” par. 8). Therefore, it became the first concentration camp to be funded and constructed by individual manufacturing.
Connection between ISIS and fascism
According to the researchers, there are several similarities between the fascists and radical Islamists, such as “the populism, the anti-Westernism, the antiliberalism, the anti-Semitism” (Laqueur par. 7), its violent, extensive, and anti-humanist appeal, the explanation of Islam not only as a faith but as a totalitarian political-social directive which delivers reactions to every debate of the modern world. However, simultaneously, there are alterations that could not be ignored. Fascism remains to be a European singularity; the despotisms beyond Europe (for example, the Japanese regime during the 1930s and 1940s) were destined to progress on altered paths conferring to historical customs and political situations of the region.
One of the main powers motivating the transformation of the ISIS movement is the technical capability established by the ISIS technicians, who possess an impressive existence in mass media. The second power is that ISIS has control over a large amount of ground between eastern Syria and western Iraq (Ruthven par. 5). According to several investigators of the ISIS case, it could be considered a fully functional country now.
ISIS is an extremely consolidated and well-organized association with a refined safety contraption and the capability for assigning power. The jihadists of ISIS could be defined as terrorists, but as the experts clarify, they are both largely compensated and controlled, and the slaughters they constrain and share on the Internet are a fragment of a comprehensible scheme. Distant from being an unmanageable bacchanalia of bloodshed, ISIS trepidation is a methodically pragmatic strategy that follows the concepts revealed in the jihadist collected work.
While the stimulus for the cruelty depends on relocating the primary fights of Islam and advancing them in an apocalyptic confrontation in northwest Syria, the organization exploits the influence of its horror scheme by reassuring acts of ferocity and decease to be displayed on the computers and phones. The extremely vivid photographs of dead combatants’ pleasing faces are often revealed, along with the ISIS greeting, which is similar to the fascists’ salute. As the researchers draw attention to the images, these dismaying acts are proficiently dispersed by the ISIS mass media subdivision.
Works Cited
Laqueur, Walter 2006, The Origins of Fascism: Islamic Fascism, Islamophobia, Antisemitism. Web.
Auschwitz Birkenau: German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp 2015. Web.
Englishman Who Made Volkswagen Part of the German Economic Miracle 2000. Web.
Ruthven, Malise 2015, Inside the Islamic State. Web.