#national-socialism — Public Fediverse posts

@jlou
That’s a big red flag for me. As soon as I come across ‘mandated’, in this case, in terms of a universally enforced single mode of production in an economic model, I see #NationalSocialism and #Fascism and I tend to switch off. Sry. If this is really your opinion I don’t wish to engage further.

@jlou
That’s a big red flag for me. As soon as I come across ‘mandated’, in this case, in terms of a universally enforced single mode of production in an economic model, I see #NationalSocialism and #Fascism and I tend to switch off. Sry. If this is really your opinion I don’t wish to engage further.

Genealogical Diagram: From Romanticism to Marxism, National Socialism, and Fascism

                           ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                           │   ROUSSEAU & ROMANTICISM                     │
                           │  Natural self • Emotion • Authenticity       │
                           │  Anti-rationalism • Volk (Herder)            │
                           └───────────────┬──────────────────────────────┘
                                           │
                                           ▼
                           ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                           │   KANT (Critical Philosophy)                 │
                           │  Limits of reason • Transcendental subject   │
                           │  Moral autonomy • Noumena/phenomena          │
                           └───────────────┬──────────────────────────────┘
                                           │
                                           ▼
                     ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                     │ FICHTE & EARLY GERMAN IDEALISM                         │
                     │  The “I” posits itself • Struggle • Nationalism        │
                     │  State as moral educator • Volk as spiritual unity     │
                     └─────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┘
                                           │
                                           ▼
                           ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                           │   SCHELLING (Nature Philosophy)              │
                           │  Romantic metaphysics • Nature as Spirit     │
                           └───────────────┬──────────────────────────────┘
                                           │
                                           ▼
                           ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                           │   HEGEL (High German Idealism)               │
                           │  Dialectic • Spirit • History • State        │
                           └───────────────┬──────────────────────────────┘
                                           │
                                           │
       ┌───────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┐
       │                                   │                                              │
       ▼                                   ▼                                              ▼
┌──────────────────────┐       ┌──────────────────────────────┐            ┌──────────────────────────────┐
│      MARXISM         │       │   NATIONAL SOCIALISM         │            │           FASCISM            │
│ (Hegel inverted;     │       │ (Fichtean nationalism;       │            │ (Romantic will; myth;        │
│  class dialectic)    │       │  anti-Hegel due to Marx)     │            │  State as unity)             │
└──────────────────────┘       └──────────────────────────────┘            └──────────────────────────────┘
       │                                   │                                              │
       ▼                                   ▼                                              ▼
┌──────────────────────┐       ┌──────────────────────────────┐            ┌──────────────────────────────┐
│     COMMUNISM        │       │      HITLERISM / NAZISM      │            │     MUSSOLINI’S FASCISM      │
│ (Proletarian state)  │       │ (Rosenberg uses Fichte, not  │            │ (Sorel + nationalism +       │
│                      │       │  Hegel; Volk + race + State) │            │  modernist authoritarianism) │
└──────────────────────┘       └──────────────────────────────┘            └──────────────────────────────┘

How to Read the Genealogy

1. Rousseau & Romanticism — the emotional and moral root system

Rousseau and the early Romantic movement sit at the same level because they are essentially two expressions of the same worldview. Rousseau provides the philosophical core; Romanticism turns it into a cultural force.

Together they supply the soil from which later ideologies grow:

• authenticity over rationalism
• the natural self as morally pure
• suspicion of civilisation and modernity
• the heroic individual
• the Volk as an organic cultural community (Johann Gottfried Herder’s contribution)
• emotion as a guide to truth

This is the pre‑ideological foundation that later thinkers will systematise, politicise, or weaponise.

2. Kant — the bridge from Romantic sentiment to philosophical structure

Immanuel Kant is not a Romantic, but he provides the crucial intellectual machinery that makes German Idealism possible:

• the transcendental subject
• the limits of empirical reason
• the autonomy of the moral will
• the distinction between appearance and reality

Kant gives later thinkers the architecture they need to turn Romantic intuitions into philosophical systems.

3. Fichte & Early German Idealism — the nationalist and voluntarist turn

Fichte stands at the same level as Early German Idealism because he is its first full expression. He radicalises Kant and fuses him with Romantic nationalism.

