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Book SynopsisHeinz R. Böhme has been collecting artworks of the Lost Generation for more than twenty years. The main focus of his private collection in Salzburg is the recognition of more than eighty artists whose creative work was massively restricted under the National Socialist regime. Large-format illustrations, extensive biographies and a clearly structured list of the pictures in the collection, which currently contains over 350 works, document impressively the achievements of these artists, who were once ostracised and defamed as “degenerate”. Expanded by an interview with the collector, Heinz R. Böhme, and an art-historical and historical overview, the publication traces the fate and life’s work of an almost-forgotten generation of painters and thus permits the general public to rediscover these pioneering artistic positions. and tells a new, exciting history of the modern age Through her artworks.

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Book SynopsisIn American Zealots, Arie Perliger provides a wide-ranging and rigorously researched overview of right-wing domestic terrorism. He analyzes its historical roots, characteristics, tactics, rhetoric, and organization, assessing the current and future trajectory of the use of violence by the far right.Trade ReviewAmerican Zealots is an immensely timely and important publication. Written by one of this country's foremost authorities on far-right extremist violence, it provides a comprehensive analysis of this movement's evolution and trajectory and its implications for American society and politics. -- Bruce Hoffman, author of Inside TerrorismWith unparalleled expertise, Arie Perliger makes sense of the complicated and contentious reality of domestic right-wing terrorism. His explanation of the complexities, deep historical roots, and ideological diversity of the threat is clear and dispassionate. His conclusions are all the more important for being bluntly realistic: there is unlikely to be a decline in right-wing violence unless we devise a wide-ranging public policy response. -- Martha Crenshaw, Stanford UniversityAt a time when both DHS and the FBI have underlined the threat posed from the radical right, Arie Perliger’s American Zealots is a comprehensive and comparative study of right-wing terrorism that sheds light on how the movement emerged, grew within the US military, and our society to become the center of current domestic political debates. Using original data that he collected, the book is anchored in rigorous empirical evidence to explain how we got here and identify the path forward. -- Mia Bloom, author of Small Arms: Children and TerrorismThis arresting book explores the backgrounds of right-wing activists who have terrorized America’s heartland from Oak Creek, Wisconsin to El Paso, Texas in recent decades. Far from being lone wolves, they are supported by a vast community of hatred, this revealing study shows. It descends into America’s underground cultures of violence and helps the reader understand the motivations and organizations of what has become America’s number one terrorist threat. It is essential reading for anyone concerned about the widening chasms of political extremism in the United States. -- Mark Juergensmeyer, author of Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious ViolencePerliger is impassioned and cleareyed about how troubling the trends are...a plainspoken and data-driven yet essential book for understanding the underpinnings of today’s domestic terrorists. * Kirkus Reviews *This book illuminates the threat of the far-right in an accessible, non-jargony way and Perliger’s introduction to the topic may encourage readers to become more informed about some of the complexities and nuances of the far-right...a multifaceted analysis. -- Samantha Kutner, Khalifa Ihler Institute * Critical Studies on Terrorism *A refreshing and valuable perspective...American Zealots provides a valuable contribution to the growing literature of the contemporary far-right in the United States. -- Matthew Valasik * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews *An exceptional read into the domestic terrorist threat....for anyone interested in reading into domestic terrorism, its cultural impact, and the potential for continued acts of violence the book is highly recommended. * Populism *Offers a useful ideological typology of the American far right. * Survival *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. The Challenges of Comprehending and Responding to Domestic Terrorism2. An Ideological Typology of the Violent Far Right3. Historical Pillars of the Violent American Far Right4. Tactics of the American Far Right5.The Rise and Decline of Far-Right Violence in the United States6. Perpetrators of Far-Right Violence7. Contemporary Discourse of the American Far Right8. The Future of the Violent American Far RightAppendix: Methodology and Statistical ResultsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTarquini offers a rich and stimulating synthesis, the best single-volume work available on this complex and challenging subject. This history reveals how the fascists used culture to build a conservation revolution that purported to protect what was good in the traditional social fabric while presenting itself as oriented toward the future.Table of Contents Contents Note to the New Edition Introduction 1. The Historiographical Debate from 1945 to Today 2. 1920s Cultural Politics 3. Intellectuals and Artists in the 1920s 4. The Ideology of the Totalitarian State 5. Cultural Politics in the 1930s 6. 1930s Intellectuals and Artists 7. Cultural Politics and Intellectuals in the 1940s Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing from diaries, journals, school textbooks, and printed propaganda, J.W. Mohnhaupt tells the stories of animals during the Third Reich, focusing each chapter on a different facet of Nazism by way of a specific animal species: red deer, horses, cats, and more.Table of Contents Introduction: The World behind the Wire 1 Blood Ties 2 Digestive Affinities 3 Drawing the Curtain on Larval Stages 4 Morituri 5 Raufbold 6 Not Really Stroganoff Conclusion: Until the Last Dog Is Hung Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisOffers an analysis of the relationship between communism and fascism. This title examines the ideological appeal of these radical, revolutionary political movements, the visions of salvation and revolution they pursued, the value and types of charisma of leaders within these political movements, and their legacies in contemporary politics.Trade Review"[A] fine and undoubtedly enduring study. This affinity of Leninism with Nazism is the argument of Tismaneanu's book. It is a claim that since 1945, and particularly the Cold War, has generated much controversy. A distinguished book." -- William Pfaff New York Review of Books "This volume achieves the rare distinction of being at once nuanced and impassioned. It is likely to remain a durable contribution to a deeper understanding of the great historical outrages of the past century which were closely linked to the concept and reality of totalitarianism." -- Paul Hollander New Criterion "An ambitious and challenging rereading of twentieth-century history." -- John Gray Times Literary Supplement (TLS) "A definitive account of the origins, the appeal, the doctrinal foundations and the political technology of history's two bloodiest political faiths ... this profound and rich book is also a cautionary tale." -- Leon Aron Wall Street Journal "The parallels between communism and fascism have often been noted, fueling endless debates over whether the movements were fundamentally similar or different. The Devil in History ... presents a genuinely fresh perspective on this topic." -- Andrew Nagorski Foreign Affairs "Tismaneanu's lucid narrative walks us through an intellectual landscape that traces the trajectory of totalitarian thinking back to its origins." -- J. P. O'Malley The Daily Beast "At a time when liberal values are showing their frailty and salvationist mythologies are returning to favour in different places, an absorbing comparative essay is provided on the origins, ravages and ultimate failure of the radical totalitarian movements of the last century: communism and fascism. Vladimir Tismaneanu is an appropriate guide, a polymath steeped in the philosophical, literary and social science texts spawned by defenders, apostates and analysts of this phenomenon." -- Tom Gallagher International Affairs "Tismaneanu's real concern is to examine what he calls the 'maximalist utopian aspirations' expressed by communist and fascist regimes in Europe to try to understand how it is that systems that set out with a utopian agenda-world revolution or national rebirth-end up constructing murderous dystopias. There is a consensus in the Western world that these were 'delusional visions', as Tismaneanu calls them, but both European communism and fascism have died as mainstream political forces, making it easier to see them as deluded. The core of this perceptive and intelligent analysis is addressed to the more troubling question of how they were possible at all." -- Richard Overy Times Higher Education "A fascinating, brilliant and captivating book. It is a stupendous achievement." FrontPage Magazine "The book offers a fascinating read with an incredible wealth of bibliographic sources that will benefit all those interested in the topic. The author has succeeded in giving not only a solid account of the spirituality and history of communist and fascist regimes, but also an outstanding testimony of liberal political and normative thinking." -- Camil Roman Cambridge Review of International Affairs "Vladimir Tismaneanu is the perfect political analyst for today, for he is an expert on both the legacies of Nazism and Communism. In spite of optimistic diagnoses and rampant wishful thinking, these two pathologies are not dead. Vladimir Tismaneanu's illuminating book is an antidote against new experiments in utopian radicalism and social engineering." -- Ion Mihai Pacepa WND "Many books have been written about the similarities and differences between communism and fascism, both in theory and practice. None, however, matches the insight, analysis, and deep thought found in The Devil in History." -- Ronald Radosh Weekly Standard "The account provided is particularly strong on separating the critical paradigms of Marxism that emerged in East and West... Getting the record straight here is important and challenges any simplistic notion of Eastern Europe's conversion to liberalism." -- Richard Shorten American Historical Review "Tismaneanu seeks to fulfill the ancient Jewish commandment of remembering and reminding, zachor, lest we forget and it may return... Tismaneanu argues convincingly that a reckoning with the past can be both exorcism and therapy, and insists that there should be no silence or thick line separating the present from the embarrassing past. No reader of this book can accuse its author of ignoring the past." -- Aviezer Tucker Perspectives on PoliticsTable of ContentsForeword Prologue: Totalitarian Dictators and Ideological Hubris 1. Utopian Radicalism and Dehumanization 2. Diabolical Pedagogy and the (Il)logic of Stalinism 3. Lenin's Century: Bolshevism, Marxism, and the Russian Tradition 4. Dialectics of Disenchantment: Marxism and Ideological Decay in Leninist Regimes 5. Ideology, Utopia, and Truth: Lessons from Eastern Europe 6. Malaise and Resentment: Threats to Democracy in Post-Communist Societies Conclusions Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe Germans and the Final Solution stand as the fullest assessment to date of the attitudes of the German public to the Nazi policy of antisemitism and its genocidal conclusion. David Bankiera s pathbreaking work will be widely read by scholars and students of contemporary European Jewish history and the history of Nazi Germany.Trade Review"This is a subtle and well-documented argument that notably advances our understanding of German popular opinion towards the Nazis' anti-Semitic policies." Inside Out "A well written and important book that deserves to be widely read and to be placed in every public library." Times Higher Education Supplement "Bankier's book will be welcomed by anyone teaching German history, Nazism, or the Holocaust, because it is the first book to answer comprehensively the most common student question in any discussion of the Holocaust: What did average Germans know and how did they feel about Hitler's antisemitic propaganda and mass murder?" ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Image and Reality in the Third Reich. 2. Institutionalization and Radicalization. 3. International Crises and Foreign Policy. 4. Public Responses to Anti-semitism 1933-1938. 5. Workers, Peasants and Businessmen. 6. The Awareness of the Holocaust. 7. Public Responses to Anti-semitism 1939-1943. 8. Image and Reality - The End. Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisA collection of some of the writing on the diverse aspects of Nazi Germany. This work provides readers with an insight into the different perspectives on traditional understandings of the Third Reich and covers the central aspects of the period, from the rise of the Nazis and the internal organization of the regime, to Germany's role in WWII.Trade Review"The essays are of high quality, written by respected authors, and some are classics." (Times Higher Education Supplement)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Glossary. General Introduction. 1. Rise of the NSDAP. 2. Seizure and Consolidation of Power. 3. Foreign Policy. 4. Economy. 5. Army. 6. Working Class and Volksgemeinschaft (National Community). 7. Police State. 8. Women. 9. Hitler as Dictator. 10. Resistance. 11. Holocaust/Final Solution. Index.

