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slash geo. Hello everyone and thank you once again for listening to the saga of World War II,

Picasso's Belly project. So this appendix is a little different from the others I've done.

Usually, they are their interviews with authors

of works relevant to the show, are just material I think is pertinent, but wasn't able to fit into

the narrative. This one is more of a clarification. In the last few months, I've seen the term

fascism thrown around a lot, and not always accurately. This got me thinking that I never really defined what fascism is.

I looked back through my first few episodes when I talked about the rise of fascism as a movement

in the 1920s, and while I did describe it in many ways, I never really defined it. I never clearly

articulated what fascism is, what are its traits, how do you know if a movement is fascist?

In a podcast about a war that was essentially a conflict against fascism, I think this is an important topic to cover.

So let's correct that now, in Appendix G, what is fascism?

I find that oftentimes historians over-define fascism.

Frequently, they will so narrowly define fascism that is only applicable to Mussolini

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