Mention the difference between Italian and German brands of facism. (Answer in 150 words)

- Mention the difference between Italian and German brands of facism. (Answer in 150 words)
Introduction
Both were interwar revolts against liberalism, Marxism and Versailles, but their organising principles diverged: Italian Fascism worshipped the state, German Nazism the race.

Body

1. State versus race: Mussolini and Gentile declared everything within the state, nothing outside it; for Hitler the state was a vessel for the Volk, subordinated in Mein Kampf to blood.
2. Philosophical parentage: Italian Fascism drew on Hegelian idealism, Gentile's actual idealism and Sorel; Nazism on biological racism, Social Darwinism and Gobineau.
3. Anti-Semitism: Central and exterminatory in Germany, from the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 to the Holocaust; in Italy a late import, legislated only in 1938 under German pressure.
4. Institutional completeness: Mussolini retained the monarchy and reconciled with the Church in 1929; Hitler's Fuehrerprinzip destroyed every rival institution outright.
5. Economic and expansionist doctrine: Italy institutionalised the corporate state; Germany pursued Lebensraum, rearmament and total war.

Conclusion
The resemblances are real, yet Arendt reserved the label totalitarian for Nazism and Stalinism alone. Italian Fascism was authoritarian statism; Nazism a racial state built for extermination.