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America's Recruitment of Nazis -- Then and Now
Any bastard, so long as he's anti-communist
Bohne, Luciana
Article
2014
CounterPunch
The most prominent feature of the Nazi political philosophy was extreme anticommunism and particularly fanatic hatred of the USSR. That hatred set the world ablaze, and, yet, after the war, the Nazi a...
A contemporary account of the German pogroms of November 1938
Zimmerman, Elizabeth
Article
2014
World Socialist Web site
Shortly after the November 1938 pogroms, journalist and historian Konrad Heiden wrote a work entitled Night Oath, in which he gave a detailed account of the horrific events marking the transition from...
Einsatzgruppen
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Einsatzgruppen (German: "task forces"; singular Einsatzgruppe) were SS paramilitary death squads that were responsible for mass killings, typically by shooting, of Jews in particular, but also signifi...
Fanning the flames of intolerance
The burning of books -- an ultimate form of control and condemnation
Henley, John
Article
2010
The Guardian
A historical overview of book burnings by political and religious regimes.
February strike (The Netherlands)
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A general strike organized during World War II in The Netherlands against the anti-Jewish measures and activities by the Nazis.
Ford & the Nazi War Efforts
Henry Ford was no Oskar Schindler
Karliner, Joshua
Article
1998
CorpWatch
The Ford Motor Company's commercial-free sponsorship of NBC's airing of Schindler's List, the epic movie about the Holocaust, was a class act. Nevertheless, it would be remiss of us here at CorpWatch,...
German resistance
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The opposition by individuals and groups in Nazi Germany to the regime of Adolf Hitler between 1933 and 1945.
Heidegger and National Socialism
New Contributions to an Old Debate - Reviewed by Robin Celikates
Celikates, Robin
Article
2006
Hitler Youth
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The Hitler Youth (German: Hitler-Jugend, abbreviated HJ) was a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party. Made up of the Hitlerjugend proper, for male youth ages 14 to 18; the younger boys' section ...
How to Grow Up Under Occupation
A Childhood Under the Nazi's
Rochat, Gui
Article
2012
CounterPunch
Rochat illustrates the effect adult wars and occupations have on children, and how the relative safety of the Anglo-Saxon world make it hard to comprehend what effect these wars have on children in pl...
Judenrat
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Judenräte (singular Judenrat; German for "Jewish council") were administrative bodies during the Second World War that the Germans required Jews to form in the German occupied territory of Poland, an...
Kidnapping of children by Nazi Germany
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Kidnapping of non-Germanic European children by Nazi Germany (Polish: Rabunek dzieci), part of the Generalplan Ost (GPO), involved taking children from the rest of Europe and moving them to Nazi Germa...
A Marxist History of the World part 83: 1933: The Nazi seizure of power
Faulkner, Neil
Article
2012
Counterfire
By the early 1930s, the German ruling class was determined to use the Nazis to make the world safe for German capital. But the fascist victory was not inevitable – it resulted from the failure of thos...
A Marxist History of the World part 87: The Causes of the Second World War
Faulkner, Neil
Article
2012
Counterfire
As Hitler sought to expand Germany's sphere of influence in Europe, Britain's policy of appeasement reflected the interests of the British ruling classes – until German power became overwhelming.
A Marxist History of the World part 88: The Second World War
Faulkner, Neil
Article
2012
Counterfire
With the great powers fighting to defend their empires, the Second World War would re-divide the world between competing blocs of capitalists.
A Marxist History of the World part 89: 1941-1945: barbarism in a world gone mad
Faulkner, Neil
Article
2012
Counterfire
The Second World War was characterised by primeval savagery. Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia and Militarist Japan waged war with unprecedented brutality, but the ‘democracies’ also committed terrible w...
Master race
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Nacht und Nebel
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Nacht und Nebel (German for "Night and Fog") was a directive (German: Erlass) of Adolf Hitler on 7 December 1941 signed and implemented by Armed Forces High Command Chief Wilhelm Keitel, resulting in ...
National Socialism
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National Socialism is the name used for political ideologies which purpose to merge nationalism and socialism. It was realised once in the form of Nazism by the Nazi Party in Germany.
National Socialist Factory Cell Organization
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The Nationalsozialistische Betriebszellenorganisation (National Socialist Factory Cell Organization) was a workers organization in Nazi Germany.
National Socialist Program
