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  1. The Age of Permanent Revolution
    A Trotsky Anthology

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1964
    A collection of writings by Leon Trotsky.
  2. Aktion T4
    Wikipedia article

    Resource Type: Article
    Aktion T4 was a postwar name for mass murder through involuntary euthanasia in Nazi Germany.
  3. America's Recruitment of Nazis -- Then and Now
    Any bastard, so long as he's anti-communist

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The most prominent feature of the Nazi political philosophy was extreme anticommunism and particularly fanatic hatred of the USSR. That hatred set the world ablaze, and, yet, after the war, the Nazi administrators, chief intelligence officers, generals, police chiefs, and intellectuals of that regime of hatred and war were recruited to continue their work in the bosom of our secret National Security State, advising, influencing, and promoting our foreign policy in the Cold War. Did that policy change with the fall of the Berlin Wall? No, it intensified -- still absolutist, still aggressive, still dedicated to political warfare. Russia is still in our crosshairs.
  4. The Approaching Storm
    One Woman's Story of Germany 1934-1938

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Nora Waln, a Quaker journalist, chronicles her experience living in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich. During those four years, she took covert notes, bearing witness to the rise of Hitler.
  5. The Ballad of Rivka and Mohammad
    A song for Gaza

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
  6. Beating the fascists? The German Communists and political violence 1929-1933
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Eve Rosenhaft examines the involvement of Communist Party militants in political violence against Nazis during the years of Hitler's rise to power in Germany (1929-33). Specifically, she aims to account for their participation in 'street-fighting' or 'gang-fighting' with National Socialist storm-troopers.
  7. Behemoth
    The Structure and Practice of National Socialism 1933-1944

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1966
    A study of the structure of German Nazism.
  8. Behind Enemy Lines
    WWII Allied/Axis Propaganda

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  9. Beyond Judgment
    Resource Type: Article
  10. Break Their Haughty Power
    Resource Type: Website
    Articles on capitalism, socialism, and revolution, from a left-Marxist perspective.
  11. Burned Child Seeks the Fire
    A Memoir

    Resource Type: Book
  12. A contemporary account of the German pogroms of November 1938
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Shortly after the November 1938 pogroms, journalist and historian Konrad Heiden wrote a work entitled Night Oath, in which he gave a detailed account of the horrific events marking the transition from social discrimination to the systematic brutalization and persecution of Jews in Germany.
  13. Could Punching Nazis Have Prevented Hitler From Taking Power
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    There have been repeated references to how Nazism could have been stopped by street-fighting, with almost no attention paid to the concrete socio-political conditions of Germany between 1920 and 1933. For many of those who think that physical force was the key to stopping Nazism, the viral video of Richard Spencer getting punched in the face was far more important as a guide to action than understanding the tragic history of the German left.
  14. Diary of Bergen-Belsen
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    Hanna Lévy-Hass, a Yugoslavian Jew, emerged a defiant survivor of the Holocaust. Her observations, recorded in her own incomparable voice, shed new light on the lived experience of Nazi internment. Lévy-Hass stands alone as the only resistance fighter to report on her own experience inside the camps, and she does so with unflinching clarity in dealing with the political and social divisions inside Bergen-Belsen.
  15. Die kalte Amnestie
    NS-Täter in der Bundesrepublik

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
  16. Eichmann in Jerusalem
    A report on the banality of evil

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
    Hannah Arendt's report on the trial of Adolph Eichmann.
  17. Die Ersten Funfzig Jahre des XX. Jahrhunderts II
    Eine Schau in Bild und Wort in drei Banden

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1950
    Der zweite Band enthalt folgende Kapitel: Weimarer Republik; Das Dritte Reich; ...die Folgen; Der Mensch in unserer Zeit; Zauberreich des Films; Symphonie des Sports.
  18. Die Ersten Funfzig Jahre des XX. Jahrhunderts III
    Eine Schau in Bild und Wort in drei Banden

