Nazism

...in Italy in 1922 - 11 years before Hitler himself would become Chancellor of Germany and subject his country to the horrors of Nazism. Hitler felt a deep kinship with Mussolini and, at that point, considered him a close political...

In this article: Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Otto Skorzeny, Josef Stalin, Munich, and Italy

Between 1949 and 1987, Mao Tsetung and his successors were responsible for the deaths of 76 million Chinese. Kors asks why the horrors of Nazism are so well known and widely condemned but not those of socialism and communism. For decades...

In this article: Alan Kors, Mao Tsetung, Socialism, Joseph Stalin, E mail, Limited government, Communism, and World War II

...received from Hitler at the 1938 Munich conference - he called the German leader a "softy" - and attacked Pope Pius XI for his criticism of Nazism and Fascism. On a more intimate note, Mussolini was explicit about his sexual appetites for...

In this article: Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Pope Pius XI, Munich, Italy, Fascism, and Nationalism

...received from Hitler at the 1938 Munich conference -- he called the German leader a "softy" -- and attacked Pope Pius XI for his criticism of Nazism and Fascism. The diaries kept by Claretta Petacci, Mussolini's mistress, between 1932 and...

In this article: Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Fascism, Pope Pius XI, Munich, and Rome

...Muslims in the Middle East. Herf uses thousands of pages of verbatim English translations of the Nazi broadcasts to build his portrait of how the Nazis appealed to Muslim tradition. They didn't invent Muslim anti-Semitism, but they focused it...

In this article: Family resemblance, Ideology, Yale University Press, Yale, and Middle East

...does this enigmatic chronicle really clarify later history? To say that The White Ribbon offers an explanatory account of the origins of Nazism would surely be reductive. It's up to us to decide what the film is about, or what speculative...

In this article: Michael Haneke, The White Ribbon, Bourgeoisie, Malaise, and Ulrich Tukur

...and human rights champion, which proclaimed that ''Europe will not be united unless it is able to reunite its history, recognise communism and Nazism as a common legacy. Different valuations of the communist past may still split Europe aEUR¦...

In this article: Europe, Warsaw, Communism, EU, Eastern Europe, and Poland

...some truly scary moments. When I got home today, I saw TPM reporting that Eric Cantor has come out against Rush Limbaugh's Nazi rhetoric. I was surprised. When I asked him about it several weeks ago, Cantor (and John Boehner, and...

In this article: Eric Cantor, Wall Street, Dog, and Michele Bachmann

...Third Reich in the Ivory Tower. Many of the richest and oldest colleges and universities in the United States showed less understanding of Nazism than newspaper columnists like Heywood Broun (who, to be fair, also attended Harvard, where he...

In this article: Harvard, James Conant, Nicholas Murray Butler, Nazi Party, Barnard College, Heywood Broun, and All rights reserved

...homosexuals, POWs, Jehovah's Witnesses, the Roma, the disabled/mentally ill and other groups. Even today, Nazism, whether in the form of Neo-Nazis or Holocaust deniers, remains a destructive ideology embraced by ignorant people bent on...

In this article: Adolf Hitler, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, Ideology, Liberalism, Capitalism, and World War II