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In terms of maintaining power, both Hitler and Castro implemented violent institutions that would put the counter revolutionaries in their place. Castro had the CDR, which would spy on citizens and use violence, and Hitler had the SA and Hitler Youth that would constantly breathe down the necks of German citizens.

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Hitler mainly focused on getting rid of those not under the Volk (Jewish people, disables people, homosexuals, etc.) that he wasn't able to focus on the economic deterioration of Germany. The amount of money he spent on his goal of creating an a perfect Aryan race was proved to be an issue towards the end of WWII when the German army was falling apart. Castro immediately focused on the social issues that were present in Cuba (illiteracy and women's rights), and took several measures to fix the economy.

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Both Hitler and Castro consolidated power through the people and a revolution. They both had very charismatic personalities that promised their people a better Germany or Cuba. These promises were somewhat followed through. They both immediately took action when coming into power, but their efficacy differs.

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Both Hitler's and Castro's consolidation of power differs in the sense that one was a coup and the other was an 'election' of some sort. Their domestic policies also differ in that they both had different goals. Castro immediately focused on eradicating illiteracy and Hitler focused on eradicating opposition from within the bureaucracy. Hitler didn't really have a focus on fixing the people's lives, rather getting rid of those that made their lives bad in the first place.

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In maintaining their power, both Hitler and Castro had similar organizations that revolved around violence in order to maintain their power, they both intimidated, arrested, and reported any form of opposition to their regime. For Hitler, this was the Gestapo, and for Castro this was the CDR.

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Unlike Castro, Hitler did not consider women as equals to men, he did not provide the same opportunities to jobs and education that Castro provided in his regime. Castro fully supported women and allowed them to engage in Cuba as much as men could, they had equal rights, opportunities, and equal access to education and health.

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Unlike Castro, Hitler did not consider women as equals to men, he did not provide the same opportunities to jobs and education that Castro provided in his regime. Castro fully supported women and allowed them to engage in Cuba as much as men could, they had equal rights, opportunities, and equal access to education and health.

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Both Hitler and Castro used propaganda extensively in their consolidation of power. Hitler's mass rallies, speeches, television broadcasts, and use of radio played an important role in his consolidation. Castro's use of radio, marches, and interviews played just as much an important role in his consolidation of power as well.

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Both Hitler and Castro used propaganda extensively in their consolidation of power. Hitler's mass rallies, speeches, television broadcasts, and use of radio played an important role in his consolidation. Castro's use of radio, marches, and interviews played just as much an important role in his consolidation of power as well.

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Both Hitler and Castro got rid of many oppositions. They arrested anyone who was considered to be "counter revolutionists". Religion was also an area where both had similar policies. Many religions under both Hitler and Castro were either heavily discouraged or banned. They both also also implemented ways to increase nationalism.

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Hitler was more focused on imperialism rather than social advances for Germany. This is evident through the blatant disregards of the Treaty of Versailles and the 4 year plan. Castro on the other hand wanted to maintain a nationalistic Cuba and build pride back up. He also wanted to become independent from other imperialistic countries.

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Both Hitler and Castro executed failed coups. Hitler had the Beer hall Putsch and Castro with the 26 July Movement. While they both failed, it did cause people to notice them, thus giving them some popularity because, as they both stated and implied, a revolution was what everyone actually wanted.

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In order to obtain power, Hitler and Castro had to appeal to different classes. At first, Hitler appealed to the working class but eventually appealed to the elites in order to be voted in as chancellor. Castro on the other only focused on the working class.

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In the maintaining of power, Hitler and Castro both censored the arts throughout their regime to ensure there were no counter-revolutionary ideas throughout the country. They both censored the arts in that they monitored books, art, and theater. They also spend effort to monitor religion by controlling and harassing the churches.

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In their maintaining of power, Hitler and Castro contrasted in their treatment of women. Castro worked to gain rights for women and equal opportunities of those given to men. He granted them with employment opportunities and health opportunities. Women in Nazi Germany however were to operate under Nazism and were to stay home and stay with the children.

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In their consolidation of power, Hitler and Castro both used propaganda to its fullest extent in order to appeal the people and gain followers in their path. They both used the radio and posters and attempted to appeal to the people as the "common man". They both were very popular for their speeches and rallies that were held.

