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The articles published on the New Fascism Syllabus website are intended to foster scholarly inquiry and enrich discussions and debates of topics thematically related to our project. The views expressed in the articles published here do not necessarily represent the views of the Editorial Board or its individual members.

Queer Memory and Black Germans

June 8, 2021 Tiffany Florvil 4

In “The German Catechism,” Dirk Moses offers an interesting intervention by challenging the idea of the Holocaust’s uniqueness as well as current debates about the […]

The Wrath of Moses, or The Shadow Side of German Memory Culture

June 7, 2021 Andrew Port 5

The poor Germans: damned if they don’t, damned if they do. Long criticized for supposedly “repressing” disagreeable memories of the Third Reich, Germans eventually became […]

A Commitment to Holocaust Remembrance Does Not Justify Denial of Equal Rights

June 4, 2021 Alon Confino 2

Dirk Moses has written a much needed and thoughtful text on the German use and abuse of Holocaust remembrance. “The German catechism,” as Moses dubbed […]

Polemics and Provocations

June 3, 2021 Johannes von Moltke 1

Dirk Moses’s short piece for Geschichte der Gegenwart has hit a nerve, to be sure, as polemics will. Hard to imagine that a rewriting of […]

A Plea for More Balance

June 2, 2021 Bill Niven 2

Anyone who has read Dirk Moses’ recent article “The Catechism of the Germans” can hardly not be impressed by the power of the writing and […]

On the Misleading Framing of Plausible Insights

June 1, 2021 Paula Villa Braslavsky 3

Dirk Moses published an important, interesting and timely piece on what the describes as the “catechism” of German Holocaust remembrance. The piece has sparked an […]

Confessions of an Ex-Believer

June 1, 2021 Frank Biess 6

I read Dirk Moses’ provocative piece with a series of mixed emotions: widespread agreement and internal nodding regarding the general substance, if perhaps not the […]

In Absentia of Black Study

May 31, 2021 Zoe Samudzi 2

Last week, the German government offered a recognition of its early 20th century genocide of the Ovaherero and Nama people in what was then German […]

Does Holocaust Memory Still Matter?

May 28, 2021 Udi Greenberg 3

In the heart of Vienna, a stone’s throw from university’s main compound, stands a statue of an antisemite. It celebrates Karl Lueger, the charismatic mayor […]

“Sieferle von links”: A Fair Criticism?

May 28, 2021 Helmut Walser Smith 2

Unfortunately, in one crucial aspect, yes. The problem lies in the reified religious language of Dirk Moses’s polemic, concentrated in his evocation of Heinrich von […]

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The #NewFascismSyllabus is a crowd-sourced collection of scholarly writings on the history of fascist, authoritarian, and right-wing populist movements and governments. It is intended to serve as an entryway into the scholarly literature for those seeking deeper insights into how past societies have gravitated towards authoritarianism, and seeks to provide comparative perspectives on how everyday people, as well as cultural authorities and civil institutions, coped and, in some cases, resisted these changes.

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