Nationwide parliamentary elections are scheduled for September 2026. The rise of the extreme right in Europe is especially alarming in Germany, where the historical consequences of Fascism are brutally clear.
Prohibition Gets Started (in 1919), Slave Owners Get Nervous (1834), Swing Comes to the Opera House (1944), Repression Takes Practice (1934), Nazis Make a Reality of Wage Slavery (1934), Wilmington Occupation Ends (1969), Voting Rights Victory (1964)
The daughter of the German communist killed by the Nazis discusses her legacy in the modern fight against the far right.
Stereotypes about German history and about the German Democratic Republic distort history. Simplifications of the past inhibit our ability to understand the nature of fascism and anti-fascism, to understand the complexities of socialism.
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