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In their consolidation of power, Hitler and Castro contrasted in that while they both attempted to come across as the "common man", Hitler contradicted this at the same time with conveying the idea that he is still superior than others. Castro however stuck to his propaganda with photos of him playing baseball and with the people of Cuba for appeal.

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In maintaining power, both Hitler and Castro provided harsh punishments to those who went against their regime. In both of the leaders regimes, this led to the formation of camps which worked to take out all opposition to their leaderships.

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Castro and Hitler differed in their methods of maintaining power in that

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To  maintain power each used their nationalistic ideals to stay in power and in the favor of the people. They used nationalism to bring pride to each of their respective countries and be able to appeal the the people through a collective identity of being a part of their country and they should try and fight for it.

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Each had a myth about them that made them seem superior or stronger than the rest and it gave them credibility to what they were doing.

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Hitler was consolidated his power through how he truly believes in his own ideology and it influences how the people see him because of how passionate he is about it. Castro's myth comes from how him and his men were able to survive within the jungle, so it gave him a sense of resilience.

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Hitler's nationalism was different to Castro in that Castro wanted Cuba for only Cuba and he was very anti-imperialism due to the US's heavy intervention in Cuba. While Hitler wanted to spread the German pride to all over the world, but Germany would be greater Germany and the rest of the world would be as great as Germany was.

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They both had established a legitimacy based upon national recovery after ongoing economic crisis.
Germany went through the hyperinflation and then the great depression shortly after. The economy had crumbled and the people were desperate for change, for a savior and for recovery. Hitler offered that. He was the beacon of hope to the power and once in power he set out to create jobs and lower unemployment. It kept the people content and raised his legitimacy.

As for Castro, Cuba of the 1950s was extremely impoverished and unequal. There were high rates of infant mortality, starvation, illiteracy. The Revolution changed that by reforming the land and providing guarantees to the Cuban people of education and healthcare. It’s had stumbles, but it’s worked. The people of Cuba greatly benefited from these reforms and as such, Castro had a great base of support.

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Castro
Anti-American Sentiments.
America, through its various actions such as the Platt Amendment, intervention in the Cuban state, the Bay of Pigs and later on, the blockade basically did Castro's work for him and painted themselves in a negative light. Most of thier actions were done in self interest and only ever hurt the Cuban people. Castro was able to prey upon the sentiments of the people and distract from the less desirable traits of the revolutionary government. The USA was the common enemy of Cuba that Castro could use as an excuse to pass his agendas.The blockade and bay of pigs pushed Cuba into the Soviet sphere.

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Both Hitler and Castro did away with opposition to their power.
For Hitler, the night of long knives, as in, the systematic eradication of the SA faction of the Nazi party, vanquished his last major threat. The Reichstag fire decrees were similar in that one of the majorities in the Reichstag, the communist party, was done away with after they were accused, as a whole, of arson. Once they were gone, the NSDAP seized their seat and claimed a larger majority.
As for Castro, the first people with money and power who could have toppled the revolution fled with suitcases of of money in the early 1960s. The second wave in the 1980s were relatives of those in Miami and whoever the regime could let out of the jails and mental hospitals fast enough. This included political opponents who hadn’t been co-opted into the regime. In the 1990s the fall of the USSR and socialist camp led to a terrible economic situation, and was the third wave of emigrants. In all cases, it’s easy to stay in power when your opposition gets up and walks out.

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Hitler has the the Enabling Act, which combined the role of the chancellor and the president in to one and allowed Hitler the right to make laws without the Reichstag’s approval for four years. Arguably this was the critical event during this period. It gave Hitler absolute power to make laws, which enabled him to destroy all opposition to his rule. This removed the Reichstag as a source of opposition and was the final step in his assumption of power.

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Castro and Hitler heavily monitored religious groups and often expelled certain denominations from practicing religious activities. As for Hitler, he believed that the Jews and other religious groups were detrimental to the German economy and society, and were detrimental to his goal of achieving a pure Aryan race. Castro on the other hand had no racist motivations, rather he was wary of the influence that religious organizations had as they could bring people together and conduct open communication.

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Both Hitler and Castro used extensive propaganda and censorship techniques to maintain a grasp on their respective nations. Both Germans and Cubans were subject to radio, TV, and poster campaigns which praised the efforts of the regime and leader. Additionally, censorship caused minority groups such as:
artists, writers and other expressionists to cry for justice. In both regimes this sort of Opposition was mercilessly silenced through use of violence and intimidation, often through the use of the police force and military groups.