Fichte introduces:

• the self (“I”) as world‑creating
• struggle as the engine of moral development
• the State as educator and moral shaper
• the Volk as a spiritual community defined by language and culture
• the idea that national unity is a moral imperative

This is why the National Socialists later mined him so heavily: he provides a philosophical justification for unity, struggle, and State supremacy without the Marxist baggage attached to Hegel.

4. Schelling — the Romantic metaphysician

Schelling blends Romanticism and Idealism into a metaphysics of nature:

• nature as living Spirit
• the unity of mind and world
• the aesthetic as a path to truth

He is the bridge between Fichte’s voluntarism and Hegel’s system‑building.

5. Hegel — the system‑builder of history and the State

Hegel takes the entire Romantic–Idealist inheritance and turns it into a grand historical machine:

• the dialectic
• Spirit unfolding through conflict
• history as rational development
• the State as the embodiment of ethical life
• freedom as recognition within institutions

Hegel is the pivot point. From him, the ideological branches diverge.

• Marx takes Hegel’s dialectic and flips it upside down: materialism instead of Spirit, class instead of consciousness.
• National Socialists reject Hegel because Marx used him, turning instead to Fichte and Herder.
• Fascists borrow the Romantic–voluntarist elements (myth, will, unity) without the metaphysical system.

6. The Three Ideological Descendants

Marxism

• class struggle
• materialism
• historical determinism
• the dialectic inverted
• the State as instrument of class rule

Marxism is Hegel without Spirit, Romanticism without the individual, and Fichte without the nation.

National Socialism

• racial struggle
• Volk as biological destiny
• State supremacy
• unity through exclusion
• Fichtean nationalism + Herderian cultural unity

Nazism is Fichte radicalised, Herder racialised, and Romanticism weaponised.

Fascism

• myth
• will
• unity
• anti‑liberal modernism
• the State as a living organism

Fascism is Romanticism without Rousseau, Fichte without metaphysics, and Hegel with the “correct” dialectic.

7. The Big Picture

All three ideologies — Marxism, National Socialism, and Fascism — draw from the same Romantic–Idealist well, but each selects different ingredients:

• Marxism takes Hegel’s dialectic and Rousseau’s egalitarian moralism.
• National Socialism takes Fichte’s nationalism and Herder’s Volk metaphysics.
• Fascism takes Romantic will, myth, and the unified State.

They are siblings, not strangers — born from the same intellectual family, but raised in different political households.

Genealogical Diagram: From Romanticism to Marxism, National Socialism, and Fascism

                           ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                           │   ROUSSEAU & ROMANTICISM                     │
                           │  Natural self • Emotion • Authenticity       │
                           │  Anti-rationalism • Volk (Herder)            │
                           └───────────────┬──────────────────────────────┘
                                           │
                                           ▼
                           ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                           │   KANT (Critical Philosophy)                 │
                           │  Limits of reason • Transcendental subject   │
                           │  Moral autonomy • Noumena/phenomena          │
                           └───────────────┬──────────────────────────────┘
                                           │
                                           ▼
                     ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                     │ FICHTE & EARLY GERMAN IDEALISM                         │
                     │  The “I” posits itself • Struggle • Nationalism        │
                     │  State as moral educator • Volk as spiritual unity     │
                     └─────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┘
                                           │
                                           ▼
                           ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                           │   SCHELLING (Nature Philosophy)              │
                           │  Romantic metaphysics • Nature as Spirit     │
                           └───────────────┬──────────────────────────────┘
                                           │
                                           ▼
                           ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                           │   HEGEL (High German Idealism)               │
                           │  Dialectic • Spirit • History • State        │
                           └───────────────┬──────────────────────────────┘
                                           │
                                           │
       ┌───────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┐
       │                                   │                                              │
       ▼                                   ▼                                              ▼
┌──────────────────────┐       ┌──────────────────────────────┐            ┌──────────────────────────────┐
│      MARXISM         │       │   NATIONAL SOCIALISM         │            │           FASCISM            │
│ (Hegel inverted;     │       │ (Fichtean nationalism;       │            │ (Romantic will; myth;        │
│  class dialectic)    │       │  anti-Hegel due to Marx)     │            │  State as unity)             │
└──────────────────────┘       └──────────────────────────────┘            └──────────────────────────────┘
       │                                   │                                              │
       ▼                                   ▼                                              ▼
┌──────────────────────┐       ┌──────────────────────────────┐            ┌──────────────────────────────┐
│     COMMUNISM        │       │      HITLERISM / NAZISM      │            │     MUSSOLINI’S FASCISM      │
│ (Proletarian state)  │       │ (Rosenberg uses Fichte, not  │            │ (Sorel + nationalism +       │
│                      │       │  Hegel; Volk + race + State) │            │  modernist authoritarianism) │
└──────────────────────┘       └──────────────────────────────┘            └──────────────────────────────┘

