American Heritage Dictionary

[nagard]

The American Heritage Dictionary
(Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983) 
left us this definition of the form of government the German democracy 
had become through Hitler's close alliance with the largest German
corporations and his policy of using war as a tool to keep power:
 "fas-cism (fbsh'iz'em) n.
A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, 
typically through the merging of state and business leadership,
together with belligerent nationalism."