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Both differed in the groups that they chose to target in their fear campaigns. Hitler emphasized the negative effect of Jews, Communists, Socialists, and other groups on the German state. Hitler believed that Germany lost WW2 because of the actions of these groups. He blamed the suffering of the German post WW2 on clever politicians and the Jewish lobby. (Stab in the Back Theory) (Internal Threats). On the other hand, Castro blamed the United States on their historically poor economic conditions. Castro believed that Cuba had become victims of neo-imperialism in the sugar industry under the shadow of the United States (External Threats). By doing so, both Hitler and Castro were able to put a face on their enemies, although one targeted internal threats and the other targeted external enemies.

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Hitler and Castro had different agendas when they rose to power. As the Fuhrer, Hitler consolidated power by removing his opposition using military groups like the SS and Gestapo. During the Night of the Long Knives and the Reich stag Fire, Hitler made the public perceive his actions as necessary actions in order to remove internal threats and dangers. On the other hand, Castro's consolidation of power was not as extensive as Hitler's. This was mainly Citebase his main opposition was Batista who fled along with many of his close allies. This left a lot of space open for Castro to implement his own bureaucracy. Additionally, part of Castro's consolidation was when he merged his beliefs with the communist party of Cuba and adopted Communist ideologies. Moreover, he joined hands with the USSR in order to implement agrarian reforms and other economic polices to prop up failing Cuban markets.

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Castro and Hitler both maintained power by controlling and restricting the press.
The Cuban government owns nearly all radio stations, tv stations, and publications. Any critical speech has been brutally suppressed. Fidel Castro would often write his own pieces in the large newspaper "Granma," signifying the large government control of all press.
Hitler and the NSDAP had large control over both radio and newspapers, as they owned almost all radio stations by the 1940s and published many newspapers (often under other names that signify their independence from the government, and thus, objectivity). Hitler would often give long speeches using the radio, as a way to personally connect with German and keep himself popular.
Controlling the press helped Castro and Hitler maintain power by suppressing other viewpoints and allowing the government to create positive stories  that kept it popular.

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Hitler and Castro's policies that helped them maintain power did differ, as seen in social and family policy.
Hitler promoted and incentivized "traditional family values," which meant women were expected to remain at home, focusing on raising new children, especially to create more "Aryans." Women were not expected to challenge this situation or find work to support themselves.
In contrast, Castro heavily changed policies on women and families. He passed the Labor Code, which gave women full equality in the workplace, and passed the Family Code, which required men and women to do the same amount of housework. These actions and others (like the creation of the Federation of Cuban Women or the allowing of generous maternity benefits) marked a radical change in the family and gender structure in Cuba and was a major policy action by Castro. These actions contrast with Hitler's policies of promoting much more traditional, non-revolutionary families and women. Though support from women was a major factor in both leaders' rise, Hitler did little to advance their equality while Castro did.

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Hitler and Castro both quickly moved to eliminate lower-level opposition during their consolidation of power. After the Reichstag Fire occurred and the Enabling Act was passed, Hitler began locking up Communists, liberals, and Social Democrats in what would become concentration camps. This action kept opposition parties from being able to effectively organize against Hitler, allowing Hitler to gain more power.
Similarly, Castro quickly began setting up show trials in which Batista supporters were easily convicted. Further, later on during his consolidation, he put groups like Jews and Jehovah's Witnesses in labor camps as a way to get rid of the "counterrevolutionary forces" he suspected them of being. The quick restriction of low-lever opposition groups allowed Hitler and Castro to begin consolidating power.

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While both Hitler and Castro locked up and restricted lower levels of groups against them, Hitler focused much more on the higher levels, while Castro focused on lower levels. During the Night of the Long Knives, Hitler had top leaders of the Sturmabteilung killed so as to eliminate the top levels of possible opposition to him. This event is seen as the conclusion of his consolidation and his entrance into full dictatorial rule.
Contrastingly, Castro did not focus on upper-level opposition. Castro did not have the same institutional problems as Hitler, in that other higher-up government members were not suspected of opposition to Hitler (or at least there was no action on these suspicions). Thus Castro mostly eliminated opposition in non-government people, such as former Batista supporters. Thus while Hitler eliminated opposition at high and low levels, Castro's consolidation consisted more of elimination lower-level opposition.

