Fascism

To what extent did Christians support Hitler, and for what reasons?

David Welch looks at the dramatisation of Führerprinzip in the Nazi cinema, and how history films were used to propagate themes of anti-parliamentarianism and the concept of an individual leader of genius.

David Williamson examines two seemingly irreconcilable schools of thought.

F.G. Stapleton defends the record of Italian governments from 1861 to 1914.

Richard Overy argues that the lesson Hitler Drew from 1914-18 was not that a major war should be avoided, but that Germany should prepare more systematically so that, next time, she would win.

Martin Evans discusses how the historian Robert Paxton shifted the terms of debate over the collective memory of Vichy France.

John Claydon charts a course across the complex minefield of Nazi historiography.

The strange story of the death and posthumous life of Italy's Fascist dictator, and the continuing power of the cult of his body over the Italian imagination.

Alfio Bernabei discovers evidence of a plot to kill the Italian dictator in the early 1930s.

It is often said that the 'ifs of history' are fascinating but fruitless. Here, Rob Stradling shows that a counter-factual consideration of what might have happened allows us new insights into the significance of what did happen.