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Book Synopsisaeo Comprises 12 seminal articles on Nazi Germany. aeo Covers all major aspects of the period, including the rise of the Nazi party, social and economic change, Hitlera s personality, German public opinion. aeo Developed specifically for use with students, to encourage critical study.Trade Review"The essays are of high quality, written by respected authors, and some are classics." (Times Higher Education Supplement)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Glossary. General Introduction. 1. Rise of the NSDAP. 2. Seizure and Consolidation of Power. 3. Foreign Policy. 4. Economy. 5. Army. 6. Working Class and Volksgemeinschaft (National Community). 7. Police State. 8. Women. 9. Hitler as Dictator. 10. Resistance. 11. Holocaust/Final Solution. Index.

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Book SynopsisHeinz Rutha, pioneer of a youth movement that emphasized male bonding in its quest to reassert German dominance over Czechoslovakia, was arrested in 1937 for corrupting male adolescents. This led to an international scandal. Cornwall’s biography is the first to tackle the long-taboo intersection of youth, homosexuality, and fascist nationalism.Trade ReviewTo get right to the point: The Devil’s Wall is without doubt one of the most interesting and innovative books on German–Czech history published in recent years. -- Volker Zimmerman * Journal of Modern History *Brilliantly recreates an intellectual universe in which central Europeans attempted to make sense of homosocial and homosexual relations after World War I… No one, including perhaps Rutha himself, has understood the rising Sudeten German nationalist better than Cornwall… This impressive book presents Rutha as a tragic figure. Cornwall’s decision to begin with Rutha’s suicide gives the entire narrative a sense of painful inevitability. His defining portrait of Rutha is of a man motivated by his sexuality but left increasingly vulnerable by those same sexual inclinations. The Devil’s Wall is an artfully done biography that offers new perspectives on a number of themes dear to historians of Bohemia, sexuality, and early twentieth-century European nationalisms. It is, above all, a compelling story of a surprisingly influential figure in central European history and for that it deserves a wide audience indeed. -- Chad Bryant * Slavic Review *Cornwall’s work is convincing, meticulously grounded in the sources, and at times really path-breaking. For the theme of homosexuality…is still completely ‘under researched’ in the German-speaking culture of the Bohemian lands… The Devil’s Wall is indisputably a significant book, which furthers our understanding considerably. -- Martin C. Putna * Bohemia *The Devil’s Wall looks at how youth, nationalism and homosexuality overlapped with fascism and the Czech–German struggle of early-20th-century Europe. Focusing on Heinz Rutha, a pioneer of a youth movement emphasizing male bonding, Cornwall’s biography of this unusual and possibly repressed figure promises to be engrossing. -- Will Davis * Attitude *Cornwall’s book challenges the historiography of the Czech–German relationship during the 1930s in various ways by bending the historiographical spotlight from the antagonism between Nazi-Sudeten Germans and nationalistic Czechs and focusing instead on the detailed interpretation of the Sudeten German movement and its development prior to 1938. In addition, Cornwall analyzes Heinz Rutha’s sexual life, a study that has not previously been made by historians and was only possible because of unique primary sources and contemporary witnesses. The author, therefore, is able to explain Rutha’s unique concept of Eros within, as well as apart from, his homosexuality. In this aspect, he is in a line of scholars who, during the past two decades, have called for a growing awareness for more sensitive topics such as (homo)sexuality and Eros in the Third Reich. Overall Mark Cornwall’s book will, it is hoped, spark discussion in every aspect. It is well written, as well as convincing, and as such has the potential to make the Sudeten German question known to a wider public. -- Eva Pfanzelter * Austrian History Yearbook *Mark Cornwall has written a superb and necessary examination of the life of Heinz Rutha (1897–1937) and his work as an influential youth leader and prominent figure in the Sudeten German nationalist movement… This book is eminently readable and engaging, making it suitable for both an undergraduate audience as well as experts with a focus on diplomacy and nationalism or the history of sexuality and gender. Cornwall is an exceptional guide through the conflicted and politically volatile historical narratives of Central European history, while consistently adding new insights. The end result challenges accepted preconceptions about the development of Sudeten German nationalism while simultaneously confronting the reader with Rutha’s troubling personal legacy. -- John H. Roper, Jr. * Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth *In The Devil’s Wall Mark Cornwall, Professor of Modern European History at Southampton University, reclaims for LGBT history the little-known story of Heinz Rutha (1897–1937), a German-speaking activist in Czechoslovakia in the years leading up to World War II. Rutha was part of the Wandervogel movement, ostensibly an organization of clean-living lads, but in reality an all-male hothouse which produced a generation of right-wing homosexuals… He was poised to become a leading figure in German politics. But he may have been betrayed by Czech cops, who accused him of (illegal) homosexuality. -- David McGillivray * QX Magazine *[A] remarkably researched biography… The Devil’s Wall rescues Rutha from an undeserved obscurity born of a now bygone taboo. Cornwall promises, and delivers, fresh perspectives on the internal dynamics of the Sudeten German movement, as well as on international dimensions to the Czech–German conflict after 1933… Perhaps the most riveting chapters stretch from the Great War to about 1933. Drawing on a long-lost diary that Rutha kept for half of 1918, Cornwall captures the anxieties of a lower-middle-class Catholic at the age of twenty-one as he experienced not only combat and political catastrophe but attraction to fellow men… Cornwall has written a thorough and thought-provoking study. -- Jeremy King * Slavonic and East European Review *A remarkable book. With his painstaking reconstruction of Heinz Rutha’s short and turbulent life, Cornwall asks us to rethink—often radically—the history of Central Europe in the twentieth century. He successfully demonstrates that Sudeten German nationalism was, in the main, neither inspired nor directed by the Nazis, but was a movement in its own right. He also shows how Rutha’s attempts to deal with his homosexual longings informed his understanding of Sudeten German identity. Highly original in its character and brimming with implications, The Devil’s Wall offers novel and valuable insights to historians of nationalism, diplomacy, and gender and sexuality alike. -- Pieter M. Judson, author of Guardians of the Nation: Activists on the Language Frontiers of Imperial AustriaCornwall’s exquisitely revelatory study of charismatic youth leader and Sudeten German nationalist Heinz Rutha—earnest, seductive, and deeply conflicted—is luminously written and consistently absorbing. From the suicide with which it opens to the haunting aftermath of confused allegations over political betrayal and cross-generational homosexuality, the book beautifully recreates the complex and ambiguous emotional landscape inhabited by pan-German nationalists flirting with Nazism during Czechoslovakia’s brief experiment with democracy between the end of World War I and the annexation of 1938. -- Dagmar Herzog, author of Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century HistoryHighly original and refreshingly challenging, The Devil’s Wall forces us to rethink many of our assumptions about the so-called Sudeten Question. By focusing on Heinz Rutha and youth movements instead of high politics, Cornwall argues for an alternative history of the demise of interwar Czechoslovakia, in which the Sudeten movement is authentically home-grown and not simply the willing puppet of masters in Berlin. The book’s gripping narrative helps us understand that the dramatic outward shift in Sudeten German allegiance in the 1930s was only the final manifestation of a gradual inward development over the preceding decades. In both its textured reconstruction of a single life and its incorporation of gender and sexuality into the history of interwar East-Central Europe, there is truly nothing like this book. -- Benjamin Frommer, author of National Cleansing: Retribution against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia

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Book SynopsisTracing teachers' experiences in the Third Reich and East Germany, this title analyzes developments in education of crucial importance to both dictatorships.Trade ReviewA compelling study that makes an original contribution. Lansing presents an intriguing local case, the industrial city of Brandenburg an der Havel, which allows him to probe the interaction of the district administration with the citywide teaching staff, individual schools, and specific teachers. This is a considerable advance in the literature, which has so far mostly been confined to the national level. Through this case study Lansing portrays a more graphic view of how dictatorships work or fail to work on the local level. -- Konrad H. Jarausch, University of North CarolinaLansing takes a fascinating subject--how two German totalitarian regimes tried to transform the teaching bodies they inherited from previous regimes--and shows the degree to which both regimes were forced to compromise and restrict their ambitions for making large scale changes. This is the only book that traces the transformations--from republican through Nazi and Communist rule--in a single town, a unique perspective that provides valuable insight into shifts in political and academic culture at the local level. The material is fresh, the arguments original, the writing clear. This is an important, even pioneering, work of German and European history. -- John Connelly, University of California, Berkeley

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Book SynopsisExplains why a philo-Semitic association was dissolved even as anti-Semitism was condemned, how the Vatican concluded a concordat with the Third Reich in 1933, why Hitler's "Mein Kampf" was never proscribed by the Church, and what factors surrounded the Pope's silence on the persecution of the Jews.Trade ReviewPope and Devil is a must-read for anybody interested in the Vatican's relationship with Germany in the tumultuous years leading up to World War II, including the hotly debated issue of 'the silence of Pius XII.' This book brings new complexity and insight to the debate on Pius XII's 'silence.' -- John W. O'Malley, S.J., author of What Happened at Vatican II[An] excellent examination of the Pius XI archives...No stranger to the dark side of church history, and intimately familiar with ecclesiastical dogma, politics, and procedure, Wolf presents sensitive material with admirable evenhandedness, avoiding both apology and easy condemnation...Pope and Devil gives us a behind-the-scenes exploration of what made the Vatican tick, providing the sort of background information with which political historians contextualize the decisions of secular leaders like Churchill or Roosevelt. Wolf shows that in the last months of his life Ratti became consumed with the issue of Nazi-inspired racism, and devoted much of his waning energy to it; while Pacelli, for his part, "was clear in his rejection of racial anti-Semitism, and...believed that the church had a general responsibility to support human rights." Both men, however, understood their responsibilities in the light of traditional Catholic priorities. Both viewed Catholic dogma as immutable; and both consistently put Catholic institutional objectives--understood as an essential requirement of salvation--first and foremost. -- Michael R. Marrus * Commonweal *Hubert Wolf's extraordinarily lucid and well-researched Pope and Devil performs the much valued task of throwing light into dark corners sans the sensationalism and tendentious argumentation that have defined too much scholarship in the area...Pope and Devil takes the reader through the labyrinthine corridors of Vatican diplomacy in the 1920s and 1930s, the political turmoil that defined those papal strategies that tried to make sense of or at least limit the damage of the rising totalitarianism inundating Europe, and the intrigue and politicking that characterized the often fraught relationship among such parties as the nuncios or Vatican ambassadors in Berlin and Munich, the papal Secretary of State and the Head of the Supreme Congregation more commonly known as the Holy Office of the Roman Inquisition. No easy feat and Wolf manages it in a way that is both enlightening and entertaining. -- Michael W. Higgins * New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal *Wolf's absorbing study shows in fascinating detail how ready Pius XI was to sup with authoritarian devils of both left and right in hopes of striking the best balance he could. -- Michael Kerrigan * The Scotsman *The Vatican's dealings with the Third Reich during the reign of Pius XII's predecessor, Pius XI (1922-1939), have received rather less attention. But since the archives for that pontificate were opened in 2006, our understanding has increased enormously. Hubert Wolf's book contributes greatly to that understanding. -- John Pollard * Times Higher Education *Wolf has written a very important book. It does not explain the 'silence' of Pius XII, though it certainly exonerates him of the charge that he was in any way sympathetic to the regime in Germany. It also reveals a man with a misplaced confidence in his own competence. -- Michael Walsh * The Tablet *[Pope and Devil] is useful in helping us understand the reasons for the Vatican's consistent refusal to take a bold stand against Hitler and his policies in the years leading up to the war. -- Sergio I. Minerbi * Haaretz *The "silence of Pius XII" remains a contentious issue among historians studying the Third Reich and the Holocaust. Based on documents released by the Vatican Secret Archives during the last decade, Wolf offers an analysis of the pontificate of Pius XI (1922-1939). He carefully sketches the Vatican view of Germany during these years when Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pius XII, was a nuncio in Germany and subsequently cardinal secretary of state. Wolf's explication of these documents reveals the historical environment within which Pacelli matured and developed his Roman perspectives on Germany and so helps explain his future "silence" as pope. The documents (memoranda, etc.) offer clarifying insights into the sometimes convoluted policies of the Vatican with respect to its position on anti-Semitism, racism, the negotiations surrounding the Concordat of 1933, and the relationship between politics and dogma, always a tense problematic within the Roman Catholic Church. This book also opens windows on the Vatican perception of German Episcopal reactions to Hitler's ideology and to such issues as the euthanasia policy. Wolf's groundwork will make future archival releases more comprehensible. -- D. J. Dietrich * Choice *[An] important book...In 2008, [Pope] Benedict [XVI] resuscitated a Good Friday prayer for the Jews, and last year he raised the cause of canonizing Pius XII to a higher stage. For many students of church history, such steps have been deeply troubling. Those hoping to form a judgment of Benedict's course should read Wolf's learned book and ask themselves whether the Pius they encounter in the memoranda salvaged from the Vatican's secret archives seems like a saint--with a charisma that speaks through the ages--or whether he appears as fallible as any of us, a man who sought wisdom but ultimately failed to see beyond the horizons of his own time. -- John Connelly * New Republic online *

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Book SynopsisWhat has Germany made of its Nazi past? This book explores the legacy of the Nazi regime, exposing the workings of past beliefs and political interests, and how differently the two Germanys have recalled the crimes of Nazism.Table of ContentsMultiple restorations and divided memory; German communism's master narratives of antifascism - Berlin-Moscow;East Berlin, 1928-1945; from periphery to centre - German communists and the Jewish question, Mexico City, 1942-1945; the Nuremberg interregnum - struggles for the recognition in East Berlin, 1945-1949; purging 'cosmopolitanism' - the Jewish question in East Germany, 1949-1956; memory and policy in East Germany from Ulbricht to Honecker; the Nuremberg interregnum - divided memory in the western zones, 1945-1963; atonement, restitution, and justice delayed - West Germany, 1949-1963; politics and memory since the 1960s.