How to Read the Genealogy

1. Rousseau & Romanticism — the emotional and moral root system

Rousseau and the early Romantic movement sit at the same level because they are essentially two expressions of the same worldview. Rousseau provides the philosophical core; Romanticism turns it into a cultural force.

Together they supply the soil from which later ideologies grow:

• authenticity over rationalism
• the natural self as morally pure
• suspicion of civilisation and modernity
• the heroic individual
• the Volk as an organic cultural community (Johann Gottfried Herder’s contribution)
• emotion as a guide to truth

This is the pre‑ideological foundation that later thinkers will systematise, politicise, or weaponise.

2. Kant — the bridge from Romantic sentiment to philosophical structure

Immanuel Kant is not a Romantic, but he provides the crucial intellectual machinery that makes German Idealism possible:

• the transcendental subject
• the limits of empirical reason
• the autonomy of the moral will
• the distinction between appearance and reality

Kant gives later thinkers the architecture they need to turn Romantic intuitions into philosophical systems.

3. Fichte & Early German Idealism — the nationalist and voluntarist turn

Fichte stands at the same level as Early German Idealism because he is its first full expression. He radicalises Kant and fuses him with Romantic nationalism.

Fichte introduces:

• the self (“I”) as world‑creating
• struggle as the engine of moral development
• the State as educator and moral shaper
• the Volk as a spiritual community defined by language and culture
• the idea that national unity is a moral imperative

This is why the National Socialists later mined him so heavily: he provides a philosophical justification for unity, struggle, and State supremacy without the Marxist baggage attached to Hegel.

4. Schelling — the Romantic metaphysician

Schelling blends Romanticism and Idealism into a metaphysics of nature:

• nature as living Spirit
• the unity of mind and world
• the aesthetic as a path to truth

He is the bridge between Fichte’s voluntarism and Hegel’s system‑building.

5. Hegel — the system‑builder of history and the State

Hegel takes the entire Romantic–Idealist inheritance and turns it into a grand historical machine:

• the dialectic
• Spirit unfolding through conflict
• history as rational development
• the State as the embodiment of ethical life
• freedom as recognition within institutions

Hegel is the pivot point. From him, the ideological branches diverge.

• Marx takes Hegel’s dialectic and flips it upside down: materialism instead of Spirit, class instead of consciousness.
• National Socialists reject Hegel because Marx used him, turning instead to Fichte and Herder.
• Fascists borrow the Romantic–voluntarist elements (myth, will, unity) without the metaphysical system.

6. The Three Ideological Descendants

Marxism

• class struggle
• materialism
• historical determinism
• the dialectic inverted
• the State as instrument of class rule

Marxism is Hegel without Spirit, Romanticism without the individual, and Fichte without the nation.

National Socialism

• racial struggle
• Volk as biological destiny
• State supremacy
• unity through exclusion
• Fichtean nationalism + Herderian cultural unity

Nazism is Fichte radicalised, Herder racialised, and Romanticism weaponised.

Fascism

• myth
• will
• unity
• anti‑liberal modernism
• the State as a living organism

Fascism is Romanticism without Rousseau, Fichte without metaphysics, and Hegel with the “correct” dialectic.

7. The Big Picture

All three ideologies — Marxism, National Socialism, and Fascism — draw from the same Romantic–Idealist well, but each selects different ingredients:

• Marxism takes Hegel’s dialectic and Rousseau’s egalitarian moralism.
• National Socialism takes Fichte’s nationalism and Herder’s Volk metaphysics.
• Fascism takes Romantic will, myth, and the unified State.

They are siblings, not strangers — born from the same intellectual family, but raised in different political households.

