Despite their common descent, the Ashkenazim and the Sephardim were, I am sad to say, not natural‐born allies, and their cultures differ more than you might expect (hence why I typically say ‘Jewish cultures’; to remind you that only some cultural phenomena are truly pan‐Jewish). Even in the concentration camp, a shared...
About 20 masked NMR [neofascists] stormed the camp on Sunday, attacking several sheds while shouting at people to leave the area, explained Ion. “I was scared. They were very threatening.” He noted that the attack lasted 10-20 minutes, after which he picked up his phone and said he was going to call the police. The men...
The responsibility for the crime of the murder of the whole Jewish nationality in Poland rests first of all on those who are carrying it out, but indirectly it falls also upon the whole of humanity, on the peoples of the Allied nations and on their governments, who up to this day have not taken any real steps to halt this crime....
An excellent Critical Theory Workshop lecture and Q&A on fascisms and liberalisms—contemporary but also historical—through a dialiectical materialist lens.
The true French Canadian is entirely determined by the powerful forces of ‘the blood, the soil and the past’, wrote Lionel Groulx, echoing the famous expression penned by Maurice Barrès — ‘the blood, the soil and the dead’, but Groulx saw the ideal as very rare....
Terragni also evoked the atmosphere of 1922 in his Sala O, where the walls surged out toward the visitors in a burst of new volumes. Every space was full; panels sliced through the room diagonally, with Mussolini’s profile rendered in metal; the phrase “Paradiso bolscevico” served as a caption for a photograph of starving...
Pictured: Tripartite conference in Rome consisting of Engelbert Dollfuß (Federal State of Austria), Gyula Gömbös (Kingdom of Hungary) and Benito Mussolini (Kingdom of Italy) signing Protocols №№ 1, 2, & 3 among Austria, Hungary, and Italy....
A dentist had a patient for thirteen years. She asked him what he thought about the war. He didn’t say anything bad. He said, very cautiously, “If you look at the Führer’s daily bulletin, there’s this warning, there’s this warning. There’s the news from Stalingrad: our troops are retreating, and this and that. And...
Pictured: ‘WEAPONRY: Behold the most opportune weapon.’ A propagandistic (and racist) postcard by Enrico De Seta depicting a giant Fascist deploying sulfur mustard against Ethiopians. (Source.)...
For the estimated 700 children conceived by [Wehrmacht] soldiers from 1940 to 1946, the situation was more challenging. The [Axis] had lost and German people found themselves very unpopular. This reflected on their soldiers’ children abroad and manifested in taunts and alienation by native Finns. A few dozen were named after...
The traditions of the German fraternities also draw on the ethnonationalist and antisemitic ideologies of the 1920s and ’30s. Then as now, fraternities serve as a breeding ground for radical right‐wing parties and think tanks, and for the hole right‐wing apparatus....
The most important question that we should ask ourselves is ‘why?’ Why would a Fascist empire and its innumerable accomplices go through the trouble of persecuting, tormenting, and eventually massacring millions of largely peaceful and mostly unarmed people? How could such an enormous and costly waste of human life possibly...
Believe it or not, as I was planning this topic I didn’t know until an hour ago that today is the eighty‐first anniversary of the first Warsaw Ghetto uprising....
The worst came after dark, of course. Swarms of Proud Boys roamed the streets, looking for the anti-fascists, who were much more likely to actually be from D.C., and who didn’t want violent mobs terrorizing their home. The police often tried to stand between the groups, sometimes whole-heartedly and sometime half-heartedly,...