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Book SynopsisWhy did ordinary Germans vote for Hitler? In this dramatically plotted book, organized around crucial turning points in 1914, 1918, and 1933, Peter Fritzsche explains why the Nazis were so popular and what was behind the political choice made by the German people.Trade ReviewPeter Fritzsche, in his Germans into Nazis, makes a…crucial point about public opinion in the 1930s and 1940s. He recalls—and this is something that foreigners living in Germany have always understood more readily than academics—that the popular appeal of Hitler’s movement lay much more in the hope and optimism it generated than in its various invitations to hate and to fear. -- Neal Ascherson * Los Angeles Times Book Review *The question still haunts: Why did Germans embrace Hitler? Dr. Fritzsche rejects the standard view that Germany welcomed Nazism because of the harsh strictures of the Treaty of Versailles, the economics hardships of the Depression or a long-standing hatred of Jews, and argues instead that Hitler’s ‘program’ articulated the aims and desires of the lower and middle classes. Perhaps the most unsettling view in this thoughtful book is that the German people saw Hitler and his plan as embodying their hopes for their future. And what would that triumph have produced? -- Lee Milazzo * Dallas Morning News *Historians examining nations over periods of time have somehow to find a balance between what is inherent in a people and what is not, in order to attempt explanations of national attitudes and conduct. This balance is not often found in the study of Germany during the fateful pre-Hitler period. The question is clear enough: Why did a civilized Central European power suddenly and swiftly descend into moral depths? …[A unified explanation] is unlikely to be found. But Peter Fritzsche has come up with new light on an old question. Instead of starting from 1918, he goes further back, and…looks at Germany as a nation undergoing redefinition, an animal changing out of all recognition… Fritzsche writes attractive, polished prose, and non-specialists should have no trouble in following his line of thought. -- Ralph Amelan * Jerusalem Post *Drawing on a wealth of documentation, including newspaper reports, historical analyses and studies of everyday life, Fritzsche gives a fascinating look at the rise of Nazism, the dynamics of populism and the power of ideology. -- Victoria Barnett * Christian Century *In this book Mr. Fritzsche gives us an original, new and extremely helpful way to understand how Nazi Germany came into being. This is one of the best books on Nazi Germany published in many a month. * Contemporary Review *Peter Fritzsche’s Germans into Nazis is an interpretive study of the rise of Nazism which uses the key events of four crisis periods—August 1914, November 1918, January 1933 and May 1933—to explain the success of the Nazis in their drive to gain and solidify their power by winning over the German people… This book is gracefully written, provides provocative challenges for more extensive reinterpretations, and is worthy reading for all students of Nazi Germany. -- Paul Bookbinder * English Historical Review *Fritzsche presents a well-informed argument that uniquely identifies a political process in the Nazis’ climb to power and not just the feeding of racial hatred or the failure of the Weimar Republic. -- Mary F. Salony * Library Journal *Well researched and succinct, this history offers a nuanced view of a complicated history. * Publishers Weekly *Fritzsche convincingly explains the rise of the Nazis as the success of populist nationalism—‘the culmination of a process of popular mobilization going back to 1914 and beyond’… This is a fascinating issue—what consciousness of being ‘German’ was and how it was shaped. A well-crafted, well-informed, well-written and convincing account. It should be accessible to its intended audience of general public and university students. -- Richard Bessel, The Open UniversityThe book’s strength lies in the vigor and colorfulness with which Fritzsche presents his ideas. He has style and class in his writing, and that should attract general readers as well as specialists. Fritzsche has a sharp eye, moreover, for vivid or illuminating details, and he uses them very effectively to weave his narrative… The book provides a combination of scholarly research and literary skill, a combination too rare in academic works. -- Theodore S. Hamerow, author of On the Road to the Wolf’s LairTable of ContentsIntroduction July 1914 November 1918 January 1933 May 1933 Notes Index

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Book SynopsisEarly in his career, Hitler took inspiration from Mussolini—this fact is widely known. But an equally important role model for Hitler has been neglected: Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, who inspired Hitler to remake Germany along nationalist, secular, totalitarian, and ethnically exclusive lines. Stefan Ihrig tells this compelling story.Trade ReviewA thorough and inspired account of how the formation of modern Turkey influenced Hitler and other Nazi ideologists by providing a model of armed resistance to the Versailles Treaty, as well as an imagined example of muscular nationalism for a new century. -- Steve Coll * New York Review of Books *For decades, historians have seen Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch of 1923 as emulating Mussolini’s 1922 March on Rome. Not so, says Stefan Ihrig in Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination. Hitler also had Turkey in mind… Atatürk’s subordination of Islam to the state anticipated Hitler’s strategy toward Christianity… Impeccably researched and clearly written…Ihrig’s book will transform our understanding of the Nazi policies. -- Dominic Green * Wall Street Journal *Middle Eastern heads of state have not tended to create exemplary leadership templates that aspirant rulers elsewhere have sought to emulate. But there is one notable exception: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. In Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination, Stefan Ihrig argues that the man who created modern Turkey inspired the tyrant who sought to make Germany the hub of a new National Socialist Europe: Adolf Hitler. His argument, based on extensive study of German print media in the 1920s and 30s, is compelling… Ihrig has unearthed an important subject within Second World War scholarship that, strangely, has remained overlooked for many decades. -- Gerald Butt * Times Literary Supplement *Fascinating… This is a gap-filling book that’ll be of deep interest to students of both World War II and National Socialism. -- Steve Donoghue * Open Letters Monthly *Stefan Ihrig’s brilliant new book Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination demonstrates convincingly that Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s conquest of Turkey was the most important model for the Nazis’ remaking of Germany, far more so than Mussolini’s 1922 March on Rome, which is usually cited as Hitler’s main inspiration. -- David Mikics * The Tablet *Ataturk in the Nazi Imagination by Stefan Ihrig…make[s] fascinating reading and highlight[s] the variety of ways in which the German state sought to subvert the Muslim soldiers’ professional loyalty to the Allied armies in the two wars… [Ihrig] must be lauded for [his] painstaking research in producing [this] highly readable [volume] that include[s] relevant photographs as well. -- Muhammad Ali Siddiqi * Dawn *It is Stefan Ihrig’s contention, in his fascinating Atatürk and the Nazi Imagination, that it was Atatürk who in many ways molded and inspired the Nazi enterprise. -- Mitchell Abidor * Jewish Currents *[An] insightful, instructive work, a genuinely original contribution to Nazi historiography… Makes us ponder, among so much else, the contribution that Ataturk’s capture and all-encompassing control of his nation and its people made to [Lenin’s, Stalin’s, Hitler’s, and Mussolini’s] evil works. -- Martin Rubin * Washington Times *Stefan Ihrig has written a valuable and important book. He has shed light on an overlooked, remarkable, and significant aspect of National Socialism: namely, the prominent role played by Turkey and Kemal Atatürk in the Nazi imagination. This is a notable accomplishment. -- Thomas A. Kohut * Weekly Standard *From the Armenian massacres to the Turkish War of Independence and the rise of Kemal Atatürk, Turkish events attracted deep interest in Germany. As Ihrig shows, politically active Germans of the Weimar Republic, especially on the far right, saw in Turkey a model for successful revisionism, authoritarian rule, secular modernization, and the political utility of genocide. This brilliant and original study sheds new light on the rise of Nazism and the prehistory of Nazi racial policy. -- Christopher Clark, University of CambridgeThis is a most important and refreshingly original book about a hitherto unknown yet pivotal influence on Adolf Hitler and other National Socialists. Its eye-opening conclusions will change how we think about German and European history as well as the Holocaust. -- Thomas Weber, University of AberdeenIn this richly documented and exhaustively researched study, Stefan Ihrig investigates the Nazi movement’s obsessive interest in modern Turkey and its leader, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Focusing on the image of Atatürk as a national savior and state-builder, Ihrig examines how fascinated the extreme Right and radical nationalists in Germany were with Atatürk’s Ankara government and its achievements in the interwar era. The resulting analysis carries some surprising findings for specialists of both German and Turkish history. Ihrig demonstrates that the Turkish nationalist movement, its leader, and his policies were much more influential for the Nazi worldview in the 1920s than many other potential examples, including Mussolini’s Italy…Those who look for European right-wing echoes of single-party-era Turkey’s policies will benefit from Ihrig’s most seminal finding, that in the development of the Nazi movement’s ideas, Atatürk’s Turkey acted as a role model…Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination is a bold and pathbreaking book. It draws attention to a largely overlooked connection between Nazi Germany and Kemalist Turkey, and contributes to the scholarship on the cross-fertilization of authoritarian nationalist ideas in the post-World War I years…Ihrig’s book is an insightful and highly original work. In the future, it will be difficult to discuss the transnational undercurrents of the radical Right in interwar Europe or German-Turkish relations under the Nazis without taking into consideration Ihrig’s arguments. -- Emre Sencer * H-Net Reviews *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A small book, but powerful all out of proportion to its size in exposing a shameful history."--Kirkus "Interesting and eye opening... In spite of the Nazis' disdain, to put it mildly, for our stated and evident liberal and democratic principles, they eagerly looked to the United States as the prime example for their own goals of protecting the blood, restricting citizenship, and banning mixed marriages. Reading this book could make many Americans doubt the possibility of ever forming a more perfect union with such a legacy."--Thomas McClung, New York Journal of Books "The admiration for American immigration policy expressed in Mein Kampf was not a passing thought on the day's news ... Nor a one-off remark. Its place in the full context of Nazi theory and practice comes into view in Hitler's American Model... Many people will take the very title as an affront. But it's the historical reality the book discloses that proves much harder to digest. The author does not seem prone to sensationalism. The argument is made in two succinct, cogent and copiously documented chapters, prefaced and followed with remarks that remain within the cooler temperatures of expressed opinion."--Scott McLemee, InsideHigherEd.com "Stunningly well-timed."--Tim Stanley, Daily Telegraph "[This] new history argues convincingly that institutionalized racism and common-law pragmatism in the United States inspired Hitler's policies... Historians have downplayed the connection between Nazi race law and America because America was mainly interested in denying full citizenship rights to blacks rather than Jews. But Whitman's adroit scholarly detective work has proved that in the mid-'30s Nazi jurists and politicians turned again and again to the way the United States had deprived African-Americans of the right to vote and to marry whites. They were fascinated by the way the United States had turned millions of people into second-class citizens."--David Mikics, Tablet Magazine "Whitman argues convincingly that American jurisprudence-federal and state alike-provided both inspiration and a model for the most radical Nazi lawyers."--Matthew Harwood, Reason "Hitler's American Model is overall, an erudite, well-researched, and thought-provoking study that raises important questions about America's laws - and leaders - in the not-so-distant past."--Rafael Medoff, Haaretz "In Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law, James Whitman ... makes a stunning and unsettling claim about the Nuremberg Laws."--Glen Altschuler, Jerusalem Post "Through intensive scrutiny of German language transcripts and other primary sources that he translated himself, Yale Law School professor James Whitman develops a story in Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law of unintended American inspiration for the infamous Nazi anti-Jewish laws. It's a story that will shock readers."--David Wecht, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Eerie... [Whitman] illustrates how German propagandists sought to normalize the Nazi agenda domestically by putting forth the United States as a model."--Brent Staples, New York Times "In his startling new history, Whitman traces the substantial influence of American race laws on the Third Reich. The book, in effect, is a portrait of the United States assembled from the admiring notes of Nazi lawmakers, who routinely referenced American policies in the design of their own racist regime... Whitman's book contributes to a growing recognition of American influences on Nazi thought."--Jeff Guo, Washington PostTable of ContentsA Note on Translations ix Introduction 1 1 Making Nazi Flags and Nazi Citizens 17 The First Nuremberg Law: Of New York Jews and Nazi Flags 19 The Second Nuremberg Law: Making Nazi Citizens 29 America: The Global Leader in Racist Immigration Law 34 American Second-Class Citizenship 37 The Nazis Pick Up the Thread 43 Toward the Citizenship Law: Nazi Politics in the Early 1930s 48 The Nazis Look to American Second-Class Citizenship 59 Conclusion 69 2 Protecting Nazi Blood and Nazi Honor 73 Toward the Blood Law: Battles in the Streets and the Ministries 81 Battles in the Streets: The Call for "Unambiguous Laws" 81 Battles in the Ministries: The Prussian Memorandum and the American Example 83 Conservative Juristic Resistance: Gurtner and Losener 87 The Meeting of June 5, 1934 93 The Sources of Nazi Knowledge of American Law 113 Evaluating American Influence 124 Defining "Mongrels": The One-Drop Rule and the Limits of American Influence 127 Conclusion 132 America through Nazi Eyes 132 America's Place in the Global History of Racism 137 Nazism and American Legal Culture 146 Acknowledgments 163 Notes 165 Suggestions for Further Reading 197 Index 201

