the belief systems of some of the leading Nazis like Himmler, Hess or Rosenberg can better be classified as a kind of “voelkisch” and nationalistic deism or pantheism than as paganism because they reject polytheism, the same applies to today’s ultra-right cults in Germany like the “Artgemeinschaft” or the right-wing fringes of German unitarianism, all these ideologies often were labelled “pagan” by its catholic or protestant critics (many of them like Walter Künneth focussed on the non-christianity of these ideologies and did not critizise their anti-semitsm and racism)

“right-wing fringes of German unitarianism”
Would you care to define “unitarianism” in this context, please?

I meant the “Bund Deutscher Unitarier” and some parts (declining) of the “Deutsche Unitarer Religionsgemeinschaft” (member of the ICUU and the IARF); two small groups with together ~ 1500-2000 members … in the period after 1945, a number of nazis, often linked to pre-war nationalistic pantheist/deist currents joined some small churches who defined themselves as “unitarian” and/or “free protestant” effectively taking them over

Very, very astute observation, Gus. I have recently been reading a 2006 paper on tribalism, by David Ronfeldt, of the Rand Corporation. In it, he suggests that:
“. . .fascism, which fuses hyper-tribalism and hyper-hierarchy, is due for a resurgence.”
The full text of the paper (pdf) can be downloaded at http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR433/

While I agree with the conclusions and definitions you have used, I don’t really personally give much weight to the word fascism.
I only use the word because its connotations and denotations work better than trying to explain what is really happening, a drift back into feudalism.
Just as socialism and communism are thinly disguised feudalism unless they are based on total democracy and a powerful common law with a strong line of civil rights, (which as far as I have been able to find out has never happened on a national scale. Sweden comes close but is really a capitalist-Socialist blend.), fascism is just another name for feudalism. It’s an interesting adaptation of the old forms, in that it often uses propaganda engines for conquest rather than pure violence, but eventually leads to the same end, wealth in the hands of a tiny minority with everyone else slaving under their yoke. The mid-twentieth century fascisms merely lacked the time required for the underlying royal families to emerge and assasination, family descent, or small warfare to become the principal modes of regime change. When the propaganda engines start spending major portions of their time singing the praises of the current tyrant and his court it marks that phase. The legalization of private armies/security forces confirms it.
Here in the U.S. the feudalism is concealed under a cloak of capitalist rhetoric and terminology. The title C.E.O. in many cases bears far more power over the lives of others than the old titles Duke or Earl, and current corporate executives certainly have proven that they have the legal authority and personal amorality to wreck the lives of the commoners without mercy. In the healthcare insurance industry they can even let people die and still be treated as royalty.
The fascinating thing about the emerging economic feudalism in the U.S. is the way the royalty gets worshipped without being actually identified. Nobody really names the Duke of Exxon, the Earl of Goldman, Sachs, etc. And the whole absurd parasitic nightmare is supported by a giant fiction, that if you’re clever enough and work hard enough you may be able to climb up to being one of the royalty. In truth, only the families or those retainers willing to kiss their butts from just the right angle are going to be allowed in.
But the American neofascist movement does have one characteristic feature in common with the older fascisms, powerful, amoral, well-funded propaganda engines.
And for me the real test of whether we have fallen into feudalism is being done right now. If our politicians allow the current economic royalty to take the huge bailout funds they have been given and use them to co-opt the properties, wealth, and companies which their stunningly stupid manipulations drove into collapse in value, instead of shoring them up and leaving them in the hands of those people who actually worked to create or purchase them, then it will be clear that our media, politicians, and political systems are merely their dupes, and we have fallen into full-blown feudalism.
After that, it’s not whether, but when, the other trappings of feudalism follow. And the Bush regime has already tried the waters as to whether the people can be propagandized into accepting them.
The fundamental components of a police state, a powerful secret police who can operate without judicial review and ignore civil rights, executive rule through decree, and the ability to inculcate terror through torture, are already in place. And the American people, politicians, and media have sat and went “duh” while they were being put in place.
It seems that there are already enough idiots who can be persuaded, and enough lie-spin charlatans to do the persuading.
But it’s fascinating to watch the processes in the evolution of language and ideas, the ability to explain away or glorify the oppression of the majority by a cruel and psychotic minority.
The current healthcare bs superspray is a beautiful example. They’ve got people who are at great risk of dying or being impoverished for lack of properly administered healthcare fighting savagely against properly administered healthcare so the “leaders” of the capitaist healthcare industry can buy lamborghinis, yachts, and houses in the Hamptons with the money they have stolen from the healthcare industry. (Oh, and they also buy expensive-whore propagandists.)
It’s kind of disgusting to watch, but it’s the art of the con-man carried to a spectacular level of accomplishment. I must admit I admire their ability even as I hope they step in sh*t.
Thermal

One key element in the development of fascism in Germany was the predominance of corporations without which fascism would never have taken hold, and which benefited mightily by the Nazi regime.
The single biggest danger to American democracy is the doctrine of “Corporate Personhood.” The involvement of Corporations in politics will be single biggest reason America becomes a fascist nation.

Facism can be defined quite well as being ; A socioeconomic and political system maitained by force and propaganda in which private enities either capture or form a union with public officials for the purpose of advancing the causes of those private enities.
The primary founders of a facisist system are likely to be persons with significant economic and or political means,while the secondary promoters of facism tend to be persons of limited economic advantage and education.The secondary adherents of facism are often lured towards that system by the primary promoters skillfull use of propaganda,coupled with promises of greater economic succsess and or social stability.
Despite the opinions of some,it is imperitive to understand that virtualy any scociety can succumb to the deadly lure of facism.It is also true that any scociety in which ”public saftey” takes presidence over the individuals right to choose his or her own course of action in times of danger,”even when the possible choices in no way effect the public directly”is already in essence, a facist scociety.Ironicaly such scocieties nearly always sacrifice public wellbeing as well as individual freedom for the financial benifit of the dominate economic and industrial powers of that scociety.
It is interesting to note that here in the US it is now possible to be forcably removed from ones own home in the event of a crises, while the well heeled media corporations proudly send employees straight into even the most danderous of situations,”for the sake of course of drawing more viewers and thus increasing advertising sales.This unfortunatly, is only one of the examples of how the freedoms of ordinary Americans are curtailed while the rights of the wealthy buisness sector are promoted even to the point of being harmfull to community wellbeing.Consider the fact that here in the US we now have more persons incarcerated per capita than any other nation on earth.Two out of every three prisoners in this country have been denied their liberty due to non-violent drug offences.Thanks to the war on drugs, even a otherwise law abiding ,”productive”citezen can be inprisonend for a full five years for the mere possesion of as little as a sugar packet size quanity of controled substance.The ardent promoters of the drug war use several supposedly justifing arguments in defence of their extream tactics.One of the most common arguments employed by the drug warriors is that drug use decreases individual, ”and by extension”collective productivity.Thus to the drug warriors, the primary reason humans exist,and the only reason we should be free, is in order to economicaly productive ! It is ironic indeed that wealthy mining companies can obtain permits allowing them to poison community water supplies without significant consequence while an individual suffering from cancer can be prosecuted for merly using a plant or a plant deritive in order to alleviate pain !
The facts if ignored or denied will not lead to individual nor collective freedom.Only by knowing and dealing with the reality that our country is well on the way towards the open practice of facism ,can we even hope to ”become ”the land of the free and home of the brave.