Facism and Patriotism In the minds of the masses the concepts of Fascism and Patriotism are dichotomized, even polarized, but without an understanding of the meaning of such strong emotional response. Many of those now living have very little personal memory, if any, of the period preceding World War II. What is known, what is felt, concerning that time is somehow connected to an overpowering sense of wrong. The term 'Holocaust' had it's beginning in the development of Nazism, Fascism and the ultimate racism that has come to define to the world the European experience from the end of World War I and World War II. "Patriotism means love of country an