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.
- Associate Professor of History, Case Western Reserve University
Australia, Canada and the US identified themselves as ‘white men’s countries’ in the early 20th century and coordinated immigration restrictions to keep them that way.
Given the current, often erroneous, use of the term ‘fascist’ to describe political movements and leaders, it’s important to determine what fascism is and is not.
Despite many attempts, the Kurds have never won and kept their own nation – though, after World War I, they came close.
En los años 20 y principios de los 30, sectores de la prensa estadounidense normalizaron el ascenso del fascismo.
Democratic presidential candidates share many ideas and opinions. What they don’t share, writes one historian, is the label ‘liberal.’
Moviegoers get a hint of why Dunkirk stayed with those who lived through it, but an online archive of survivors’ stories offers more depth.
The 1920s and early ‘30’s looked like the beginning of the end for centuries of gay intolerance. Then came fascism and the Nazis.
Après l’élection de Trump, le roman paru en 1949 connaît un regain d’intérêt spectaculaire. Pour autant, l’Amérique d’aujourd’hui n’est pas comparable au monde dystopique imaginé par Orwell.
The best selling book on Amazon is ‘1984’ – which was originally published in 1949. A historian from Case Western Reserve University considers how the novel helps us think about our present moment.
In the 1920s and early 1930s, American journalists tended to put the ascendant fascists on a normal footing.
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