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Both Hitler and Castro consolidated their power through the elimination of political opposition and civil liberties. More specifically, both attempted to create a one-party state, with themselves at the helm. For instance, Hitler blamed and banned the Communist Party following the Reichstag Fire and the issuing of the Reichstag Fire Decree. Similarly, Castro suspended elections in Cuba and even after ending such suspensions, would not allow campaigning.

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Hitler and Castro both maintained violent institutions (SA and CDR) and at some point instituted labor camps. There were punishments to those who opposed the regime and both eliminated political opponents which challenged their rule. Additionally, the press was monitored and controlled by the government; both governments kept the press/ media under government control in order to keep peoples' opinions as the government wanted them. Both Hitler and Castro had radio station (Reich Radio Company and Radio Rebelde) which they could more directly reach the people to enforce their ideologies and maintain a common opinion. Both Hitler and Castro used a scapegoat to blame their problems on (internal threats in Germany and the US) and gain support from this opinion.

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Castro focused more on helping social issues to get support from those specific groups. He helped women gain equality in Cuba with the Labor code, whereas Hitler supported a traditional family with women and men being unequal. Castro's labor camps were shutdown due to international outcry, where as Hitler's concentration/labor camps were open for many years and killed millions of people. Castro blamed much of Cuba's problems (mainly economic) on the United States, whereas Hitler blamed Germany's problems (like losing the war) on internal threats (non-aryans).

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Both Hitler and Castro eliminated political opponents. Thousands of Castro's political opponents are killed during the first decade of his leadership. He held trials in which he convicted many of treason. Hitler also eliminated opposition, like during the Night of the Long Knives. Both of them also eliminated "internal threats" who either opposed Castro's revolution or were non-aryans in Germany. They put these people in labor/concentration camps, imprisoned them, or killed them. Additionally, both Hitler and Castro used propaganda to create a common opinion and idolize themselves as heroes.

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Hitler's consolidation of power was under Gleichschaltung in which he increased the executive power, placed the bureaucracy and federal structure under central authority, and neutralized the power of the SA and army. Castro was the sole executive power, but unlike Hitler, Castro started over with a new constitution in 1976, instead of changing the previous one. This also meant there was a new federal structure in Cuba, unlike Hitler who just changed the previous federal structure.

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Both Hitler and Castro eliminated opposition. They did not give trials to political prisoners, and sent them to labor camps (Hitler- concentration camps) (Castro-UMAPS)

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Castro implemented many socialist policies to please Cuban peasants and maintain their support while Hitler implemented nationalist policies aimed to expand the German military to lower unemployment and maintain support. Castro also attempted to maintain power through obtaining nuclear missiles, which were yet to be created when Hitler was in power.

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Both used their charisma and public speaking abilities to gain support. Hitler would speak passionately to his audience, capitalizing on their fears and anger, enrapturing the audience with the way that he would speak. There would be hundreds of people gathered to listen to him speak. He was so persuasive in his speaking abilities that he was able to convince the judge to shorten his jail sentence after his failed Beer Hall Putsch, where had committed treason against the Wiemar Republic. Similarly, Castro was able to persuade people with his ability to speak, too. Like Hitler, he had also convinced a judge to limit his death sentence to only several years in jail with his amazing speaking abilities. Furthermore, his passion and strong convictions in his speech that attacked Batista's repressive regime gained him massive support and raised revolutionary fervor in the country.

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Both Hitler and Castro created a one party state after coming to power which made it much harder to create a unified opposition against these dictators.

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A difference between Hitler's and Castro's rise to power is in the way that they gained their powers. Hitler, after the failed Beer Hall Putsch, vowed to gain power through legal means. That meant that he would gain power through elections and manipulating officials who were in positions in power, like Hindenburg, who had the ability to call new elections, in which more and more members of the Nazi party would be elected into the Reichstag.
Meanwhile Castro achieved power through violent means. After his failed coup in the Moncada Barracks, Castro escaped to Mexico and then returned to Cuba to start another revolution. He fought against Batista's army in the Sierra Maestra using guerrilla tactics and was able to successfully defeat them, causing Batista to flee the country.

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Castro consolidated power by passing a new constitution after his coup. On the other hand, Hitler consolidated power by abusing the flaws in the current Wiemar Constitution to pass the enabling act.

