Tag: fascism
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Quotation: Alex Ross on the United States that let Thomas Mann in and then later drove him away.
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Poster for Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here” in play form, presented in New York City by the WPA Federal Theater.
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Quotation about the “insidious destruction of our democracy by a bureaucratic samurai with the soothing voice of a boys’ school headmaster.”
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Political cartoon of “Emperor Mussolini” on the cover of Simplicissimus in 1926. The caption reads, “I’ve decided to accept God, but he has to become Italian.” The German here for “accept,” “gelten lassen,” could also be translated as “allow.”
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Link: One of many historians of Nazi Germany weighing in on the significance of Trump’s inauguration
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YouTube Video: U.S. War Department film showing a young man nearly sucked in by racism and xenophobia until a Hungarian American narrator uses recent history to talk him out of it.
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Quotation by Christopher Browning on Trump taking office.
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Quotation: Adam Gopnik on the man who became president a few months later.
