The Spanish Falange adopted dark blue shirts for their party members, symbolizing Spanish workers, many of whom wore blue shirts. Like them, their uniforms looked typically like military uniforms with Nationalist type insignia of the movement. Other fascist countries largely copied the symbolism of the Italian Fascists and German Nazis for their movements. The Nazis used the swastika for their uniforms and copied the Italian Fascists' uniforms, with an eagle clutching a wreathed swastika instead of a fasces, and a Nazi flag arm sash on the left arm section of the uniform for party members. In Germany, the fascist Nazi movement was similar to the Italian Fascists in that they initially used a specifically colored uniform for their movement, the tan-brown colored uniform of the SA paramilitary group earned the group and the Nazis themselves the nickname of the Brownshirts. In power, uniforms during the Fascist era extended to both the party and the military which typically bore fasces or an eagle clutching a fasces on their caps or on the left arm section of the uniform. In Italy, the Italian Fascist movement in 1919 wore black military-like uniforms, and were nicknamed Blackshirts. Organized fascist movements typically use military-like uniforms with the symbol of their movement on them. Militarist uniforms with nationalist insignia The Spanish Falange took its name from the Spanish word for the Greek phalanx. Most fascist movements adopted symbols of Ancient Roman or Greek origin, for example the German use of Roman standards during rallies and the Italian adoption of the fasces symbol. The use of symbols, graphics, and other artifacts created by fascist, authoritarian and totalitarian governments has been noted as a key aspect of their propaganda.

A number of fascist movements use a straight-armed salute. Duce, Führer, Caudillo) who is publicly idolized in propaganda as the nation's saviour. Fascist movements are led by a 'Leader' (e.g.

Organized fascist movements have militarist-appearing uniforms for their members use historical national symbols as symbols of their movement and use orchestrated rallies for propaganda purposes. The fasces and the swastika, two common fascist symbols

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