Fascism and Nazism are not the same thing. Nazism is subset of Fascism. Which is lot more international phenomena. And it has had limited support in various places.<p>My home country fostered few Fascists movements before and during WWII. One of them included lots of people from academia. While curiously there is no mention anywhere that they would have persecuted domestic ethnic minorities.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Patriotic_People&#x27;s_Movement_%28Finland%29" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Patriotic_People&#x27;s_Movement_%2...</a>