Nazism

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  11/16/2020
  

  Can We Hold Trump And His Allies Accountable Without Further Splitting America?

  by Samuel Huneke

  A process of accountability must target official decisionmakers who broke the law, avoid imposing collective guilt on Trump supporters, and above all, not expect quick or complete success. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  11/12/2020
  

  What We Can Learn About Nazi Psychology From the Wives of Hitler’s Top Officials

  A new book, excerpted here, assess everyday life under Nazism by attention to the lives of the wives of leading Nazis. 

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• SOURCE: ABC News
  11/8/2020
  

  Dutch Protestant Church Admits Failing Jews in World War II

  René de Reuver, speaking on behalf of the General Synod of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, said the church’s role began long before Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany.

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• SOURCE: Vanity Fair
  

  “Nationalism Will Run Roughshod Over Democracy”: What Can Nazi Germany Tell Us About Trump’s GOP? (Podcast)

  As Trump’s fearmongering, demonization, and threats of violence have invited comparisons to Hitler’s rise, historian Peter Fritzsche separates fact from exaggeration on "The Hive" podcast.  

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• SOURCE: Medium
  9/15/2020
  

  Trump’s Brownshirt and Incitement to violence: A view from History

  by Waitman Beorn

  Donald Trump's public approval of right-wing militia activity in an election year resembles the way that Adolf Hitler pursued power through electoral channels while applying selective political violence to left-wing opponents. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/8/2020
  

  ‘JFK,’ by Fredrik Logevall: An Excerpt

  Read an excerpt from Fredrik Logevall's new biography of John F. Kennedy touching on the collegiate Kennedy's observations of Europe as World War II began.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/4/2020
  

  A Secret Diary Chronicled the ‘Satanic World’ That Was Dachau

  For two years, a prisoner in the German concentration camp kept a journal that would later be used to convict those who had persecuted him and killed his fellow prisoners.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/6/2020
  

  ‘Weimar America’? The Trump Show Is No Cabaret

  by Niall Ferguson

  Popular culture and lazy historical comparisons have elevated Weimar Germany as an analogue for contemporary America. Ferguson suggests reasons to dial back the comparisons; while current events are troubling, US democracy is more stable and stronger than the Weimar Republic.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/28/2020
  

  Unsealed Archives Give Fresh Clues to Pope Pius XII’s Response to the Holocaust

  Reports by historian David Kertzer that documents in the Vatican archives reflect on the antisemitism of Pope Pius XII and his advisors have sparked countercharges by church historians that reports based on newly available sources will give priority to sensational findings. 

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• 8/23/2020
  

  Where Will the Culture of Internet Attacks Lead? Nazi Opponent Friedrich Kellner's Diaries Offer Warnings

  by Robert Scott Kellner

  The diary of a German Social Democrat and local official who observed and opposed the Third Reich offers a warning about today's unleashed online anger. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/11/2020
  

  Museum’s Future Clouded by Chance Discovery: Swastika Hiding in Plain Sight

  The discovery of a Nazi symbol in the mosaic floor of a German museum has prompted bitter debate about its creator’s past and the institution’s role.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  8/4/2020
  

  German Ambassador Pick Disparaged Immigrants and Refugees, Called for Martial Law at US-Mexico Border

  Douglas Macgregor described the German cultural concept of "Vergangenheitsbewältigung," which seeks to "cope with the past" and confront the atrocities the country committed in World War II, as a "sick mentality" and he downplayed the country's Nazi history.

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  7-25-20
  

  When Is a Nazi Salute Not a Nazi Salute?

  by Matt Seaton

  A controversy has unfolded about a stock image caption which suggests Senator Burton K. Wheeler gave a Nazi salute at a 1941 America First Rally.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  7/6/2020
  

  How to Confront a Racist National History

  by Isaac Chotiner

  "But we have to acknowledge that we’re not upholding history, we’re upholding values, and those are not the values that we want in the twenty-first century."

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• SOURCE: The Sportsman
  6/22/2020
  

  On this Day in 1938, Joe Louis and Max Schmeling Went to War

  Although his title fight with Joe Louis was treated as a symbol for both racial conflict and the looming battle between fascism and democracy, the German heavyweight was relieved to be dumped as a mascot of the Nazi party after a decisive loss to the African American champion.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/23/2020
  

  What Persuades White Southerners to Remove Confederate Flags and Monuments?

  Social science experiments suggest that white Southerners can be persuaded to let go of the Confederacy through frank discussion of the region's history of racism. Comparisons to Nazi Germany? Not so much. 

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• SOURCE: Champaign (IL) News-Gazette
  6/21/2020
  

  UI Historian Takes Close Look At Nazis’ First Days In Power

  University of Illinois professor Peter Fritzche has written a recent book on the first 100 days of the Third Reich which considers the balance of Hitler's influence and prevailing currents of antisemitism and authoritarianism in the German public. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  6/15/2020
  

  Revisiting Mengele’s Malignant “Race Science”

  New histories suggest that the notorious Nazi was less a twisted figure than a true believer in a long-standing movement to use science to prove racial superiority.

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• 6/14/2020
  

  The SS Officer's Armchair

  by Daniel Lee

  The discovery of a trove of documents in an old armchair led the author on a five-year search for information about a previously anonymous Nazi, whose history intersected with the author's family in surprising ways.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  5/4/2020
  

  New York Fed Paper Finds Pandemic a Century Ago Fueled Nazi Rise

  As far-right political movements gain in the U.S. and abroad, a paper by an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York argues that the influenza pandemic of 1918-1920 fueled the rise of Nazism in Germany.