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Both Hitler and Castro instituted groups that would monitor the public for any threats against their regime. For example, Hitler implemented the Gestapo, a secret police force who would eliminate any opposition to the regime and arrest Jews, intellectuals, and homosexuals, sending them off to concentration camps. Similarly,  Castro implemented the  Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, which also eliminated opposition to the regime. Political prisoners, homosexuals,  Jehovah's Witnesses were all arrested and sent to  Military Units to Aid Production, which were labor camps.

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A difference between Castro and Hitler remaining in power was the policies that they had implemented. Castro implemented policies that created social reform in the country, gaining the support of the people. For example he implemented extensive policies that acquired equal rights for women. Additionally, he implemented education reform that allowed for people to have access to free education and lower the illiteracy rate in Cuba. Meanwhile, Hitler only implemented policies that would carry out his ideologies or maintain his power, such as the implementation of concentration camps and the creation of the Hitler youth, which brainwashed the youths of Germany to blindly follow Hitler.

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Both Hitler and Castro maintained their powers through the surveillance, control, and elimination of political opposition, as well as those who failed to conform to their ideological standards through instruments of force. Hitler monitored, controlled, and sometimes killed political opposition and "outsiders" like the Jewish through the SS and its various branches. Castro did the same to political opposition labeled as counterrevolutionaries or fascists and to "social deviants" such as homosexuals and religious groups through the CDR

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Hitler and Castro differed in their areas of focus in maintaining their power. Hitler focused on developing the strength of Germany, and thus his power, through military, industry, and territorial expansion. Meanwhile, Castro focused on controlling the Cuban economy at home through expropriation of land, and foreign policy to ensure economic stability and support. through Soviet trade

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Castro and Hitler's consolidation of power differs in their treatment of "outsiders" pr "social deviants" Hitler focused on preventing "outsiders" such as Jews through placing them in concentration camps and through genocide. While Castro did imprison opposition, he also encouraged "social deviants" such as anti-socials and criminals to emigrate from Cuba.

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Both Hitler and Castro used elimination of opposition as one of their main methods to maintain power. They used force to eliminate anybody who were against their revolutionary movements. As well as eliminating people who were against their movements, they also eliminated or restricted people who were against their ideal image of a revolutionist. These people were monitored and arrested by sources from inside the government.

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Both Hitler and Castro eliminated forms of social expression. Both leaders saw artwork as a direct threat to their beliefs and to their regimes. While both regimes utilized pro-Castro/Hitler propaganda artwork, they also considered any forms of modernism as "degenerate". Under the Nazis, any artwork that did not align with the Nazi ideology, or did not work in favor of Hitler's regime was regarded as a conflict with Hitler's power.

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Castro and Hitler did not allow any opposition. If you spoke out against the government in either of these countries, the odds of you getting killed or put in jail would be quite high, not to mention the possibility of being put into a labor camp. Castro and Hitler both made their subjects fear speaking their mind of the current government with these possible consequences.

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Hitler and Castro differed in maintaining power. While Hitler saw no reason why women should work, and believed that the place for women was within the home, Castro believed the opposite. Castro saw women as equally fit to work in the Cuban society, and he guaranteed them the right to equality (social, economic, political, cultural).

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Both Hitler and Castro consolidated their power by eliminating human rights and freedoms of individualism. While Hitler created fear through using his secret police force and setting up concentration camps in order to purge the society of opposition, Castro also instituted mass censorship and had his police watch over the people and jail everyone who spoke out against the regime.

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The consolidation of power differed from Hitler to Castro in that the majority of Hitler's opponents were eliminated by the personal discretion of Hitler himself and the Nazis, while in Cuba more than a million Cubans fled the nation seeking political asylum. In Germany, Germans stayed because they had to or because they supported Hitler while Hitler got rid of those who he sought to eliminate. Cubans fled the country after Castro's communist takeover. Mostly upper and middle classes fled Cuba for fear of the new regime, leaving Castro with a country of citizens that Castro felt he could control.

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Both Hitler and Castro maintained power by suppressing free speech, specifically the press that opposed their respective regimes. Furthermore, both Hitler and Castro  maintained power through creating a propaganda machine to convince their citizens as well as citizens of other nations that Germany/Cuba was prosperous and enemies of the state or ideology were in the wrong.

