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"However, having at its disposal the elaborate machinery of a modern secular state, National Socialism in Germany had none of the ambiguities and organizational lapses that persisted both in Italian fascism and Soviet Stalinism."

How was Nazi Germany different than the two nations mentioned above? How come it was a "modern secular state"? How come the others were not? In short- I want to know what made Nazi Germany different than the other nations, with more emphasis on the other nations than Nazi Germany.
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National Socialist German Workers Party, or "Nazi Party" (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), and by Adolf Hitler as chancellor in 1933, and from 1934 onward as Führer ("Leader"). Nazi Germany is perceived as a depreciative expression to denominate this period, which is officially the "German Reich" (Deutsches Reich) and later the "Great German Reich" (Großdeutsches Reich). Another popular term is "Third Reich" (Drittes Reich).

The policies pursued during this period were based on the concepts of Grobdeutschland (Great Germany), Lebensraum, Aryan racial purity, anti-Semitism, anti-communism, territorial revision and revenge for Germany's territorial losses at the Treaty of Versailles.
 
Germany was not controlled by a State religion. Italy and the Soviet Union came out of areas of State religion. Italy, under Mussolini settled a long dispute of taking away Roman Catholic lands ( called the Papal States). He created Vatican City and left them alone. That gave him some support of the the Church.
The USSR came out of Moscow, which thought of itself as the third Rome because it was for its time the center of the Eastern Orthodox Church. The Communists took their lands but still had to deal with a nation of one religion.
Germany had the Lutheran, other Protestant and Catholics, and Jews. The Country, prior to Hitler went about their religion without caring one way or the other about others belief. That left it freer to act as a Government that never had to share power with religion.
 
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