Fascism's Stages: Imperial Violence, Entanglement, and Processualization.

At the high point of its power in 1941, National Socialist Germany ruled over a landmass exceeding the United States in area and population and producing a greater economic output than any equivalent territory on earth. The historian Mark Mazower deemed National Socialism an empire,1 and in the last few years a new approach in Fascism Studies accepts Mazower’s insight and examines fascism in its imperial form.2 Po liti cal latecomers, the fascisms of Germany, Italy, and Japan challenged the liberal world order and Communist internationalism, and also radicalized the logic of imperialism and the forms of colonial war conduct. In the destruction of