The real excitement of the movie is seeing just how far they'll take their political parallels — which is pretty much all the way to a grand conspiracy theory linking current US foreign policy with
Nazi totalitarianism.
At the same time it rebuked the pastors for opposing not
Nazi totalitarianism in tow but only its encroachments on organized religion; they were making a truly heroic stand, but «the cause which they champion is not the fully Christian ideal» (February 7, 1934).
Not exact matches
Perhaps nothing infuriated the
Nazis more than the publication of Pius XI's encyclical Mit brennender sorge (March 1937) with its stern condemnations of
totalitarianism and pseudo-scientific racism.
His successor, Pius XII, issued an equally powerful encyclical, Summi Pontifactus (1939), which condemned
totalitarianism, and openly challenged
Nazi racial theories by defending the unity of the human race.
The Pan-Slav and Pan-German movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were additional roots for
Nazi and Stalinist
totalitarianism, breaking open, as they did, the traditional notions of nationhood and territory.
But sure, this is a substandard form / degree of
totalitarianism relative to the mass murder byf regimes in the USSR, China and
Nazi Germany.