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In Hitler’s Munich: Jews, the Revolution and the Rise of Nazism explores the great variety of roles played by Munich’s Jews in those years, putting to rest any simple characterization of pre-World War II German Jewry."---Robert Siegel, Moment"In his excellent new book, the noted German Jewish historian Michael Brenner explains and analyses how and why Munich became the bedrock of Nazism."---Colin Shindler, Jewish Chronicle"Michael Brenner. . . has written a book that tells the tragic story of the city and its Jews after World War I without fear or favor and, indeed, in this particular case, without either pride or shame."---Steven E. Aschheim, Jewish Review of Books"Brenner’s scholarship is rigorous and impressive. . . . [He] never lets us forget that these were people, not just figures in a historical text. . . . Although he did not intend or fore­see it when he began to write, it quick­ly became appar­ent to him that what he was describ­ing res­onat­ed uncom­fort­ably with the events of Jan­u­ary 6th, 2020 — the storm­ing of the Capi­tol in Wash­ing­ton. At every turn the read­er is remind­ed of the lessons of history."---Mark Welch, Jewish Book Council"Deep, important research by a master historian." * Kirkus Reviews *"Michael Brenner. . . provides important lessons which might help thwart the ongoing collapse of democracies across the world. . . . the book is a timely lesson on how it’s imperative to shake up people gullible enough to fall into the trap of manufactured lies and give their unequivocal allegiance to forces that silently work towards genocidal politics and the weakening of the fabric of constitutional democracy. As democracies are imperilled, Brenner’s relevant account of the anti-Semitic discourse that underpinned the early years of Hitler’s quest for power becomes a wake-up call."---Shelley Walia, The Hindu"Anyone who wants to understand the rise of the Nazis would do well to read Brenner's book."---Sabine Beppler-Spahl, Radicalism of Fools: Rethinking Anti-Semitism"An indispensable account of how, after the failed left-wing November Revolution of 1918–19 in Munich, the new conservative government of Germany promoted the lie that Jews were responsible for Germany's defeat in World War I and the rise of Bolshevism in Germany. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice Reviews *"Munich as the point of origin for the explosion of antisemitism in Germany in the early 1920s is the focus of In Hitler’s Munich. For Michael Brenner what mattered most was not the reprieve Jews experienced in 1923 but the failed revolution of 1918–1919 that put them at so much risk in the first place."---Christopher R. Browning, New York Review of Books

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Book SynopsisReferring to a situation in the Chicago suburb of Skokie, which was home to many survivors of the Holocaust in the 1970s, and where American Nazi sympathizers wished to demonstrate, the author of this book argues that freedom of speech must be defended even in the most abhorrent of circumstances.Trade ReviewA meticulous and graceful narrative of one of the most gripping free speech conflicts of modern times." —Rodney A. Smolla, author of Free Speech in an Open Society"Strum succeeds brilliantly in telling the two stories of Skokie-the constitutional struggle over free speech and the human agony and conflict that permeated it. In clear, rigorous, and vivid prose, she recreates the legal and political culture when the case arose in the 1970s and then shows how more recent intellectual theories bear on what happened. A simply wonderful book." —Norman Dorsen, Stokes Professor, NYU, and president, ACLU, 1976-1991"Strum paints a remarkably complete picture of the entire Skokie controversy and helps put the debate over the First Amendment protection for 'hate speech' into meaningful perspective." —David Goldberger, Ohio State University College of Law professor and former ACLU attorney for Frank Collin and the National Socialist Party of America"A book that students will read eagerly and that teachers will find a pleasure to use." —Melvin I. Urofsky, author of Affirmative Action on Trial: Sex Discrimination in Johnson v. Santa Clara

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Book SynopsisA bold thesis arguing that fascism is not the main enemy today - but a dangerous alliance of new political formations on the right Far-Right in Britain, the US and France.To understand why is the first step to stopping them. A terrifying issue that is being hotly debated across the world from a highly respected theorist of fascism.Trade Review'The best available account of today's far right and how we can stop it' -- Elane Heffernan, Anti-Nazi League, 1992-2003 'Renton is a stalwart of the anti-racist movement and his book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the changing nature of the right' -- Sasha Das Gupta, organiser, Momentum 'At a time when the international far right is ascendant Renton deftly explains the long terms factors behind its rise, lays out the true nature of the threat and importantly, offers some suggestions for what might be done to fight back' -- Joe Mulhall, Hope not Hate 'David Renton's new book is greatly to be welcomed for its forensic attempt to identify what is genuinely new about 'the new authoritarians' and, more importantly, his argument that the left cannot oppose them successfully by simply repeating strategies that were developed under different conditions' -- Neil Davidson, editor, 'The Longue Duree of the Far Right' 'Renton's book is a superior guide for understanding - and combatting - right and far-right movements across the globe today' -- Bill Mullen, Campus Anti-Fascist Network 'A essential intervention that helps us understand the political shifts taking place on the right, and points a way for the left to halt an unfolding disaster' -- Dan Trilling, author of 'Bloody Nasty People: The Rise of Britain's Far Right'Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. When Right-Wing Parties Change 2. Brexit and the Prospect of Convergence 3. Remaking the G.O.P. 4. Breaking the Centre: National Rally and its Rivals 5. The Internationalism of the Far Right 6. Benefits and Trade 7. Could the Far Right Change Back? Conclusion: Stopping the Right

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Book SynopsisThe classic text on the history and theory of fascism, revised for the twentieth anniversary of its first publicationTrade Review'David Renton's thoughtful and open-minded study shines a light on this often misunderstood political current and contains vital lessons for anti-fascists today' -- Daniel Trilling, author of 'Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe''An invaluable book showing us again why and how Marxists have been the best interpreters and fighters against fascism. Renton's updates make this even more urgent reading for taking on the return of fascist ideas in our time' -- Bill V. Mullen, author of 'James Baldwin: Living in Fire''This book is so much more than a historical survey because Renton’s detailed description of the development, growth and successful establishment of pre-war fascist regimes chimes worryingly with contemporary times' -- Morning Star'Fascism: History and Theory not only remains a thorough account of interwar Marxism’s understanding of fascism, but also provides a strong argument for a vital understanding of fascism, both in analysis and as practice' -- ROAR'A nuanced and intelligent discussion of what constitutes fascism' -- CounterpunchTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Anti-Fascist Wager 1. Interwar Fascism 2. An Alternative Method 3. Marxists against Mussolini and Hitler 4. Benjamin, Gramsci, Trotsky 5. Beyond 1933 6. Marxists and the Holocaust Conclusion: A Specific Form of Reactionary Mass Movement Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe demand for free speech on campus is a distraction, we need to follow the moneyTrade Review‘This deeply researched and urgent book reads like a detective mystery. A riveting self-defence manual for all who fear for the future of our country and our planet' -- Nancy MacLean, author of ‘Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America’‘Universities regularly conduct important discussions of free speech. And then there is the largely imaginary ‘campus free speech crisis’. This book is a detailed and valuable guide to the shadowy right-wing financial networks irresponsibly stoking the latter to the growing detriment of the former’ -- Hank Reichman, Professor Emeritus of History, California State University, East Bay‘An essential analysis of the amped-up culture wars over free speech’ -- ‘Times Higher Education’‘An insightful dive into the ways higher education has been impacted—indeed, manipulated—by conservatives. Read it and fight back’ -- Eleanor J. Bader, ‘The Progressive’'Deeply researched and well-argued' -- ‘Inside Higher Education’Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Overview of the Koch’s Campus Free Speech Machine 1. The Donor Strategy 2. The Student Groups 3. The Provocateurs 4. The Media Amplifiers 5. The Lawyers 6. Changing the Laws 7. The Academics 8. The Free Speech International Conclusion: Refusing the Plutocratic Free Speech Narrative Appendix 1: Koch Network Payments to Organizations Mentioned in the Text Appendix 2: Resources for Activists Notes Index