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1950
    Der dritte Band enthalt folgende Kapitel: Bildende Kunst; Literarische Halbzeit; Musik in funf Dezennien; Das Auto: Gefahrt des XX. Jahrhunderts; Briefmarken in funf Jahrzehnten; Die "kleinen Kriege" unseres Jahrhunderts; Kampf fur den Friende; Der Vatikan; Erster Weltkrieg 1914-1918; Zweiter Weldkrieg 1939-1945; Kophe der Nachkriegzeit; Personen-Bild-Register.
  19. Escape from Freedom
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
  20. Fanning the flames of intolerance
    The burning of books -- an ultimate form of control and condemnation

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    A historical overview of book burnings by political and religious regimes.
  21. Fascism and Big Busness
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    A history of the rise of fascism in Europe and the role of big business in supporting fascism.
  22. February strike (The Netherlands)
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A general strike organized during World War II in The Netherlands against the anti-Jewish measures and activities by the Nazis.
  23. Flaunting It!
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    An anthology of articles spanning the first decade of the Canadian gay liberation periodical, The Body Politic.
  24. For a Workers' United Front Against Fascism
    What's Wrong With the Current Policy of the German Communist Party?

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1932
    Germany is now passing through one of those great historic hours upon which the fate of the German people, the fate of Europe, and in significant measure the fate of all humanity, will depend for decades. If you place a ball on top of a pyramid, the slightest impact can cause it to roll down either to the left or to the right. That is the situation approaching with every hour in Germany today. There are forces which would like the bail to roll down towards the right and break the back of the working class. There are forces which would like the ball to remain at the top. That is a utopia. The ball cannot remain at the top of the pyramid. The Communists want the ball to roll down toward the left and break the back of capitalism. But it is not enough to want; one must know how.
  25. Ford & the Nazi War Efforts
    Henry Ford was no Oskar Schindler

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1998
    The Ford Motor Company's commercial-free sponsorship of NBC's airing of Schindler's List, the epic movie about the Holocaust, was a class act. Nevertheless, it would be remiss of us here at CorpWatch, not to point out Ford's contribution to Nazi war efforts.
  26. The Freeland-Chomiak Connection: "It takes a village to raise a Nazi"
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Sanders uncovers Chrystia Freeland's, the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, own personal and professional connection with fascist groups and publications.
  27. Freispruch für die Nazi-Justiz
    Die Urteile gegen NS-Richter seit 1948. Eine Dokumentation.

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
  28. From Hitler to MX: Media Softness on Nazi Zundel Part of Historic Softness on Nazism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1985
  29. Gedenkstatte Deutscher Widerstand
    Exhbition Resistance to National Socialsim

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    A thorough and chronological account of the many forms of resistance to Nazism in Germany.
  30. The German Memorial Resistance Center
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    Booklet to accompany the display on the German resistance.
  31. German resistance
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    The opposition by individuals and groups in Nazi Germany to the regime of Adolf Hitler between 1933 and 1945.
  32. Gestapo
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
  33. Goebbels
    Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century War Leader Book No. 17

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    A short illustrated biography of Josef Goebbels.
  34. Göring, Matthias Heinrich
    Wikipedia articvle

    Resource Type: Article
    Matthias Heinrich Göring (* 5. April 1879 in Düsseldorf; † 24. oder 25. Juli 1945 in Posen) war ein deutscher Arzt, Psychotherapeut und nationalsozialistischer Funktionär. Matthias Heinrich Göring, ein Vetter Hermann Görings, war Vorsitzender der "Deutschen Allgemeinen Ärztlichen Gesellschaft für Psychotherapie" und Leiter des 1936 gegründeten Deutschen Instituts für psychologische Forschung und Psychotherapie.
  35. Heidegger: L'introduction du nazisme dans la philosophie
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    Faye argues that all of Heidegger's thinking was permeated by National Socialism.
  36. Heidegger and National Socialism
    New Contributions to an Old Debate - Reviewed by Robin Celikates

