Britain’s Titled Fascists
The British countryside of the 1930s was a happy hunting ground for the British Union of Fascists, where recruits sometimes came with titles and estates.
Fascism
‘Weimar’ by Katja Hoyer review
Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer explores the city – and citizens – at the heart of Germany’s ill-fated republic, and the Reich that replaced it.
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review
Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich by Richard Evans asks what manner of men made themselves the Führer’s ‘paladins’.
‘Bystander Society’ by Mary Fulbrook review
Mary Fulbrook’s Bystander Society: Conformity and Complicity in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust holds the ambivalent accountable.
‘Edda Mussolini’ by Caroline Moorehead review
Edda Mussolini: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe by Caroline Moorehead explores how Italy became enslaved by ‘a corrupt gang of warmongers’.
Shut Up and Eat!
Does silence endure in Italy over Mussolini’s murderous regime?
A Century of Fascism
Fascism would plague the 20th century, but when Benito Mussolini seized power in October 1922 few could agree on exactly what it was.
Gutter Press
Why did newspapers maintain a policy of isolationism in the midst of a world embroiled in war?
The Far Right in France
Since the late 19th century, French politics has provided a testing ground for right-wing populism.
What is a Concentration Camp?
‘Concentration camps’ are difficult to define. Even the survivors of the most notorious and universally recognised camps in history discovered this problem in the aftermath of the Second World War.