One thing that helps in our quest to discover what is truly fascist is to read books written by people that were intimately involved in the Italian and German govts. I read Albert Speer's autobiography and something he said struck me:

He said that in Nazi Germany, all the arts and sciences were strictly segregated into little "chambers." He said nobody in one chamber had any contact with anybody from another. It is as though the Nazis did not believe physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, mathematics, music, architecture and like were in any way connected. Astronomy under the Nazis was virtually a strictly cultural propaganda tool--probably because so many Jewish physicists had changed it so irrevocably. Speer said that had the Nazis won the war, the govt would not have lasted more than a dozen more years due to this segregation of the arts and sciences. Segregated, they are useless.

Speer was Hitler's chief architect and pointed out that Hitler had no real political vision for Germany. Everything was aesthetics. He had an aesthetic vision. That's why every city he took over he wanted redone in the Roman or Greek traditions--marble with big columns and what not. Order and cleanliness was essential to Hitler's vision. Appearance was everything. If you didn't fit into his aesthetic view, your days were drastically numbered. The Jews and Gypsies were not a political enemy to Hitler, they were simply vermin and nothing more. Vermin must be exterminated and the infestation eliminated. Small wonder then that the prussic acid used to gas so many Jews and Gypsies--Zyklon B--was, in fact, an insecticide invented by I.G. Farben.