Mass dictatorship

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]

## References

1. ↑ Lim, Jie‐Hyun (2005). "Historiographical Perspectives on 'Mass Dictatorship'". Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions 6 (3): 325–331. doi:10.1080/14690760500317669.
2. ↑ Stone, Dan (2010). Histories of the Holocaust. Oxford University Press. pp. 9, 167. ISBN 978-0-19-956679-2.
3. ↑ Grafe, Roman (14 September 2010) (in de). Die Schuld der Mitläufer: Anpassen oder Widerstehen in der DDR. Pantheon Verlag. p. 91. ISBN 978-3-641-04533-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=WNLFXKalzPkC&dq=Konsensdiktatur&pg=PT91.
4. ↑ Stone 2010, p. 4.

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