@maggiechapman The #LabourParty used to believe in #socialism - now, apparently, it believes in #NationalSocialism - but, as you rightly say, it will do them no good at all!

@maggiechapman The #LabourParty used to believe in #socialism - now, apparently, it believes in #NationalSocialism - but, as you rightly say, it will do them no good at all!

"What #CDU minister-president Schulze is calling for amounts to tying citizens’ allowance to compulsory labor—and thus to #forced #labor, which is #unconstitutional. Germany has seen that twice before: under #National-Socialism and in the GDR. Apparently, he wants to pick up where that left off."

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w74oq2nxtcdfvjf57q25laoy/post/3mededuzoxc2a

A quotation from George Orwell

One ought not to pay any attention to Hitler’s recent line of talk about being the friend of the poor man, the enemy of plutocracy, etc etc. Hitler’s real self is in Mein Kampf, and in his actions. He has never persecuted the rich, except when they were Jews or when they tried actively to oppose him. He stands for a centralised economy which robs the capitalist of most of his power but leaves the structure of society much as before. The State controls industry, but there are still rich and poor, masters and men. Therefore, as against genuine Socialism, the moneyed class have always been on his side. This was crystal clear at the time of the Spanish civil war, and clear again at the time when France surrendered. Hitler’s puppet government are not working men, but a gang of bankers, gaga generals and corrupt right-wing politicians.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1941-02-19), “The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius,” Part 2 “Shopkeepers at War,” sec. 3, The Searchlight Books [ed. Fyvel and Orwell]

More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/81894/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #autocracy #classwarfare #economicinjustice #economicsystem #nationalsocialism #Nazi #plutocracy #rulingclass #socialism #upperclass

A quotation from George Orwell

One ought not to pay any attention to Hitler’s recent line of talk about being the friend of the poor man, the enemy of plutocracy, etc etc. Hitler’s real self is in Mein Kampf, and in his actions. He has never persecuted the rich, except when they were Jews or when they tried actively to oppose him. He stands for a centralised economy which robs the capitalist of most of his power but leaves the structure of society much as before. The State controls industry, but there are still rich and poor, masters and men. Therefore, as against genuine Socialism, the moneyed class have always been on his side. This was crystal clear at the time of the Spanish civil war, and clear again at the time when France surrendered. Hitler’s puppet government are not working men, but a gang of bankers, gaga generals and corrupt right-wing politicians.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1941-02-19), “The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius,” Part 2 “Shopkeepers at War,” sec. 3, The Searchlight Books [ed. Fyvel and Orwell]

More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/81894/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #autocracy #classwarfare #economicinjustice #economicsystem #nationalsocialism #Nazi #plutocracy #rulingclass #socialism #upperclass

A quotation from George Orwell

Fascism, at any rate the German version, is a form of capitalism that borrows from socialism just such features as will make it efficient for war purposes.
   Internally, Germany has a good deal in common with a Socialist state. Ownership has never been abolished, there are still capitalists and workers, and — this is the important point, and the real reason why rich men all over the world tend to sympathise with Fascism — generally speaking the same people are capitalists and the same people workers as before the Nazi revolution. But at the same time the State, which is simply the Nazi Party, is in control of everything. […]
   But the idea underlying Fascism is irreconcilably different from that which underlies Socialism. Socialism aims, ultimately, at a world-state of free and equal human beings. It takes equality of human rights for granted. Nazism assumes just the opposite. The driving force behind the Nazi movement is the belief in human inequality, the superiority of Germans to all other races, the right of Germany to rule the world.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1941-02-19), “The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius,” Part 2 “Shopkeepers at War,” sec. 1, The Searchlight Books [ed. Fyvel and Orwell]

More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/81726/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #georgeorwell #capitalism #fascism #nationalsocialism #Nazi #socialism

