When discussing nationalism, in my mind, the word itself brings me to the Holocaust and Germany's hyper nationalism. I've found that i have never been one to support the idea of nationalism even with my own people as it gives the people of a nation a sense of superiority and ownership of their “inferiors”, which history has proven it leads people to excuse their violent and oppressive nature. Nationalism and democracy as two terms slinging together leads to a fascist regime, much like the United States current political climate. Nation-branding is the idea of how a nation presents itself to the outside world and the propaganda that it feeds to the people. In the 1930s, when the Germany’s economy was in extreme turmoil and the sentiments of defeat and widespread depression plagued their people, nationalism was in a sense used as a defense mechanism. In the worst way possible, it healed those by taking the blame away from Germany as a whole for their failure and instead placed it