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
  37. Heidegger And Nazism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Posits Martin Heidegger's as an influential Nazi philosopher, a manipulative thinker of great intelligence whose touchstones were anti-humanism and contempt for democracy.
  38. The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945
    Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    A thorough portrayal of the plans, hesitations, frustrations, and failures of the opposition to Hitler.
  39. Hitler
    Resource Type: Book
  40. Hitler Youth: The Duped Generation
    Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century Politics in Action No. 6

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  41. Hitler's Impresario
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
    On Josef Goebbels, the Nazi Minister for Propaganda and Enlightenment.
  42. Hitler's Propaganda Machine
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
  43. The Holocaust
    The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    An comprehensive history of Hitler's war on the Jews of Europe.
  44. The Holocaust Chronicle
    A History in Words and Pictures

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    A chronological account of the genocide of European Jews at the hands of the Nazis.
  45. How to Grow Up Under Occupation
    A Childhood Under the Nazi's

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Rochat illustrates the effect adult wars and occupations have on children, and how the relative safety of the Anglo-Saxon world make it hard to comprehend what effect these wars have on children in places such as Iraq, Afghanistan and so many other countries under attack.
  46. I Will Bear Witness
    A Diary of the Nazi Years 1933-1941

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    These diaries, written in secrecy, provide a vivid account of everyday life in Hitler's Germany. Although he was baptized a Protestant, Klemperer was still considered a Jew by the regime and saw his freedom slowly taken away.
  47. IBM and the Holocaust
    The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    Nazi Germany employed IBM Hollerith punch-card machines to perform critical tasks in carrying out the Holocaust and the German war effort, cranking out lists of Jews which were then turned over to the SS for deportation and eventual extermination.
  48. The Illustrated History of the Third Reich
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
  49. In London treffen wir uns wieder
    Vier Spaziergänge durch eine vergessenes Kapitel deutscher Kulturgeschichte

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
  50. Inside Nazi Germany
    Conformity, Opposition and Racism in Everyday Life

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    The author describes what people's daily lives were like during the Nazi regime.
  51. Inside the Third Reich
    Memoirs by Albert Speer

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  52. Intelligenzaktion
    Wikipedia article

    Resource Type: Article
    The Intelligenzaktion, or Intelligentsia mass shootings, was a, not always secret, mass murder conducted by Nazi Germany against the Polish intelligentsia (teachers, priests, physicians, et al.) early in the Second World War (1939-45). The operations were conducted to realise the Germanization of the western regions of occupied Poland, before territorial annexation to the German Reich. The mass murder operations of Intelligenzaktion killed 100,000 Polish people; by way of forced disappearance, the Nazis imprisoned and killed selected citizens of Polish society, identified before the war as enemies of the Reich; they were buried in mass graves at remote places.
  53. Kidnapping of children by Nazi Germany
    Wikipedia article

    Resource Type: Article
    Kidnapping of non-Germanic European children by Nazi Germany (Polish: Rabunek dzieci), part of the Generalplan Ost (GPO), involved taking children from the rest of Europe and moving them to Nazi Germany for the purpose of Germanization, or indoctrination into becoming culturally German. At more than 200,000 victims, occupied Poland had the largest proportion of children taken. An estimated 400,000 children were abducted throughout Europe.
  54. Kleine Rassenkunde des deutschen Volkes
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1934
  55. Let's Make Sure the Nazis Killed in Vain
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    I don't know how many times I've heard that if we don't stand by Israel, the victims of the Nazi Judeocide will have died in vain. I knew something was wrong with that claim, but for the longest time I couldn't put my finger on it. Now I think I can.
  56. The Life of Death: An Exchange
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1985
    The really great form of courage and honesty that could be witnessed under the conditions of the Holocaust was when a Pole opposed the opinion or the silence of other Poles, when a Jew opposed other Jews, and when Germans opposed other Germans or Nazism in general. This is the type of courage which we should learn about and emulate.
  57. Luxembourgian general strike 1942
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A pacific resistance movement organised within a short time period to protest against a directive that incorporated the Luxembourg youth into the Wehrmacht.
  58. A Marxist History of the World part 83: 1933: The Nazi seizure of power
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    By the early 1930s, the German ruling class was determined to use the Nazis to make the world safe for German capital. But the fascist victory was not inevitable – it resulted from the failure of those who opposed fascism.
  59. A Marxist History of the World part 87: The Causes of the Second World War
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    As Hitler sought to expand Germany's sphere of influence in Europe, Britain's policy of appeasement reflected the interests of the British ruling classes – until German power became overwhelming.
  60. A Marxist History of the World part 88: The Second World War
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    With the great powers fighting to defend their empires, the Second World War would re-divide the world between competing blocs of capitalists.
  61. A Marxist History of the World part 89: 1941-1945: barbarism in a world gone mad
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The Second World War was characterised by primeval savagery. Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia and Militarist Japan waged war with unprecedented brutality, but the ‘democracies’ also committed terrible war crimes.
  62. The Mass Psychology of Fascism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    Wilhelm Reich's class study, written during the years of the German crisis. Reich repudiates the concept that fascism is the ideology or action of a single individual or nationality, or any ethnic or political group. He understands fascism as the expression of the irrational character structure of human beings whose needs and impulses have been suppressed.
  63. Master race
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article
  64. Meeting the Challenge of the Right
    Introduction to the October 9, 2017 issue of Other Voices

