A Century Later: A Renewed Open Letter Against the Return of Fascism
On May 1st 1925, with Mussolini already in power, a group of Italian intellectuals publicly denounced Mussolini’s fascist regime in an open letter. The signatories […]
Nazism
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 […]
The Illusion of Control: A Historiographical Essay on the Capabilities and Limits of Fascist Authority
This review essay was originally written for Dr. Brian J Griffith’s upper-division reading seminar, “Comparative Fascisms: 1920s to the Present,” at University of California, Los […]
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 […]
“Sieferle von links”: A Fair Criticism?
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 […]
In Support of Difficult History
Anna Hájková, a historian of sexuality in the Holocaust, notes that investigating queer and other “deviant” sexuality requires a certain stamina. Probing the gaps in […]
How to Keep the Lights On in Democracies: An Open Letter of Concern by Scholars of Authoritarianism
Regardless of the outcome of the United States’ election, democracy as we know it is already imperiled. However, it is not too late to turn […]
Teaching Germany 1933 in USA 2017
One of the motivations for starting New Fascism Syllabus was the very pedestrian fact that I needed a syllabus. Perhaps I owe it to contributors […]