A quotation from George Orwell

Fascism, at any rate the German version, is a form of capitalism that borrows from socialism just such features as will make it efficient for war purposes.
   Internally, Germany has a good deal in common with a Socialist state. Ownership has never been abolished, there are still capitalists and workers, and — this is the important point, and the real reason why rich men all over the world tend to sympathise with Fascism — generally speaking the same people are capitalists and the same people workers as before the Nazi revolution. But at the same time the State, which is simply the Nazi Party, is in control of everything. […]
   But the idea underlying Fascism is irreconcilably different from that which underlies Socialism. Socialism aims, ultimately, at a world-state of free and equal human beings. It takes equality of human rights for granted. Nazism assumes just the opposite. The driving force behind the Nazi movement is the belief in human inequality, the superiority of Germans to all other races, the right of Germany to rule the world.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1941-02-19), “The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius,” Part 2 “Shopkeepers at War,” sec. 1, The Searchlight Books [ed. Fyvel and Orwell]

More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/81726/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #georgeorwell #capitalism #fascism #nationalsocialism #Nazi #socialism

Watched #JudgementAtNuremberg on #TCM yesterday afternoon. Had never seen the whole film from start to end. Many of the lines describing #Hitler, the #Nazis, and life under #NationalSocialism sounded contemporary. Great movie, very sobering in these times.

Watched #JudgementAtNuremberg on #TCM yesterday afternoon. Had never seen the whole film from start to end. Many of the lines describing #Hitler, the #Nazis, and life under #NationalSocialism sounded contemporary. Great movie, very sobering in these times.

For all who have never been to Auschwitz: Visit the memorials of the "concentration camps" in Auschwitz, -Birkenau and -Monowitz: https://multibook.auschwitz.org/przygot-en/

🕯️💔 27 January 1945 – Day of Liberation – today, 81 years ago. 🕯️ 🖤

Further information: https://auschwitz.org/en/ & https://visit.auschwitz.org & @auschwitzmuseum

#AuschwitzBirkenau #ConcentrationCamp #Nationalsocialism #Fascism #Holocaust #Oświęcim #GermanHistory #HolocaustMemorial #Shoah #HolocaustRemembranceDay #Auschwitz

"#western" """""#radicals"""" seeing #NationalSocialism:

"is this the #Revolution?"

"#western" """""#radicals"""" seeing #NationalSocialism:

"is this the #Revolution?"

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-the-real-commie-mamdani-sanders-democratic-socialism

"The Sanders/Mamdani style of #DemocraticSocialism is, whatever its merits, at least compatible with America’s tradition of liberal democracy.

“The Trump style of #NationalSocialism is not."

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-the-real-commie-mamdani-sanders-democratic-socialism

"The Sanders/Mamdani style of #DemocraticSocialism is, whatever its merits, at least compatible with America’s tradition of liberal democracy.

“The Trump style of #NationalSocialism is not."

Axis Victor A.U maps.
#map #Earth #sfw #image #axis #axispowers #worldwartwo #ww2 #alternatehistory #originalmap #germany #nationalsocialism #nazi #thirdreich #japan #italy #romanempire #sovietunion

“Bernie’s democratic socialism is still compatible with liberal democracy. Trump’s national socialism is not. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/trump-is-the-real-commie-mamdani-sanders-democratic-socialism?r=hp2rs&utm_medium=ios

#Socialism #Communism #NationalSocialism #Trump #MAGA #Government #Politics #USPolitics

Zionism is national socialism for another people.

Don’t believe me? The diaries of jews held in German concentration camps certainly seem to notice the similarities:

”This is Hitler’s reasoning”
”Sometimes precisely his words!”

This is what jews of the time — in concentration camps! — said of Herzl.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdvrjf4x/

#zionism #nationalsocialism

Zionism is national socialism for another people.

Don’t believe me? The diaries of jews held in German concentration camps certainly seem to notice the similarities:

”This is Hitler’s reasoning”
”Sometimes precisely his words!”

This is what jews of the time — in concentration camps! — said of Herzl.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdvrjf4x/

#zionism #nationalsocialism

@mattblaze
I'm a politics ignoramous, heck I try not to discuss contemporary politics, for it would drive me to distraction, but (if it isn't old news to you) I have a feeling you may enjoy reading about the third wave experiment!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Wave_(experiment)

It mayyy be too close to the bone though.

Still, at least some kids got a very, very elegant education at a cost many many orders of magnitude below that which the Hitlerjugend paid for theirs.

(I've intentionally omitted some pertinent hashtags because I don't want to upregulate them in any system in any way).