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Hitler was only able to maintain power by moving towards war and his leadership only lasted until the war was lost, but Castro did not move towards war and his maintenance of his regime and system of government remains in some ways to this day.

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Both Hitler and Castro maintained power through surveillance and suppression of "counter revolutionary" ideas. Hitler achieved this through the SS and SA, while Castro used the CDR to eliminate opposition.

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In consolidation of power, Hitler and Castro both attempted a violent uprising (Beer Hall Putsch and 26th of July Movement, respectively) that led to their arrest and subsequent jail time but solidified their position as a leader of their cause. Furthermore, the jail time led to a restructure of strategy for both of their strategies to consolidate power.

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While Hitler's ideology was focused on the traditional family structure, Castro saw the importance of women to the survival of his regime. Cuba was in need of work after the government's push to produce more crops and nationalize all industries. Castro's policies reflected this; the Family Code of 1975 was aimed at helping women in the workplace balance their home life.

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However, Hitler and Castro differ in their consolidation of power as Castro fought Batista's forces directly in the Sierra Maestra Campaign, utilizing local support as well as foreign journalism to further his cause whereas Hitler primarily used the failing democratic system in Germany to obtain power.

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Both Castro and Hitler began their movements through already established political parties (the Ortodoxo and the German Worker's Party). Both leaders attempted violent revolutions that led to their imprisonment and later success. Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch allowed to him to publicly condemn the Weimar regime. Castro's "History Will Absolve Me" speech also led to mass support among the Cuban public.

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Hitler consolidated power by manipulating the existing framework of the constitution while Castro created a new constitution in 1976.

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Both Hitler and Castro maintained a tight control on the use of press to spread their propaganda throughout their countries. That being said, the methods in which they did this differed. Hitler primarily put his efforts initially on political cartoons, and radio where Hitler could give full rambling speeches. On top of that, Hitler appointed Goebbels to head the propaganda branch of his government. Castro was not only way more versatile with propaganda, using everything from radio, newspapers, to documentaries with the purpose tp paint Castro in a positive not. Castro also had specific teams dedicating specific frequencies for domestic news as well as international news. Finally, Castro did not noticeably rely on a propaganda minister like Goebbels, rather he would personally visit stations and his propaganda departments to maintain a personal level of control over them.

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Because Hitlers main goal was world domination under lebenstraum, Hitler immediately began to look at neighboring countries to conquer.  From his position of power, Hitler was able to mobilize his people think of external threats to his "aryan" society was well as get rid of religious groups such as the jews.
Castro on the other hand immediately focused on the improvements to quality of life within Cuba, granting more rights to women as well as jobs in general to the public. Castro was also a communist, something that Hitler hated in general. Castro focused on bettering the country while Hitler focused on expansion.

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Both Castro and Hitler used and abused their police forces to ensure that "counter-revolutionary" or anti-Nazi people were limited in their ability to spread their ideas, through the Stormtroopers and secret police, respectively. Both also held tight control of the media and press in each country.

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Hitler's consolidation of power was heavily influenced by his route of legal revolution. Given his failure at Beer hall Putsch, he was unable to organize the entire nation and eliminate rivals until he was in a position of power to do so. His consolidation of power was accomplished in the Reishtag and ended as a result of Hindenburgs death. Castro's route was different. Given his successful militant revolution, his consolidation was very much blended with his rise, following almost immediately after the Sierra Maestro campaign.

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Both Hitler and Castro got rid of people that did not agree with them, and both rulers also did not allow for political demonstrations to be held, so as to prove that there was no opposition, when in reality there was. In the PowerPoint, it describes how Castro arrested Church leaders, or maintained a wary watch on them, similar to Hitler.  Hitler controlled the Catholic church and only allowed them to remain, because they did not politically oppose him.

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Castro was more of a modern thinker when it came to women. Castro gave them all rights in society, while Hitler stuck to the stereotype that women could only be mothers. Also Castro maintained power by taking farms, and giving land to the government, while Hitler was more into controlling the people's time and ideology, then their land.

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Castro and Hitler had similar consolidation of power, because they started out by concurring the people's ideology. Castro with reform of the sugar economy, and telling people that they should get ride of American imperialism, and Hitler with his stab in the back theory related to throwing out the Treaty of Versailles and the French occupation, and not paying reparations, so as to help German economy. Also Hitler also ran on an Ant- Western platform in getting people to side with him

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Castro in his consolidation of power went after controlling the farmers and the laborers, placing them in power, and giving the land back to them, while really also buying their land for the governments needs, While Hitler focused on controlling the upper class and just expected the lower class to support him.