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Book SynopsisBetween 1925 and 1945 thousands of ordinary Germans of both sexes and all ages wrote letters to Hitler. Lost for decades, a large cache of these letters was recently discovered in the KGB Special Archive in Moscow, having been carted off to Russia by the Soviet Secret Police at the end of the war. The letters range from gushing love letters - 'I love you so much. Write to me, please,' this from a seven-year old girl named Gina - to letters from teachers, students, priests, businessmen and others expressing gratitude for alleviating poverty or restoring dignity to the German people. There are a few protest letters and the occasional desperate plea to release a loved one from a concentration camp, but the overwhelming majority are positive and even rapturous, shedding fresh light on the nature of the Hitler cult in Nazi Germany. This volume is the first publication of these letters in English. It comprises a selection of the letters and includes a contextualizing commentary that exTrade Review"A valuable addition to the available sources. There is also a lot here for the general reader: the letters are often surprising in tone and content, and sometimes funny."Literary Review"A historic gem ... Eberle's work is an interesting but chilling case study on how a seemingly educated and mature society can be manipulated to the point of blind fanaticism."Morning Star"Sheds a whole new light on life under the Nazis."Daily Express"An excellent example of the increased drive to portray history from the ordinary, everyday people - if that's what Hitler's followers could be called."Review 31"A history of the Third Reich at its most personal and individual; from the fawning letters of sycophants to desperate pleas for clemency from both active opponents and innocents swept up in terror ... an excellent book."The Australian"The letters have, like something from a Hans Fallada novel, the stamp of grimy, gritty truth."The Age"Gripping evidence on the relationship between Hitler and some ordinary Germans."Australian Journal of Politics and History"A unique and captivating view of one nation's devotion to its dictator."Deseret News"This collection of letters to Hitler from ordinary Germans is full of fascinating and sometimes disturbing testimonies to the charismatic power of the Nazi dictator. It adds notably to our knowledge of the German people's attitudes towards the Third Reich and its policies."Richard J Evans, University of Cambridge "This collection of letters to Hitler provides unique and fascinating insights into the social-psychological climate of the times. Here published for the first time in English, the long-lost letters from ordinary citizens read like voices from the past. Perhaps most strikingly they reveal loyalties to and support for a dictator and a regime we are still struggling to understand."Robert Gellately, author of Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi GermanyTable of ContentsIntroduction by Victoria Harris PART ONE: The ‘Time of Struggle': 1924-1932 1. Hitler and the Nazi Party 2. Veneration and Advice 3. Wishes for the New Year 4. Rage and Hope PART TWO: Worship, Protest and Consent: 1933-1938 1. Recognition, Gratitude, and Veneration 2. Private Petitions and Political Requests 3. Dissent 4. Expressions of Loyalty 5. The Highpoint of Hitler's Popularity PART THREE: Crisis and War: 1938-1945 1. Jubilation and Concern 2. The Calm Before the Storm 3. At War 4. The End Suggestions for further reading

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Book SynopsisWhat attracts women to far-right movements that appear to denigrate their rights? This question has vexed feminist scholars for decades and has led to many lively debates in the academy. In this context, during the 1980s, the study of women, gender, and fascism in twentieth-century Europe took off, pioneered by historians such as Claudia Koonz and Victoria de Grazia.

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Book SynopsisThe Ustasha regime and its militias carried out a ruthless campaign of ethnic cleansing that killed an estimated half million Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies, and ended only with the defeat of the Axis powers in World War II. In Visions of Annihilation, Rory Yeomans analyses the Ustasha movement’s use of culture to appeal to radical nationalist sentiments and legitimize its genocidal policies.

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Book SynopsisInterpreting the Nazi era using the basic diagnostic tools provided by the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, Judaeo-Christian culture, and contemporary German-language writers, this book provides an alternative approach to the topic of the individual German's entanglement with the Hitler regime.Trade Review[In Hitler and the Germans] the reader feels the academic hall come to life with Voegelin's eloquence and the profundity of his mind. Voegelin speaks with passion and deadly irony....Hitler and the Germans is not simply a scholarly historical analysis of an extremely unpleasant event. Voegelin writes as a philosophic German to philosophic Germans, because he takes them seriously....[He] has brilliantly illuminated the depths and meaning of that ideology and tyranny for our abiding benefit in thought and action. - Perspectives on Political Science

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Book SynopsisFeatures essays that brings together contributions by internationally recognised scholars from Britain, Germany and the USA to present and reflect upon the research on the history of the Third Reich. This book provides a fresh approach to the history of Nazism's racial policy, its social policy, its planning for war and genocide, and its legacy.Trade ReviewNazism, War and Genocide will be essential reading for students of the period. Richard Evans, BBC History * BBC History *Taken together, the essays presented in this collection do a splendid job of summarising and criticising the state of our knowledge of the field they cover. All are further characterised by a very accessible style and great readability... this book is an ideal way for undergraduates, graduate students, lay people or specialists in other fields to quickly learn the essentials of our current knowledge of some of the central issues surrounding the history of the Third Reich. Bruce B. Campbell, H-German * H-German *Table of Contents Introduction to the paperback edition List of common German abbreviations used in the text 1 Neil Gregor Nazism-A Political Religion? Rethinking the Voluntarist Turn 2 Jane Caplan Political Detention and the Origin of the Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany, 1933-1935/6 3 Dick Geary Working-Class Identities in the Third Reich 4 Robert Gellately Social Outsiders and the Consolidation of Hitler's Dictatorship, 1933-1939 5 Nikolaus Wachsmann 'Soldiers of the Home Front': Jurists and Legal Terror during the Second World War 6 Jill Stephenson Germans, Slavs and the Burden of Work in Rural Southern Germany during the Second World War 7 Ian Kershaw Did Hitler Miss his Chance in 1940? 8 Mark Roseman Shoot First and Ask Questions Afterwards? Wannsee and the Unfolding of the Final Solution 9 Norbert Frei Auschwitz and the Germans: History, Knowledge and Memory Notes List of Contributors Suggestions for further reading Index