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    When we talk about the Right, it is well to keep in mind that "the Right" is by no means a unified political force or organization, but rather a label used to describe a disparate collection of ideologies, parties, groups, and individuals.
  65. Mein Kampf
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1943
  66. The Nationalization of the Masses
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
  67. The Nazi Connection
    Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism

    Resource Type: Book
    This book shows the eugenic/racist connections between Nazi Germany and the US. Responsibility for the holocaust extends beyond Germany.
  68. The Nazi Officer's Wife
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
  69. Nazi Olympics
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    Describes the Nazification of sports in Germany in the 1930s and its broader context.
  70. The Nazi Seizure of Power
    The Experience of a Single German Town

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
    A study of how the Nazi takeover took place in one German town.
  71. A Nazi Skeleton in the Family Closet
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Chrystia Freeland's dark family secret is that her grandfather, Mykhailo Chomiak, faithfully served Nazi Germany right up to its surrender, and Chomiak's family only moved to Canada after the Third Reich was defeated by the Soviet Union’s Red Army and its allies – the U.S. and Great Britain. Mykhailo Chomiak was not a victim of the war – he was on the side of the German aggressors who collaborated with Ukrainian nationalists in killing Russians, Jews, Poles and other minorities. Former journalist Freeland chose to whitewash her family history to leave out her grandfather’s service to Adolf Hitler. Of course, if she had told the truth, she might never have achieved a successful political career in Canada. Her fierce hostility toward Russia also might be viewed in a different light.
  72. The Nazis and Deconstruction: Jean-Pierre Faye's Demolition of Derrida
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1993
    A review of Jean-Pierre Faye's book 'La raison narrative', which traces the Nazi origins of deconstructionist and post-modernist concepts and terminology. Faye shows, for example, that the concept of 'deconstruction' was introduced in a Nazi journal edited by M.H. Goering, and he shows how theorists who based themselves on Heidegger's writings, such as Derrida, Lyotard, and Lacoue-Labarthe, whitewashed Heidegger's Nazism, treating it as a mere 'detail'.
  73. The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
  74. The Nuremberg Rallies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  75. Nuremberg Trials
    Ballantine's Illustratrd History of the Violent Century Politics in Action No. 8

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  76. Ontological "Difference" and the Neo-Liberal War on the Social
    Deconstruction and Deindustrialization

