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SOURCE: The Atlantic
5/31/2022
The Back Channel Between Pius XII and Hitler
by David I. Kertzer
The Vatican has only just now released documents about secret and sensitive negotiations between the Nazi leader and the Holy See, in which the Vatican agreed to temper criticisms of Nazism's pagan elements in exchange for ceasing investigation of sex crimes by priests.
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SOURCE: World Socialist Website
4/25/2022
World Socialist Website: Tim Snyder Changes Conclusions on Ukrainian Fascism
Have influential historians of Eastern European nationalism and antisemitism softened their assessment of Ukrainian nationalism because of the Russian invasion?
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SOURCE: Boston Review
3/21/2022
Who Gets to Be American?
by Jonna Perrillo
Johann Tschinkel, a Nazi scientist, was recruited by the United States after the war. His reflections on his educational experiences in Germany and those of his children in segregated American schools, offer a warning about the efforts to control the social studies curriculum today.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
3/17/2022
Now is the Time to Revisit Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism
by Anne Applebaum
The political and economic supports for stability and prosperity in the developed world are more precarious than ever; the revival of authoritarianism that Arendt predicted may be at hand, making her work more vital than ever.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
3/14/2022
How Four Interwar American Journalists Saw the Rise of European Totalitarianism
by Karin Wulf
Deborah Cohen's new book looks to the stories of four American journalists to understand what the world saw clearly about the rise of Hitler and Stalin and what they missed.
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SOURCE: TIME
3/3/2022
Historians Critique Putin's Historical Claims about Ukraine
by Olivia B. Waxman
Timothy Snyder, Jason Stanley, Omer Bartov and Jeffrey Veidlinger, discuss the specific history of postwar "denazification" and how that process has been misappropriated to justify the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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2/13/2022
The Nazi in the Classroom
by Gary B. Ostrower
American student Edward Sittler adopted German citizenship after the outbreak of World War II and became a Nazi propagandist. After the war, his past was revealed to the public and the Long Island college where he had been teaching German, launching a debate about citizenship, loyalty, and the limits of academic freedom.
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SOURCE: Jacobin
1/27/2022
Remember, too, the Victims Nazis Singled Out for their Politics
by Adam J. Sacks
A German organization dedicated to the remembrance of left-wing victims of the Nazis has had its charitable status revoked. While the history of Nazism's persecution and murder of Jews and other groups is rightly commemorated, Nazism's violence against the political left has been obscured.
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SOURCE: Sh!tpost Podcast
1/20/2022
Ksenia Coffman Corrects Nazi History on Wikipedia
Wikipedian Ksenia Coffman, who has established herself as an expert at rooting out propaganda, Nazi apologetics and misinformation from the internet's encyclopedia, joins far-right watchdog Jared Holt to discuss her work and the tensions between accuracy and accessibility in online history.
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SOURCE: The Nation
1/3/2021
The Uncanny Resemblance of the Beer Hall Putsch and the January 6 Insurrection
by David E. Gumpert
Jailing and silencing Hitler after the Beer Hall Putsch in 1923 nearly destroyed the National Socialist movement. Without significant punishment, will the plotters of the January 6 putsch be able to repeat the Nazis' second, successful power grab?
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SOURCE: The Conversation
12/14/2021
When American Prep Schools Ran Student Exchanges with Elite Nazi Academies
by Helen Roche
"The Napola program appeared to have achieved some success in persuading their American partners to give the Nazi regime the benefit of the doubt, at least in the short term."
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SOURCE: The Guardian
12/9/2021
Burying Leni Riefenstahl: Nina Gladitz's Lifelong Crusade
In 1982, documentarian Nina Gladitz examined Reifenstahl's use of ethnic Roma concentration camp inmates as extras in a feature film, actions which demonstrated her knowledge of and complicity in atrocities. It cost her dearly, professionally and personally, over a decades-long pursuit of the truth.
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SOURCE: Forward
12/3/2021
The US Must Not Repeat the Error of Allowing at Totalitarian Regime to Use the Olympics for PR
by Rafael Medoff
Despite the famed victories of sprinter Jesse Owens, the 1936 Olympics were a victory for Hitler, polishing his regime's image as concerns rose about the persecution of Jews. Amid Chinese persecution of Uyghurs, the US should reconsider participation.
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SOURCE: Forward
12/6/2021
Veracity of Award-Winning Israeli Documentary on Nazi Albert Speer Questioned
An Israeli documentary relied on screenwriter Andrew Birkin's 1970s interviews with Albert Speer. Now Birkin says the film twists the source material to portray Birkin as a whitewasher of the Nazi architecht's crimes.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
12/1/2021
Review: How the Germans Coped With Defeat
by Richard J. Evans
Monica Black's new book argues that irrationality and mysticism filled the cultural void created by defeat and the discrediting of Nazism in postwar Germany; Richard Evans says it doesn't quite prove its case, but offers insight into the present spread of nonsense on social media.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
11/17/2021
Helen Roche's Work Examines the Elite Schools Nazis Modeled on Eton
Helen Roche has published the first comprehensive history of the Napolas, the schools Nazis established to train future leaders of the Reich, and notes deep patterns of exchange between teachers and students at British and German schools before the start of war.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
11/10/2021
Framing Political Violence as Patriotism is Even More Dangerous Than it Sounds
by Jeremy Best
The Republican Party has agreed to label the Capitol rioters of January 6 as patriots resisting a dubious (if not stolen) election result. This is a step toward endorsing more political violence and endangering democratic government.
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SOURCE: Cabinet
9/9/2021
Melcher's Ghosts
by Monica Black
"Denazification prompted less soul-searching than resentment and anxiety among the German population. People worried that their prior affiliations and involvement in everything from war crimes to far less nefarious acts—like having obtained property illegally during the Nazi years—would be revealed."
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SOURCE: Wired
9/7/2021
Ksenia Coffman's Struggle to Root out Nazi Sympathy on Wikipedia
A downside of Wikipedia's culture of consensus and openness means that articles on Nazism often conceal, soft-peddle, or otherwise diminish the scope of Nazi crimes, frequently relying on dubious sources, deceptive quotations, or falsification.
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8/29/2021
Richard J. Evans on Fascism, Today's Right, and Historical Truth
by Aaron J. Leonard
"Honest historians know they have to abandon their arguments when the evidence turns out to disprove them; dishonest historians and conspiracy theorists bend the evidence to fit the argument."
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