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Did Fascism/Nazism have a theoretical tradition leading up to its implementation? Who were the thinkers in this tradition?

From my (American, White) perspective, "democracy"  has a long and seemingly coherent philosophical tradition consisting of figures such as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Madison, and others. 

Did Fascism/Nazism (I'm thinking specifically in the early/mid 20th century) claim an analogous kind of intellectual foundation? I know for instance that "Mein Kampf" was important in Nazi Germany, but I see that as more of a political statement in a particular moment.

Thanks in advance!
gpt
You might want to read George Mosse's *The Crisis of German Ideology:Intellectual origins of the Third Reich."  However, both ideologies were a hodge-podge of often unrelated and even ultimately conflicting ideas borrowed from many sources strictly for propaganda purposes and not to expound a coherent philosophical perspective.