Nazism

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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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• SOURCE: Times of Israel
  8/17/2021
  

  New Documentary Asks Why Obsession with Hitler Endures

  "Why take 90 minutes to warn everyone yet again about Hitler, they wonder, when every mention of him only seems to do more harm than good?"

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/3/2021
  

  New Book of Family History Recreates the Anti-Nazi Resistance in Germany

  Rebecca Donner, great-great-neice of Mildred Harnack, an American-born woman executed in 1943 for anti-Nazi activity in Germany, has written a book of family history that also shows the melting away of German delusions about Hitler's intentions and power. 

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• 8/1/2021
  

  "Without Pressure from Germany": Hungary's Revisionist History of the Deportation of 18,000 Jews

  by Karl Pfeifer

  The Hungarian government has sought to deny and obscure its responsibility for the deportation of Jews beginning in 1941. 

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• 6/6/2021
  

  Two Films Show the Historical Toll and Present Danger of Ethnic Violence

  by Walter G. Moss

  Two films show the dire consequences of ethnic antagonism during and after the second world war, and the potential for ideology to incite and justify violence.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/2/2021
  

  Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ Gets New French Edition, With Each Lie Annotated

  The publishers, who will donate proceeds to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, argue that with other versions of Hitler's manifesto circulating widely, a translation that preserves the incoherence and paranoia of the original with extensive debunking commentary is a positive contribution to efforts to fight the far right. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/3/2021
  

  Germany Faced its Horrible Past. Can the US Do the Same?

  by Michele Norris

  "A full accounting of slavery is one of terror and trauma, and for decades the natural inclination was to ask, why would anyone want to claim that history?... What happens if we don’t?" Michele Norris's essay features University of Texas historian Daina Ramey Berry.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  5/10/2021
  

  Gaming The System: KU Professor Says 'Call Of Duty' Can Help Teach History

  Historians should recognize that many of their students are exposed to views of the past informed by video games and explore how to build on that interest while correcting errors, says University of Kansas historian Andrew Denning. 

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• SOURCE: HistoryExtra
  5/11/2021
  

  The Night of the Long Knives: The Bloody Purge that Secured Hitler’s Power

  Hitler's 1934 purge of his perceived rival Ernst Röhm and his followers suspected of disloyalty foreshadowed the eliminationist violence of his regime. 

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• 4/25/2021
  

  Whither Germany? Historiography and Public Reckoning with the National Past

  by Samuel Miner

  Hedwig Richter's book "Democracy: A German Affair" has sparked controversy for its rejection of the idea that Germany has followed a "special path" to liberal democracy and catalyzed a broad debate about the role of historians in public reckoning with the crimes of the past. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  4/18/2021
  

  My Grandfather Fled the Nazis. I Moved to His Old Neighborhood

  by Laura Moser

  The writer reflects on the meaning of her journey as an American Jew to first claim German citizenship and then move to the town her grandfather had fled. 

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• SOURCE: Public Seminar
  4/8/2021
  

  Why Weimar is an Imperfect Mirror

  by Helmut Smith

  Peter Gay's "Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider" became a key text for understanding the Weimar era as an allegory for understanding political conflict when it was published in 1968. But his psychoanalytical approach can be an impediment to understanding the historical specificity of the era. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  3/29/2021
  

  The Other Nuremberg Trials, Seventy-Five Years On

  by Erica X. Eisen

  The defense of capitalism during the Cold War meant that businesses and businessmen who collaborated in war crimes went unpunished. 

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• SOURCE: Stat
  3/16/2021
  

  Nazi Anatomical Drawings are Donated in Effort to Address Ethical Quandary — and Spotlight a Dark History

  The Pernkopf Atlas of anatomy was an unmatched documenting of the nervous and circulatory system. But it was created by Nazi doctors and partly based on the examination of the bodies of people executed by Nazis. A long effort to resolve the ethical dilemma inherent in its use has resulted in the donation of the illustrations to the Medical University of Vienna. 

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• 3/21/2021
  

  Review – The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive by Philippe Sands

  by James Thornton Harris

  The life of Otto Wachter, the SS officer indicted for the murder of 400,000 Jews in Ukraine, complicates the "banality of evil" idea. Philippe Sands shows him as both a bureaucrat and a cruel ideologue, as well as a man sufficiently aware of his guilt to go on the run. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/8/2021
  

  Of Nazis, Crimes and Punishment

  Understanding the neurological changes brought on by adolescence and aging make it complicated to determine what justice is in the case of a Nazi camp guard deported from the United States to Germany in February. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  2/20/2021
  

  US Deports 95-Year-Old Former Concentration Camp Guard To Germany

  Friedrich Karl Berger, a German citizen, was sent back to Germany this month for serving as a guard of a Neuengamme concentration camp subcamp near Hamburg in 1945.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/5/2021
  

  Woman, 95, Indicted on 10,000 Counts of Accessory to Murder in Nazi Camp

  "Public prosecutors in Germany have indicted a 95-year-old woman for her role supporting the Nazi killing machinery as a secretary in a concentration camp, charging her with 10,000 counts of being an accessory to murder, and complicity in attempted murders."