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Tag: German History

0 Politics History

Voters elected Hitler because they liked his fascist promise. Trump's reelection repeats that history

Peter Fritzsche in Forward · 12 Nov

Peter Fritzsche, a history professor at the University of Illinois, examines the 2024 U.S. presidential election through a historical lens, drawing parallels between Donald Trump's electoral appeal and Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany.

0 Art Holocaust

Dr. Richard Simms — An Art Collector Like No Other

Forward · 8 Jul 2020

Dr. Richard Simms, an African American dentist, became a prominent art collector specializing in the works of Käthe Kollwitz after an encounter with one of her prints in 1965.

0 Holocaust History

How the Nazis Imagined a World Without Jews

Tel Aviv Review · 28 Sep 2018

Professor Alon Confino explores the Nazi goal of erasing Jews from not just the present and future, but also from the past.

0 Israel Politics

Weimar in Jerusalem: Is Israel on a slippery slope to fascism?

Tel Aviv Review · 12 Feb 2016

Prof. Moshe Zimmermann from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem explores the parallels between the fragile German democracy of the 1930s and contemporary Israel, questioning if Israel is heading towards fascism.

0 Holocaust Antisemitism

Why the Germans?

Gavriel D. Rosenfeld in Jewish Review of Books · 9 Dec 2014

Götz Aly's book "Why the Germans?" delves into the historical roots of German anti-Semitism leading to the Holocaust.

0 Antisemitism Philosophy

National Socialism, World Jewry, and the History of Being: Heidegger’s Black Notebooks

Richard Wolin in Jewish Review of Books · 15 Jun 2014

Martin Heidegger's recently published Black Notebooks reveal his deep entanglement with National Socialism, anti-Semitism, and belief in the superiority of the German Volk throughout the 1930s and 1940s, shedding light on his controversial political views.