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2001
    We have today legions of people with a smattering of knowledge turning out reams of books filled with buzz words that could be (and have been) produced by a computer program, and could be (and are) picked up in peer-group shop talk in a few months at the nearest humanities program or academic conference. Everyone these people don't like is trapped in a "gaze"; everyone "constitutes" their "identity" by "discourse"; to the fuddy-duddy "master narratives" that talk about such indelicate subjects as world accumulation these people counterpose "pastiche" and "bricolage", the very idea of being in any way systematic smacking of "totalitarianism"; it is blithely assumed that everyone except heterosexual white males now and for all time have been "subversives" (one wonders why we are still living under capitalism); a crippling relativism makes it somehow "imperial" to criticize public beheadings in Saudi Arabia or cliterodectomy practiced on five-year old girls in the Sudan.
  77. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 9, 2017
    Meeting the Challenge of the Right

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    Challenging the Right requires not only anti-fascist actions in the street, but organizing to reach those who may be attracted the the appeal of the Right and offering an alternative social vision. This issue of Other Voices offers a number of articles, books, and films offering different perspectives on meeting the challenge of the right.
  78. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
  79. Press for Conversion #54
    August 2004

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2004
    The Bush family's links to fascism.
  80. Resistance
    One Woman's Defiance in Occupied France

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    The memoir of a French resistance fighter and museum worker who chronicles the undergroud network of resistance in Paris during the occupation. She then chronicles her imprisonment and the slave labour she endured in Germany. The final section of her memoir recounts her release by the Americans and the time she spent helping them hunt Nazis after the war.
  81. Resistance during World War II
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
  82. Resistance in Europe: 1939 - 45
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    Essays on the resistance against Hitler during World War II.
  83. Responsibility and Judgment
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
  84. Review of three books about Heidegger
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1994
  85. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
    A History of Nazi Germany

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1960
  86. The Secret of Hitler's Victory
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1934
    In this book, the Petroffs set out to answer the question that has perplexed so many onlookers in other countries: How did it come about that the apparently mighty forces of the German Left fell in one night, and without resistance, before the Nazi attack?
  87. Sex-Pol
    Essays 1929-1934

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    Wilhelm Reich's writings from his Marxist period, outlining his thoughts about sexual and political liberation.
  88. Sisters in the Resistance
    The Women's War to Free France

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    Weitz documented accounts of 70 women involved in the Resistance.
  89. Die Standhaften
    Über den Widerstand in Kassel und Hessen-Waldeck 1933-1945

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    Lokalhistorische Studie zum Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus.
  90. Strange Fruit
    Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    Malik makes the case that most anti-racists accept the belief, also held by racialists and outright racists, that differences between groups are of great importance. While racialists attribute the differences to biology, anti-racists attribute them to deep-rooted cultural traditions which are typically seen as inherent in the group. Malik argues that these positions are actually quite similar, and makes the case that racism and racial inequality are best combatted by focusing not on our differences but on what unites us. Malik also strongly criticizes the cultural relativism of many anti-racists, and their increasing tendency to reject science as some kind of western imperialist conspiracy to oppress the rest of the world.
  91. The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    A collection of Leon Trotsky's writings on the situation in Germany from 1930 to 1940. From 1930 on Trotsky sounded the alarm about the rise of fascism in Germany, and warned that the policies of the Communist Party and the Social Democrats were likely to lead to disaster. He urged a common front, mobilizing the German working class regardless of party affiliation, against the Nazis.
  92. This Rough Game
    Fascism and Anti-Fascism

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    Renton describes the rise of European Fascism, the condition of Weimar Germany, British fascism, Battle of Cable Street and Hitler's life.
  93. Der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  94. The Warsaw rising
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  95. White Rose
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A non-violent/intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of students from the University of Munich and their philosophy professor.
  96. Widerstand und Verweigerung in Deutschland 1933 bis 1945
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
  97. The Workers' Fight against Fascism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1941
    We do not propose to discuss the 'task' of the workers. The workers have already too long done other people's tasks, imposed on them under the high-sounding names of humanity, of human progress, of justice, and freedom, and what not. It is one of the redeeming features of a bad situation that some of the illusions, hitherto surviving among the working class from their past participation in the revolutionary fight of the bourgeoisie against feudal society, have finally been exploded. The only 'task' for the workers, as for every other class, is to look out for themselves.
  98. Zionism in the Age of the Dictators
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    Documenting Zionist collaboration with Nazism.

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