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I Shall Bear Witness – Victor Klemperer in His Time, and Ours

February 8, 2025 Adam Blackler 0

Victor Klemperer’s diary is a remarkable testimony on life in Nazi Germany told from the perspective of someone whom the state sought to eradicate from the population—and it makes for chilling reading today.

Letter of Support for Scholars in Poland

June 2, 2023 Editorial Board 0

We, the editors of the New Fascism Syllabus, condemn the suppression of academic freedom in Poland and the recent attacks on our colleagues, Dr. Barbara […]

The Documenta, Indonesia, and the Problem of Closed Universes

July 24, 2022 A. Dirk Moses 5

The Taring Padi art collective was formed in 1998 after the fall of the Suharto dictatorship. Explicitly radical, it is dedicated to antimilitarism, anti-neoliberalism, to […]

Art Is Political: Is Documenta Afraid of the Global South?

July 22, 2022 Euge Murillo 1

documenta, the world’s most important international exhibition of contemporary art, has been held in the German city of Kassel every five years since 1955 and […]

Why Right-Wing Appropriation of Commemoration Harms the Fight against Anti-Semitism

July 8, 2022 Hijacking Memory Collective 1

This article was republished on the New Fascism Syllabus with the permission of the author and the original publisher, Berliner Zeitung   We the invited […]

Learning and Unlearning with Taring Padi: Reflections on Documenta

July 2, 2022 Michael Rothberg 4

This article was republished on the New Fascism Syllabus with the permission of the author and the original publisher, Berliner Zeitung   I have not […]

Stones Can Talk Back: Vergangenheitsbewältigung Revisited

June 9, 2021 Mirjam Brusius 3

The German Catechism, as laid out in Dirk Moses’ essay, was not always as binding as it now seems. Not long ago, in 2017, Benjamin […]

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 […]

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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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