At the end of the 1980s, Zeev Sternhell spoke

of the cultural origins of fascism in the interwar period, noting that «in reality we were facing a generalized European phenomenon » (Sternhell, 1994). Without a doubt, fascist-style authoritar-ian regimes existed in different European coun-tries in the years after the Great War. Their emergence can be attributed to a preexisting fascist culture that was generalized throughout Europe and which had its origin in anti-ratio-nalism, neo-Romanticism and the «revolution of nihilism», present before 1914 (Mosse, 1997). While the fascist dictatorships of Europe mani-fested themselves in different ways – or at least with ideological and structural differences – it is also true that they shared many cultural aspects