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Book SynopsisA Deep Exploration of the Rise, Reign, and Legacy of the Third Reich For its brief existence, National Socialist Germany was one of the most destructive regimes in the history of humankind. Since that time, scholarly debate about its causes has volleyed continuously between the effects of political and military decisions, pathological development, or modernity gone awry. Was terror the defining force of rule, or was popular consent critical to sustaining the movement? Were the German people sympathetic to Nazi ideology, or were they radicalized by social manipulation and powerful propaganda? Was the Final Solution the motivation for the Third Reich's rise to power, or simply the outcome? A Companion to Nazi Germany addresses these crucial questions with historical insight from the Nazi Party's emergence in the 1920s through its postwar repercussions. From the theory and context that gave rise to the movement, through its structural, cultural, economic, and social impacts, to the era's Trade Review“Overall this is a rich and stimulating essay companion, well worth dipping into as an introduction to state-of-the-art scholarship, and with a remarkable amount to offer for university teachers and students taking modules on this period.”Reviewer: Matthew Stibbe, Sheffield Hallam University, UKEuropean History Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 1Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Introduction 1Shelley Baranowski, Armin Nolzen, and Claus‐Christian W. Szejnmann Part I Theories, Background, and Contexts 15 1 How Do We Explain the Rise of Nazism? Theory and Historiography 17Geoff Eley 2 Organic Modernity: National Socialism as Alternative Modernism 33Konrad H. Jarausch 3 The First World War and National Socialism 47Benjamin Ziemann 4 The Collapse of the Weimar Parliamentary System 63Shelley Baranowski 5 National Socialist Ideology 77Claus‐Christian W. Szejnmann Part II Structures of Nazi Rule 95 6 The NSDAP After 1933: Members, Positions, Technologies, Interactions 97Armin Nolzen 7 Work(ers) Under the Swastika 115Jens‐Uwe Guettel 8 Resistance 129Detlef Schmiechen‐Ackermann 9 Centre and Periphery 147Thomas Schaarschmidt 10 Information Policies and Linguistic Violence 163Thomas Pegelow Kaplan 11 Education, Schooling, and Camps 181Kiran Klaus Patel 12 Research and Scholarship 199Michael Gruttner 13 Nazi Morality 215Thomas Kuhne 14 The German Home Front Under the Bombs 231Richard Overy 15 Total Defeat: War, Society, and Violence in the Last Year of National Socialism 247Sven Keller Part III Economy and Culture 263 16 The Nazi Economy 265Stephen G. Gross 17 National Socialism and German Business 281Kim Christian Priemel 18 Individual Consumers and Consumption in Nazi Germany 299Pamela E. Swett 19 Gender 315Elizabeth Harvey 20 Religion 333Manfred Gailus 21 Family and Private Life 351Lisa Pine 22 Sports 367Frank Becker 23 Cinema, Art, and Music 385Daniel Muhlenfeld 24 Emotions and National Socialism 399Alexandra Przyrembel 25 Environment 413Charles E. Closmann Part IV Race, Imperialism, and Genocide 429 26 Terror 431Dieter Pohl 27 Flight and Exile 449Deborah Dwork 28 Germany and the Outside World 465Lars Ludicke 29 Social Militarization and Preparation for War, 1933–1939 483Jorg Echternkamp 30 Race 499Isabel Heinemann 31 Unfree and Forced Labour 517Marc Buggeln 32 ‘Ethnic Germans’ 533Alexa Stiller 33 Ghettos 551Andrea Low 34 Holocaust Studies: The Spatial Turn 565Wendy Lower Part V Legacies of Nazism 581 35 Memories of Nazi Germany in the Federal Republic of Germany 583Aleida Assmann 36 Remembering National Socialism in the German Democratic Republic 599David Clarke 37 Presenting and Teaching the Past 615Karl Heinrich Pohl and Astrid Schwabe Index 631

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Book SynopsisFascism, Architecture, and the Claiming of Modern Milan, 1922–1943 chronicles the dramatic architectural and urban transformation of Milan during the nearly twenty years of fascist rule. The commercial and financial centre of Italy and the birthplace of fascism, Milan played a central role in constructing fascism’s national image and identity as it advanced from a revolutionary movement to an established state power.Using a wide range of archival sources, Lucy M. Maulsby analyses the public buildings, from the relatively modest party headquarters to the grandiose Palace of Justice and the Palazzo del Popolo d’Italia, through which Mussolini intended to enhance the city’s image and solidify fascism’s presence in Milan. Maulsby establishes the extent to which Milan’s economic structure, social composition, and cultural orientation affected Il Duce’s plans for the city, demonstrating the inflTrade Review"Thorough, rich, and compelling, Architecture, Fascism, and the Claiming of Modern Milan lifts the discussion about architecture under fascism from the narrow confines of the public polemics of architects and carries it into the far more complex and nuanced world of politics." -- Diane Ghirardo School of Architecture, University of Southern California 'This is an interesting and well documented book...It will be of great interest to historians of architecture, fascism, urban Italy and Milan, as well as to the general reader.' -- John Foot Annali d'Italianistica Vol 33:2015Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. Milan in Context 2. Respectable Fascism: Fascist Party Headquarters, 1922-1931 3. The Commercial City: The Trading Exchange and Piazza degli Affari, 1928-1939 4. Fascist Authority: The Palace of Justice, 1932-1940 5. Urban Networks: Fascist Party Headquarters, 1931-1940 6. Museum, Monument, and Memorial: The Palazzo del Popolo d'Italia, 1938-1942 Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSpanish Fascist Writing presents the first collection of Spanish fascist texts in English translation and offers an intellectual and political history of fascist writing in Spain, a history that resituates the country within the larger unfolding of right-wing extremism worldwide from the early twentieth century to the present. The manifestos, newspaper articles, essays, letters, and pieces of prose fiction gathered in this volume demonstrate why the Spanish case proves essential to a comprehensive understanding of fascism in general. These Spanish fascist texts also highlight the need for comparative analysis in order to better grasp the transnational character of fascism, fascism’s profound roots in colonialism, fascism’s multiple temporalities, and the rise in recent years of right-wing extremism throughout the world. In short, Spanish Fascist Writing takes Spain from the margins to the forefront of fascist studies. Trade Review"Spanish Fascist Writing is a timely collection of texts, including manifestos, speeches, and letters, arranged to introduce readers to a wide spectrum of themes. Together these texts enrich our understanding of right-wing extremism in Spain and worldwide in the past and present. The collection also adds to our interpretation of the historical genealogies of European fascism. Justin Crumbaugh and Nil Santiáñez, as editors of the anthology, provide a useful history of Spanish fascism, a bibliographic essay, and notes, all of which add to the book’s value as a teaching resource. As translators, with María Soledad Barbón, they are aware of the rhetoric of this particular manifestation of fascism and thus are careful to convey the nuances and stylistic idiosyncrasies of every text." -- MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature CommitteeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Translators’ Note General Introduction Justin Crumbaugh and Nil Santiáñez Spanish Fascist Writing: A Brief History A Bibliographic Essay This Anthology Section One: Manifestos and Political Programs On Italy’s Essence: A Letter to a Comrade from the Young Spain Ernesto Giménez Caballero Our Political Manifesto La Conquista del Estado Our Slogans – Armed Mobilization La Conquista del Estado Castile’s Mission Onésimo Redondo Castile, Save Spain! Onésimo Redondo The Future of Our People: National Syndicalism José María de Areilza Founding Speech of Falange Española José Antonio Primo de Rivera Initial Points Falange Española The Programmatic Points of Falange Española de las JONS Falange Española de las JONS Unity of Destiny Anonymous The Social Revolution of National Syndicalism José Luis de Arrese On Spanish Catholicity Eugenio Montes Joint Manifesto of Spain on the Move La España en Marcha Section Two: Nation and Empire Genius of Spain Ernesto Giménez Caballero In Defense of Hispanidad Ramiro de Maeztu The Spanish Empire Antonio Tovar Trajectory and Future Prospects of Our Territorial Expansion José María Cordero Torres A National Objective Manuel Fraga Iribarne Section Three: The New Man and the New Woman The Individual Is Dead Ramiro Ledesma Ramos Habit and Style Anonymous Guidelines Anonymous Femininity and the Falange José Antonio Primo de Rivera Eugenio, or, The Proclamation of Spring Rafael García Serrano The Faith and Conduct of Women Pilar Primo de Rivera Women and the Education of Children Mercedes Sanz Bachiller Blue Shirt: A Portrait of a Falangist Felipe Ximénez de Sandoval Mission and Organization of the S.F. (Sección Femenina) Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las JONS Section Four: Violence and War The African Campaign: A Welcome to the Soldiers of Garellano Rafael Sánchez Mazas The Legionary Creed José Millán-Astray Moroccan Notes of a Soldier Ernesto Giménez Caballero Behind the Caesar’s Eagle Luys Santa Marina Young Spaniards! A Call to Arms! Ramiro Ledesma Ramos The Monopoly of Violence Onésimo Redondo Justification of Violence Onésimo Redondo Violence and Justice José Antonio Primo de Rivera The Conquest of the State Anonymous Russia Notebooks Dionisio Ridruejo Section Five: Culture, Aesthetics, and Poetics Art and State Ernesto Giménez Caballero Beautiful Architecture of the Ruins Agustín de Foxá Texts on a Politics of Art Rafael Sánchez Mazas General Proposal for City Planning in Madrid Pedro Bidagor Inauguration of the Valley of the Fallen Francisco Franco Index

