How important was anti-Semitism to the Nazi regime before 1939? Had the regime started on the ‘twisted road to Auschwitz’ before 1939? Anti-Semitism was always vitally important to the Nazi regime, although that importance could be muted in public at times. Certainly it was a core philosophical underpinning of the Nazi movement, and while the …
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The Interwar Crisis: Politics
The rise of the NSDAP to power is often seen as inexplicable, but placed in the context of interwar Europe as a whole, is the ascension to power of a radical, nationalist and anti-Semitic party more easily understood? This is a topic I’ve been thinking a lot about lately, so I thought I’d write about …
Talking Nazis With the Dissident Peasant
Yesterday, I did a show with leftie podcaster Dissident Peasant (whom you should support — really). Unlike my last interview, this one is priced affordably (it’s free). Click and enjoy. Actual Brownshirts With ThamesDarwin https://t.co/821ADBvxUf via @JeffHisDudeness — Thames Darwin (@thamesdarwin) May 31, 2018 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
Paul Craig Roberts Crosses the Line
Simulblogged at Holocaust Controversies If you’ve never heard of Paul Craig Roberts, don’t feel bad. As a public figure, he seems to have hit his high water mark during the Reagan Adminstration as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, where he stridently defended supply-side economic policy. Since 2001, he has been a rather loud voice …
What I’ve Been Reading
In my last post, I noted how I’d set about to reading Eric Cline’s 1177 B.C. Ah, but the best laid plans of mice and men and all that. I stopped a couple of chapters in to pick up Hans-Ulrich Wehler’s The German Empire: 1871-1918. Wehler takes a very straight line approach from Bismarck to …
Inevitable Historicity 