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The National Socialist Program (aka the 25-point Program and the 25-point Plan), was first the political formulation of the Austrian National Socialist Party (DNSAP — Deutsche Nationalsozialistische...
Nazi concentration camps
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Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps (in German Konzentrationslager, or KZ) throughout the territories it controlled. The first Nazi concentration camps were greatly expanded in Germany after t...
Nazi Germany
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Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, is the common name for the country of Germany while governed by Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) from 1933 to 1945. Third Reich (...
Nazi Party
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The National Socialist German Workers' Party commonly known in English as the Nazi Party, was a political party in Germany between 1919 and 1945. It was known as the German Workers' Party (DAP) prior...
Nazi propaganda
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Propaganda, the coordinated attempt to influence public opinion through the use of media, was skillfully used by the Nazi Party in the years leading up to and during Adolf Hitler's leadership of Germa...
A Nazi Skeleton in the Family Closet
Tsukanova, Arina
Article
2017
Strategic Culture
Chrystia Freeland's dark family secret is that her grandfather, Mykhailo Chomiak, faithfully served Nazi Germany right up to its surrender, and Chomiak's family only moved to Canada after the Third Re...
Night of the Long Knives
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The Night of the Long Knives or "Operation Hummingbird", or, more commonly used in Germany "Röhm-Putsch" was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany between June 30 and July 2, 1934, when the Nazi re...
Nuremberg Laws
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The Nuremberg Laws or Nürnberg Laws of 1935 were antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany introduced at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party. After the takeover of power in 1933 by Hitler, Nazism bec...
Nuremberg Trials
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The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the main victorious Allied forces of World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, a...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 9, 2017
Meeting the Challenge of the Right
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2017
Connexions
Challenging the Right requires not only anti-fascist actions in the street, but organizing to reach those who may be attracted the the appeal of the Right and offering an alternative social vision. Th...
Quisling, Vidkun
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Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling (July 18, 1887- October 24, 1945) was a Norwegian army officer and politician, who served as President of occupied Norway. Today in Norway and other parts of t...
Racial policy of Nazi Germany
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The racial policy of Nazi Germany was a set of policies and laws implemented by Nazi Germany, asserting the superiority of the "Aryan race", and based on a specific racist doctrine which claimed scien...
Resistance during World War II
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Riefenstahl, Leni
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Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl; 22 August 1902 - 8 September 2003) was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her most famo...
Strasserism
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Strasserism refers to the strand of Nazism and neo-Nazism that called for a more radical, mass-action and worker-based form of National Socialism, particularly hostile to finance capitalism from an an...
Strength Through Joy
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Kraft durch Freude (Strength through Joy, KdF) was a large state-controlled leisure organization in Nazi Germany. It was a part of the German Labour Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront, DAF), the national Ge...
Swastika
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The swastika is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles, in either right-facing form or its mirrored left-facing form.
Wannsee Conference
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The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior officials of the Nazi German regime, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. The purpose of the conference was to inform administrative ...

Sources Bookshelf

Hitler's Propaganda Machine
Rutherford, Ward
Book
1978
The Holocaust
The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945
Yahail, Leni
Book
1990
An comprehensive history of Hitler's war on the Jews of Europe.
Press for Conversion #54
August 2004
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2004
The Bush family's links to fascism.
The Secret of Hitler's Victory
Petroff, Peter; Petroff, Irma
Book
1934
In this book, the Petroffs set out to answer the question that has perplexed so many onlookers in other countries: How did it come about that the apparently mighty forces of the German Left fell in on...


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