Loyalty outranks expertise, and reality bends to the leader’s word. From Nazi Germany to Imperial Japan, fascist war machines collapse on the same contradictions.
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This compelling film examines survival and moral compromise among those caught inside the machinery of the Nazi regime.
Comparisons of Trump to Hitler have become common. But some of Trump’s policies may more closely resemble those of Francisco Franco of Spain, says a Spanish scholar.
Nuremberg, often called ‘history’s greatest trial’, officially opened on October 18 1945. It held senior Nazi leaders to account for war crimes during the Holocaust.
A podcast detailing the wartime diary of 26-year-old Lorna Lloyd resonated deeply with participants of a new study.
The German population was transformed under Nazism into a “bystander society” – even before the conditions of wartime normalised acts of excessive violence.
China’s Xi Xinping had trialled his COVID lockdown measures on what he callously called the ‘virus’ of the Uighurs, writes Stan Grant. COVID lockdowns are now over, but the trace of tyranny remains.
Many conspiracy theories and disinformation are rooted in antisemitic tropes which spread harm and undermine our democratic institutions.
It’s difficult for regimes to galvanize public opinion or maintain people’s willingness to accept the sacrifices associated with a war waged for questionable reasons.
Women were not really present during the signing of the Four Powers Agreement but they were at home in parliament. Film often demand sexy more sympathetic female characters
One of Australia’s largest groups of flower species is named after a wealthy British slave-trader. And Nazi memorabilia collectors have almost sent “Hitler’s beetle” extinct. It’s time for a change.
Following the war, the South African authorities were anxious to charge known war criminals, traitors and collaborators. But nothing came of it.
Some presidents have lied for honorable reasons, while for others the lies have been simply self-serving.
A would-be speaker at the Republican National Convention was yanked for encouraging people to read up on a hoax that has long been discredited but refuses to die.
Even a highly popular and respected leader can lose an election, writes a historian – especially if they don’t have a plan for the future. Churchill was one of them.
The U.S. suicide rate has been increasing for decades. According to a sociologist who studies suicide, depression is just one factor among many implicated social conditions.
During the Second World War, anxious but also bored BBC listeners found comfort in the soothing sounds of Sandy Macpherson, Canadian-born organist.
Online videos of Hitler getting angry at things, based on a 2004 film scene, have found enduring appeal and recently featured in a Fair Work Commission case. Why the furor?
About 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and deported to concentration camps in the German Reich in the immediate aftermath after Kristallnacht, the night of the Broken Glass, in November 1938.
The risk of “pathocracy” is always close. And once entrenched, difficult to dislodge.
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Faculty, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Gratz College
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Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence and Professor of Architecture, University at Buffalo
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Assistant Professor of Media, Communications and Journalism, California State University, Fresno
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Senior Lecturer in Modern German History, University of Huddersfield
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Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford
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Lecturer, Philosophy of Traditional Judaism, Colorado State University
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Winthrop Professor of English, The University of Western Australia
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Reader, History, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Associate Professor, University College Dublin
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Senior Lecturer in History, Kingston University
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Associate Director of Jewish Studies, Lecturer, Arts & Sciences Writing Program, Boston University
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Professor of Law and Humanities, Queen Mary University of London
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Chaired professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
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Professor in History, University of Liverpool
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Lecturer in German history, University of Leeds