The first (original) Nazi Party was in Germany, but the ideology, imperialistic racist fascism (the lower-case “nazism” ideology, instead of just the original, upper-case “N” Nazi Party that was an example of it) can be inanycountry. ...
One fascist value that's now universally rejected is that of military aggression. But the fall of true fascism in 1945 didn't destroy the movement. Neo-fascism (sometimes "neo-Nazism" if it's specifically based on the views of Hitler) is alive and somewhat well. Mostly, neo-fascism is a...
Did the U.S. government continue progressive reforms in the 1920s? What efforts for reform occurred in the Austrian Empire and in Russia between 1850 and 1870, and how successful were they in alleviating each nation's problem? How the did the political ideology of Nazism affect in...
Nazi Germany and The Humanities. How German Academics Embraced Nazism. Oxford: Oneworld, 2014. 1ii + 428 pp. 25.00 [pounds sterling] (paperback). The world of science and academe in National Socialist Germany has drawn increasing attention in recent years...
s address were scattered around the territory controlled by the Wehrmacht. This is how Paulus became one of the propaganda activists in the battle against Nazism. He eventually joined the ‘Free Germany’ committee in the USSR, set up by the German Communist Party to work with the captive ...
A former assistant pastry chef told Kessler that Hillary Clinton did not approve of maintenance work being done in the White House while they were present. An agent assigned to protect her said that when she was in front of the press she "turns it on", and when the lights are off and ...
What was the state of German culture before the rise of Nazism? German culture before the Nazis was rich and open—censorship was reduced, funding remained fairly generous, and much room existed for innovation. But post–World War I Germany was a starkly divided culture, as modernists and tr...
But Jews were relative latecomers to the global conspiracy theories that formed the basis of Nazism, and that they still feature in so largely today. The person who gave American anti-Semitism its biggest platform ever was the industrialist Henry Ford. “There is a race, a part of...
Like Stern, Gerlach was impacted by Nazism – but in a very different way. Although he never joined the Nazi party and rejected the idea of “Jewish science”, Gerlach headed Germany’s nuclear research programme in the final years of the Second World War. He ended up being interned by...
DUBNER: And why did you switch to journalism? The reason I ask is that I wish this happened more. We have a lot of well-trained academics in this country, and your country, and elsewhere, who have great depth of knowledge in a particular field. They don’t often end up in journalism...