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
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 […]
I Shall Bear Witness – Victor Klemperer in His Time, and Ours
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.
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 […]
Ignore and Reassign: Examining Germany’s Memory Culture in Hungary’s Dark Mirror
Critical engagement with the history of colonialism and colonial crimes has greatly increased in frequency and sophistication in recent years, even if it has admittedly […]
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 […]
Putin and the Weaponization of the Memory of World War II and the Holocaust
Much of the commentary so far on the Russian attack on Ukraine has focused on the intertwined historical and contemporary contexts of the Soviet Union […]
