The system which Hitler established-the social reality which so many Germans were so eager to embrace or so willing to endure-the politics which began in a theory and ended in Auschwitz-was: the "total state." The term, from which the adjective "totalitarian" derives, was coined by Hitler's mentor, Mussolini.
( Leonard Peikoff )
[ The Cause of Hitler's Germany ]
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