Mass dictatorship, also known as consensus dictatorship (German: Konsensdiktatur), is a concept developed to explain the phenomenon of a political dictatorship that rules primarily with popular support rather than by terror; it is therefore opposed to the totalitarianism theory of dictatorship.[1] Examples of consensus dictatorships cited include Nazi Germany[2] and East Germany.[3] The book Life and Death in the Third Reich by Peter Fritzsche is an example of a work that portrays Nazi Germany as a consensus dictatorship.[4]
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass dictatorship.
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