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It shows how fascist leaders came to personify their movements and why the F?hreprinzip was applied in all fascist organizations. It also explains how fascist leadership was of a very particular kind: It was almost unlimited in political discipline and required complete subordination. The legitimacy was based on a very vague notion of 'the organic unity of the state and the people' giving the leaders competence to rule without accountability to a party organization or state bodies. Thus we can observe in all fascist parties/movements a practical form of leadership where policies of 'split and rule' were common in absence of principles of representation and opposition feedbacks. The fascist f?hrer was the leader the party the ideology - and when in power: the state itself.