and the Permanent Prometheus.” In Shaping the Superman: Fascist Body as Political Icon – Aryan Fascism. London: Frank Cass Publishers. 12. No more hysteria, no more projective paranoia, properly speaking, but this state of terror proper to the
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Acid Fascism
Nostalgia, Psychedelia, and Radical Right Masculinity
Jac Lewis
In Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2024
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 81–99 (19 total)
Fascism at eye level
The anthropological conundrum
Douglas R. Holmes
, a trajectory I had not fully anticipated. Now we can give this activism a name: fascism. As I will argue, it is fascism with distinctive contemporary features that are not fully or necessarily congruent with its historical manifestation
Fascism as a style of life
Community life and violence in a neofascist movement in Italy
Maddalena Gretel Cammelli
consensus on one single definition of fascism, scholars do largely agree that this legacy did not end in April 1945. Roger Griffin suggests that “fascism continues to inspire” present-day movements (1991: xii) and, moreover, that fascism is presently
"The Facts Behind the Guilt"? Background and Implicit Intentions in 'Downfall'
Jurgen Pelzer
The film Downfall, released in 2004 at the height of an unprecedented "Hitler wave," has to be seen in a long tradition of literary and cinematic attempts to deal with Germany's "unmasterable past." The filmmakers claimed that by focusing on Hitler's final days before the end of WWII they had discovered "new territory" and presented the "facts behind the guilt." This article points out, however, that the film is historiographically based on the account by Joachim Fest's book Downfall-in which the author, as in his earlier work, follows a methodological approach that personalizes history and focuses on Hitler as "singular personality," rejecting any systematic analysis of political and social context. The film goes even further in its unscrupulous blurring of fact and fiction and simplistically juxtaposes a very small group of perpetrators (basically Hitler and Goebbels) and the large group of victims, i.e., the general population that only wanted to survive. Such an attempt to focus on a tragically failing, isolates Hitler, who alone is to blame for nation's "Downfall" is hardly suitable to help Germans to step out of the shadow of their past.
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2007
- Article Type:
- Discussion
- Pages:
- 90–101 (11 total)
Facing Hitler: German Responses to 'Downfall'
John Bendix
Bernd Eichinger's Der Untergang is the first all-German production in fifty years to feature Hitler in a full-length dramatic film. This article explores the choices and intentions of the producer/scriptwriter, aspects of German public opinion about Hitler, and the critical responses to what was widely seen as an effort to humanize Hitler on screen-though I argue it was ultimately more an effort to finally lay Hitler to rest.
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Mar 2007
- Article Type:
- Discussion
- Pages:
- 70–89 (19 total)
"Subaltern Nationalism" and the West Berlin Anti-Authoritarians
Jennifer Ruth Hosek
The West Berlin anti-authoritarians around Rudi Dutschke employed a notion of subaltern nationalism inspired by independence struggles in the global South and particularly by post 1959 Cuba to legitimate their loosely understood plans to recreate West Berlin as a revolutionary island. Responding to Che Guevara's call for many Vietnams, they imagined this Northern metropolis as a Focus spreading socialism of the third way throughout Europe, a conception that united their local and global aims. In focusing on their interpretation of societal changes and structures in Cuba, the anti-authoritarians deemphasized these plans' potential for violence. As a study of West German leftists in transnational context, this article suggests the limitations of confining analyses of their projects within national or Northern paradigms. As a study of the influence of the global South on the North in a non-(post)colonial situation, it suggests that such influence is greater than has heretofore been understood.
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2008
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 57–81 (24 total)
Interwar Fascism and the Franchise
Women's Suffrage and the Ligues
Daniella Sarnoff
This article addresses the fascist leagues' policies and philosophies regarding the political role of women, particularly the question of female suffrage. Unlike the parliamentary Right, which did not attempt to mobilize women until 1935, the fascist leagues envisioned women as key political players as early as 1924. Often invoking female work and sacrifice during the war, as well as women's supposedly superior moral aptitude, the leagues presented themselves as the forces that truly respected women's potential and importance in the state. To the leagues the domestic identities and concerns of women were not only compatible with fascist notions of politics, but rendered women potentially better fascists and citizens. Leaders of the organizations expected women to be wives and mothers, producing more children for France, while at the same time the leagues advocated that women engage in national politics and world affairs.
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2008
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 112–133 (22 total)
A Forgotten Murder, a Neglected French Fascism
Joel Blatt
Gayle K. Brunelle and Annette Finley-Croswhite, Murder in the Metro: Laetitia Toureaux and the Cagoule in 1930s France (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010).
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2013
- Article Type:
- Review Article
- Pages:
- 96–104 (9 total)
The Forty-Fivers: A Generation Between Fascism and Democracy
A.D. Moses
In 1999, Germans celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Federal Republic. Unlike the fiftieth anniversary of other events in the recent national past—the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, the anti-Jewish pogrom of November 1938, and the unconditional surrender in 1945—this is not an awkward occasion for the country’s elites. On the contrary, the Federal Republic is indisputably Germany’s most successful state, and its record of stability and prosperity compares favorably with that of two prominent neighbors, France and Italy. This anniversary gives us pause to pose the basic questions about West Germany. How was it possible to construct an enduring democracy for a population that, exceptions notwithstanding, had enthusiastically supported Hitler and waged world war to the bitter end?
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 1999
- Article Type:
- Review Article
- Pages:
- 94–126 (32 total)
Death in June and the Apoliteic Specter of Neofolk in Germany
Mirko M. Hall
as “hipster-fascism.” 6 Drawing largely upon the scholarly work of Anton Shekhovtsov, Marcus Stiglegger, Peter Webb, and Maciej Zurowski, I investigate the band’s critical reception in Germany by undertaking a select rhetorical reading of interviews
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 60–79 (20 total)