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Both Castro and Hitler had an radical and violent way of killing off their opponents during their consolidation. While Castro himself
organized publicly broadcasted political executions, Hitler had to do it in a more "subtle" manner. For example the night lot long knives was only made legal until after it transpired. Hitler was relying on the inept abilities of Hindenburg.

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Both Castro and Hitler placed people in charge of overseeing propaganda. (Goebbels for Hitler & Herrero for Castro). By utilizing propaganda, they convinced the public to view them in a positive light. They created propaganda that villainized countries, leaders,, and people who opposed their viewpoints.

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Castro focused on the social aspects of reforming Cuba. For example, he implemented the Yo Si Puedo Program to decrease illiteracy rates and enforced the Special Period to prevent the collapse of Cuba's economy. Following that, Castro also gave women rights equal to men.

On the other hand, Hitler focused on spreading his ideologies toward the public in order to achieve lebensraum. Instead of educating children, he trained them to prepare for war and disregarded educational purposes. Following that, Hitler neglected women's' rights, and wanted them to stay at home to watch over children, produce children, and cook and clean.

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Both Castro and Hitler implemented a violent revolution to seize control over the government, but failed. Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch and Castro's Moncada Assault both led to them being held on trial. The trials gave them the platform to connect with the public and use their voice to capture the hearts of the audience. While thrown in prison, the creation of Mein Kampf and History Will Absolve Me gained the popularity from their citizens, thus gaining loyalty.

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Hitler had to appeal to both the elite and working class in order to gain popularity. In return, Hitler promised he would save Germany from economic crisis. The elites only agreed to support Hitler if he would wipe out the threat of communism in Germany. However, Castro focused on the appeal of the middle class using the 1940 Constitution. He guaranteed that Cubans will have fundamental rights of equality and freedom of expression in order to gain popularity.

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Both Castro and Hitler maintained power due to a lack of united opposition. Additionally, both monitored their opposition or possible opposition through government surveillance programs which were accustomed to violence. In Cuba, this came in the form of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution. In the Third Reich, this took the form of the SS.

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in maintaining power, Castro focused on what he saw as improvements to the Cuban way of life and effectively removing Cuban from the "shadow of the eagle." This took form in eliminating who he saw as enemies to the regime, reallocating land to the government via the Agrarian Law, and moving the Cuban economy towards communism through the Revolutionary offensive in 1968. In comparison, Hitler focused on spreading the influence of the Third Reich beyond German borders. He executed this through the invasion of Poland and Czechoslovakia, in addition to pumping out massive amounts of propaganda bout the German way of life and in support of Nazi ideology.

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Both Hitler and Castro consolidated power by limiting the individual freedoms within their regimes. Castro executed this by media censorship and personal control of the news sources within Cuba. Hitler, on the other hand, enforced noncompliance with his ideology through the SS, meaning any one dared to disagree with his actions faced serious punishment, thereby limiting free speech.

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The consolidation of power by Castro and by Hitler differ in their legitimacy. Castro's consolidation gain legitimacy because of Cuba's revolutionary past. Despite Castro seizing power through a revolution, Cuba's lack of any true democratic government and Castro's claimed desire to reinstate democratically elected leaders appealed to the Cuban people. On the other hand, Hitler needed to consolidate his power legally due to the bureaucratic presence within Germany.

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Both Castro and Hitler maintained power due to the silencing of the weak opposition in their respective countries. Governmental surveillance programs were created to get rid of any opposition to Castro or Hitler. The Committees for the Defense of the Revolution was created to report counter-revolutionary activity to the government in Cuba, while Hitler also had the SS who would crush all resistance to the Third Reich with force.

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Hitler and Castro's policies of maintaining power differed in the way that they changed the roles of women/social policies. In Hitler's rule, he emphasized the importance of "traditional" family roles. He believed that women should stay at home while the men went out and fought/provided for their family. He thought that they biggest value of women was to create more children for the Hitler youth. On the other hand, Castro saw the importance of having women equally in the society. He granted women all the social rights that men had and believed they were essential to a working economy.

