What Next?

The Nazi party instituted a new order on the German state where:
o        Fear was promulgated constantly.
o        Loyalty was valued over competence.
o        Government business was done in secret.
o        The power structure was riddled with cronyism.
o        Dissent was not permitted and was punished severely.
o        The party claimed a higher moral purpose to justify its actions.
o        Hitler cloaked his actions in messianic revelations (fulfilling a higher destiny)
o        The ends justified the means (e.g., torture, concentration camps, aggressive war)
o        The party and the industrial-military complex were mutually supportive and profitable.

Sound a little familiar?

What next?  Jackbooted thugs?

Backgrounder: Whatever Happened to the SS, SA and Gestapo?