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Book SynopsisBuilding on extensive archival research and important scholarly analysis, Galeazzo Ciano: The Fascist Pretender examines the life of Galeazzo Ciano, foreign minister of fascist Italy from 1936 to 1943 and Benito Mussolini’s son-in-law. Ciano’s life serves as a lens through which to gain a better understanding of crucial issues of Italian and European fascism, including the fascistization of society and politics, foreign relations, and the problem of succession. The biography follows an innovative thematic structure that focuses on major aspects of Ciano’s life, including his family, his political career, his diplomacy, and his desire to succeed Mussolini. Filling a substantial gap in the existing literature on the history of fascism, this book is the first comprehensive analysis of a key player of Italian fascism other than Mussolini; it also offers a long overdue critical assessment of Ciano’s famous diary, one of the most important texts fTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Family The Son of a Hero The Ciano Family in Livorno Ciano’s Friends The Fascist Family Shaping Italian Society 2. The Politician The Minister The Fascist The Elite The Catholic and Monarchist The Fascist Oligarchy 3. The Diplomat Italy’s Role in the World Diplomacy and Performance Parallel and Secret Diplomacy Blackmail, Terror, and War Assessing Fascist Italy’s Foreign Diplomacy 4. The Successor The Deputy Duce Fascist Masculinities: Ciano versus Mussolini The Undecided One The “Good Fascist” Succession and Struggle in Fascism Epilogue: A Man of His Time Appendix Chronology Abbreviations Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSpanish Fascist Writing presents the first collection of Spanish fascist texts in English translation and offers an intellectual and political history of fascist writing in Spain, a history that resituates the country within the larger unfolding of right-wing extremism worldwide from the early twentieth century to the present. The manifestos, newspaper articles, essays, letters, and pieces of prose fiction gathered in this volume demonstrate why the Spanish case proves essential to a comprehensive understanding of fascism in general. These Spanish fascist texts also highlight the need for comparative analysis in order to better grasp the transnational character of fascism, fascism’s profound roots in colonialism, fascism’s multiple temporalities, and the rise in recent years of right-wing extremism throughout the world. In short, Spanish Fascist Writing takes Spain from the margins to the forefront of fascist studies. Trade Review"Spanish Fascist Writing is a timely collection of texts, including manifestos, speeches, and letters, arranged to introduce readers to a wide spectrum of themes. Together these texts enrich our understanding of right-wing extremism in Spain and worldwide in the past and present. The collection also adds to our interpretation of the historical genealogies of European fascism. Justin Crumbaugh and Nil Santiáñez, as editors of the anthology, provide a useful history of Spanish fascism, a bibliographic essay, and notes, all of which add to the book’s value as a teaching resource. As translators, with María Soledad Barbón, they are aware of the rhetoric of this particular manifestation of fascism and thus are careful to convey the nuances and stylistic idiosyncrasies of every text." -- MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature CommitteeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Translators’ Note General Introduction Justin Crumbaugh and Nil Santiáñez Spanish Fascist Writing: A Brief History A Bibliographic Essay This Anthology Section One: Manifestos and Political Programs On Italy’s Essence: A Letter to a Comrade from the Young Spain Ernesto Giménez Caballero Our Political Manifesto La Conquista del Estado Our Slogans – Armed Mobilization La Conquista del Estado Castile’s Mission Onésimo Redondo Castile, Save Spain! Onésimo Redondo The Future of Our People: National Syndicalism José María de Areilza Founding Speech of Falange Española José Antonio Primo de Rivera Initial Points Falange Española The Programmatic Points of Falange Española de las JONS Falange Española de las JONS Unity of Destiny Anonymous The Social Revolution of National Syndicalism José Luis de Arrese On Spanish Catholicity Eugenio Montes Joint Manifesto of Spain on the Move La España en Marcha Section Two: Nation and Empire Genius of Spain Ernesto Giménez Caballero In Defense of Hispanidad Ramiro de Maeztu The Spanish Empire Antonio Tovar Trajectory and Future Prospects of Our Territorial Expansion José María Cordero Torres A National Objective Manuel Fraga Iribarne Section Three: The New Man and the New Woman The Individual Is Dead Ramiro Ledesma Ramos Habit and Style Anonymous Guidelines Anonymous Femininity and the Falange José Antonio Primo de Rivera Eugenio, or, The Proclamation of Spring Rafael García Serrano The Faith and Conduct of Women Pilar Primo de Rivera Women and the Education of Children Mercedes Sanz Bachiller Blue Shirt: A Portrait of a Falangist Felipe Ximénez de Sandoval Mission and Organization of the S.F. (Sección Femenina) Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las JONS Section Four: Violence and War The African Campaign: A Welcome to the Soldiers of Garellano Rafael Sánchez Mazas The Legionary Creed José Millán-Astray Moroccan Notes of a Soldier Ernesto Giménez Caballero Behind the Caesar’s Eagle Luys Santa Marina Young Spaniards! A Call to Arms! Ramiro Ledesma Ramos The Monopoly of Violence Onésimo Redondo Justification of Violence Onésimo Redondo Violence and Justice José Antonio Primo de Rivera The Conquest of the State Anonymous Russia Notebooks Dionisio Ridruejo Section Five: Culture, Aesthetics, and Poetics Art and State Ernesto Giménez Caballero Beautiful Architecture of the Ruins Agustín de Foxá Texts on a Politics of Art Rafael Sánchez Mazas General Proposal for City Planning in Madrid Pedro Bidagor Inauguration of the Valley of the Fallen Francisco Franco Index

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Book SynopsisMillions passionately desire a viable alternative to austerity and neoliberalism, but they are sceptical of traditional leftist top-down state solutions. In this urgent polemic, Hilary Wainwright argues that this requires a new politics for the left that comes from the bottom up, based on participatory democracy and the everyday knowledge and creativity of each individual. Political leadership should be about facilitation and partnership, not expert domination or paternalistic rule. Wainwright uses lessons from recent movements and experiments to build a radical future vision that will be an inspiration for activists and radicals everywhere.Trade Review"Hilary Wainwright has been at the centre of social movement politics stretching back to the exciting days of the GLC. Her book is a significant contribution to the vital transformation of the Labour Party into a social movement once again."—John McDonnell MP, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer "A New Politics from the Left presents a thorough, convincing and inspiring programme for progressive politics in Britain today."—Jeremy Gilbert, University of East London "In succinct, eloquent prose, A New Politics from the Left encompasses all that Hilary Wainwright has learned from her efforts to connect the buoyant creativity of grass roots politics with the coalitions necessary to build genuinely democratic societies."—Lynne Segal, Birkbeck College "This book is reminder of why Hilary Wainwright is one of contemporary British socialism's most perceptive and thoughtful writers.... We live in exciting and hopeful times and this book goes some way to explaining why."—Morning StarTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Chapter 1: A New Politics of Knowledge Chapter 2: The New Politics in Practice Chapter 3: From Cells to Transitions Chapter 4: Conclusions: on Questions of Political Strategy and Organisation Further reading and resources

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Book SynopsisMillions passionately desire a viable alternative to austerity and neoliberalism, but they are sceptical of traditional leftist top-down state solutions. In this urgent polemic, Hilary Wainwright argues that this requires a new politics for the left that comes from the bottom up, based on participatory democracy and the everyday knowledge and creativity of each individual. Political leadership should be about facilitation and partnership, not expert domination or paternalistic rule. Wainwright uses lessons from recent movements and experiments to build a radical future vision that will be an inspiration for activists and radicals everywhere.Trade Review"Hilary Wainwright has been at the centre of social movement politics stretching back to the exciting days of the GLC. Her book is a significant contribution to the vital transformation of the Labour Party into a social movement once again."—John McDonnell MP, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer "A New Politics from the Left presents a thorough, convincing and inspiring programme for progressive politics in Britain today."—Jeremy Gilbert, University of East London "In succinct, eloquent prose, A New Politics from the Left encompasses all that Hilary Wainwright has learned from her efforts to connect the buoyant creativity of grass roots politics with the coalitions necessary to build genuinely democratic societies."—Lynne Segal, Birkbeck College "This book is reminder of why Hilary Wainwright is one of contemporary British socialism's most perceptive and thoughtful writers.... We live in exciting and hopeful times and this book goes some way to explaining why."—Morning StarTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Chapter 1: A New Politics of Knowledge Chapter 2: The New Politics in Practice Chapter 3: From Cells to Transitions Chapter 4: Conclusions: on Questions of Political Strategy and Organisation Further reading and resources

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Book SynopsisThe world faces a climate crisis and an ascendant far right. Are these trends related? How does the far right think about the environment, and what openings does the coming crisis present for them? This incisive new book traces the long history of far-right environmentalism and explores how it is adapting to the contemporary world. It argues that the extreme right, after years of denying the reality of climate change, are now showing serious signs of reversing their strategy. A new generation of far-right activists has realized that impending environmental catastrophe represents their best chance yet for a return to relevance. In reality, however, their noxious blend of conspiracy, hatred and violence is no solution at all: it is the ‘eco-socialism of fools’. Only a real commitment to climate justice can save us and stop the far right in its tracks. No-one interested in the struggle against right-wing extremism and the crusade for climate justice can afford to miss this trenchant critique of burgeoning ecofascism.Trade Review“An urgent and comprehensive survey of the risks generated by the nature politics of today's far right – and how to fight them.”Paul Mason, author of How to Stop Fascism “Since the attacks in Christchurch and El Paso in 2019, public discussion of ecofascism has become more urgent than ever. This book adds substantially to our understanding of a challenging subject through critical examination of rapidly evolving environmental politics on the far right.”Peter Staudenmaier, co-author of Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience “Essential reading for anyone concerned with politics in a warming world.”Andreas Malm, co-author of White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism“The book ranges widely […], from individual terrorists and the fringes of the internet to main stream political parties.”Adam Weymouth, Resurgence & Ecologist“a captivating and important read.”International AffairsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. A History of Far-Right Ecologism 2. The far right and nature now 3. Online far-right ecologism and far-right movements 4. Deadly Ecofascist Violence 5. Towards Ecofascism Proper? Notes

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