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Today it is common to compare a seemingly authoritarian leader or far-right group to Nazis or fascists. Did Europeans of the interwar/pre-WWII period have an equally widespread go-to comparison to describe the actual rise of fascism and the Nazis?

by /u/interlocken in /r/AskHistorians

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