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Both Hitler and Castro turned to a violent revolution as their method to take control of the government however both of their coups failed. Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch and Castros Moncada assault were they original events that showed to the public that they wanted full control of the government. These attacks failed for both leaders, leading them to have to face jail time. For both Hitler and Castro, this time in jail was used to create their party platforms and gain a large amount of support from the people.

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While Castro and Hitler both had nationalism as the main focus of their regimes, they went about it in different ways. Hitler pandered more to the idea of Pan-Germanism and the Aryan Supremacy of the German people, where Germans were above all else. He wanted to expand Germany and the Nazi ideology across Europe (Lebensraum). Castro, however, focused more on mobilizing Cuba to not be dependent on foreign powers for their economy.  He passed the Agrarian reform Act of 1963, expropriating all of the farm lands away from foreign influence.

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Both Castro and Hitler had to appeal to one class in order to gain support however the class that they focused on differs between the leaders. Hitler had to focus on the elite and the working class by promising to fix the economic crisis that the country was facing. Castro focused more on gaining support of the middle class and promising to give everyone equal rights through the 1940 constitution.

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Both Hitler and Castro learned from their mistakes when taking over power of their respective countries. The ability to learn from their failures and to use it to gain even stronger is what consolidated their power. The failure of the Beer Hall Putsch for Hitler was the turning point for him to realize that Germany was only to be taken over through a "legal revolution" and not through a military coup. While Castro learned from the failure of the Moncada Assault and used his charisma to attract the Cuban people to his image and his revolutionary ideas.

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Hitler appealed to the elites in the Reichstag to consolidate his power and made an effort to convince them that he would solve the economical problems of Germany. Castro, meanwhile, focused more on appealed to the middle and working class of Cuba and giving them equal rights through his socialist ideals.

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Hitler and Castro maintained their power through control, the elimination of opposition, and surveillance of their citizens. For so-called "social outcasts", they were eliminated with instruments of force to create a "perfect" population. Hitler monitored, controlled, and killed political opposition and "outcasts" like the Jews through the SS and other militant groups. Castro did the same to political opposition labeled as against the revolution.

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Hitler and Castro contrasted in maintaining power. Hitler saw no real role for women besides the bearer of children that their place was within the home. Castro was the opposite. Castro saw women as equally able to work in the Cuban workforce. They were guaranteed rights to equality (social, economic, political, cultural).

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Both Hitler and Castro consolidated power by limiting individual freedoms. Hitler, through the SS and the Gestapo, intimidated the public. The punishments were possible death or imprisonment. He limited freedom through intimidation. Castro did this by media censorship and personal control of the news. He restricted freedoms of free speech through his Committees of the Defense of the Revolution.

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Hitler had to appeal to both the elites in the Reichstag and the working class to consolidate his power. He had to convince them that he would solve the problems of Germany. Castro focused more on appealing to the working class of Cuba and giving them equal rights through communist and socialist ideals.

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A big similarity between Hitler and Castro was their influence on the youth. Hitler focused on the youth joining the Hitler youth and preparing the youth to fight in military as they got older, and Castro focused on educating the youth about communist ideology and communism. Another similarity is their secret police systems. Castro and Hitler both used their police systems to get rid of any and all opposition, and to isolate the outcasts of society.

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Hitler and Castro maintained power by suppressing basic human rights such as freedom of speech, press and religion through fear, violence and policy.

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Castro treated minorities with respect and gave them better treatment than under Batista's rule while Hitler hated minorities and took extreme measures to get rid of them in order to create a perfect German race.

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A difference between Hitler and Castro was their role of woman in their societies. Hitler believed there was no other need for woman besides bearing children. Castro believed that woman should have equal rights, and should be able to work for Cuba and the Cuban economy.

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Both Hitler and Castro had failed revolutions or coups. Hitler failed his beer hall putsch which lead to a greater gain of followers through publicized trials and a change in approach to gaining and maintaining power. Castro failed at the Moncada Assault which lead to jail time and one of his most famous speeches, the "History Will Absolve Me" speech.

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Both Hitler and Castro had a failed attempt at a revolution. Hitlers Beer Hall Putsch and Castros Moncada Attack allowed both of these leaders to realize what was needed to overthrow the current government and consolidate power.

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Hitler had to consolodate power by appealing to the working class because he had to promise a solution to the economic struggles of Germany. Castro on the other hand focused on the middle class, and promoted equal rights and communism for Cuba.