Review: Jürgen Zimmerer, Germany’s History Wars
Zimmerer, Jürgen. Germany’s History Wars: Contesting Memory and Identity Today. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025. On November 12, 2025, the German parliament accepted a new […]
Holocaust Memory
An Open Letter in Defense of Academic Freedom and the Historian Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe
We, the undersigned, protest against the state-sponsored defamatory attacks on the German-Polish Holocaust historian Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe and the ongoing campaign of intimidation against scholars and […]
Review: Sarah Phillips Casteel, Black Lives Under Nazism
Casteel, Sarah Phillips. Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. Black Lives Under Nazism by […]
What is the Direction of Queer Kinship? On Jennifer Evans’s The Queer Art of History
I was reading Jennifer V. Evans’ magnificent The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism in the summer of 2023. As books have a […]
Letter of Support for Scholars in Poland
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 […]
Why Right-Wing Appropriation of Commemoration Harms the Fight against Anti-Semitism
This article was republished on the New Fascism Syllabus with the permission of the author and the original publisher, Berliner Zeitung We the invited […]
Russia, the Dutch Far Right, and the Politics of World War II Remembrance
Since the most recent phase of Russia’s eight-year-long conquest of Ukraine began in late February 2022, much of Europe has mobilized politically against the Russian […]
Refusing the Extended Hand
Allow me some genuine modesty: I come to you not as an historian but just as as an unspecified writer—albeit one obsessed with history, and […]
Apocryphal Queers and Gay Orthodoxy
Dirk Moses’ intervention in Geschichte der Gegenwart has unleashed a wave of reactions. For those based outside of Germany, even specialists working on German history, […]