If it isn't too soon to joke about such things, here's a gif of Arnold Rimmer trying to tell his CO he's invented a new salute (always a red flag when someone tries to do that, I reckon). Er... If it is too soon to ridicule such things, come back to this post in a few years and hopefully it'll be funny then...

#NationalSocialism #EthnoNationalism #politics #politicalScience #philosophy #civics #law #policing #whatWouldSirRobertPeelDo #psychology #politicalTheory #memes #memetics #cambridgeAnalytica #cybernetics #comedy #redDwarf #sciFi

@mattblaze
I'm a politics ignoramous, heck I try not to discuss contemporary politics, for it would drive me to distraction, but (if it isn't old news to you) I have a feeling you may enjoy reading about the third wave experiment!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Wave_(experiment)

It mayyy be too close to the bone though.

Still, at least some kids got a very, very elegant education at a cost many many orders of magnitude below that which the Hitlerjugend paid for theirs.

(I've intentionally omitted some pertinent hashtags because I don't want to upregulate them in any system in any way).

If it isn't too soon to joke about such things, here's a gif of Arnold Rimmer trying to tell his CO he's invented a new salute (always a red flag when someone tries to do that, I reckon). Er... If it is too soon to ridicule such things, come back to this post in a few years and hopefully it'll be funny then...

#NationalSocialism #EthnoNationalism #politics #politicalScience #philosophy #civics #law #policing #whatWouldSirRobertPeelDo #psychology #politicalTheory #memes #memetics #cambridgeAnalytica #cybernetics #comedy #redDwarf #sciFi

Starmer finally succeeds in uniting the UK.

Truly he is a political genius.

#No2ID #LABOUR #NationalSocialism #UKPolitics

🇮🇳 🇩🇪 **Manoeuvring Across Academia in National Socialist Germany: The Life and Work of Devendra Nath Bannerjea**

"_The article explores the relationship between knowledge production and National Socialist state politics through the lens of Bannerjea’s life, focussing on the exchange of resources between Bannerjea and the National Socialist apparatus._"

Framke, M. Manoeuvring Across Academia in National Socialist Germany: The Life and Work of Devendra Nath Bannerjea. N.T.M. 31, 307–332 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00048-023-00363-0.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #India #NationalSocialism #Germany #Knowledge #Academia

🇮🇳 🇩🇪 **Manoeuvring Across Academia in National Socialist Germany: The Life and Work of Devendra Nath Bannerjea**

"_The article explores the relationship between knowledge production and National Socialist state politics through the lens of Bannerjea’s life, focussing on the exchange of resources between Bannerjea and the National Socialist apparatus._"

Framke, M. Manoeuvring Across Academia in National Socialist Germany: The Life and Work of Devendra Nath Bannerjea. N.T.M. 31, 307–332 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00048-023-00363-0.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #India #NationalSocialism #Germany #Knowledge #Academia

Amichai Eliyahu, Israeli government minister:

"We are wiping out the population in Gaza."

President Herzog:

"It's a shame that the French president is ruining the chance for peace."

#NationalSocialism #Nazis #DeathToTheIDF #Gaza #Genocide

Amichai Eliyahu, Israeli government minister:

"We are wiping out the population in Gaza."

President Herzog:

"It's a shame that the French president is ruining the chance for peace."

#NationalSocialism #Nazis #DeathToTheIDF #Gaza #Genocide

When #reality is a #caricature: "Know Your #ICE Agent" https://boingboing.net/2025/07/01/tom-the-dancing-bug-know-your-ice-agent.html by @rubenbolling aka #TomtheDancingBug

As a historically informed #German, this is really very similar to the #Nazi-#Gestapo : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo#Ranks_and_uniforms (GeStaPo = Geheime StaatsPolizei = Secret State Police)

#Trump #Fascism #Hitler #NationalSocialism #NSDAP #GeheimeStaatspolizei #UnitedStates #ImmigrationandCustomsEnforcement #USA #USSA #USSSA #felon47 #USpol #USfascism #cartoon #politics #ICEagents

Mein Englisch ist echt schlecht geworden, weil ich es derzeit so selten brauche.

Aber ich hab da trotzdem mal was aufgenommen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsKP8bAR34A

Freue mich über Euer Feedback, was Ihr davon haltet!

#Nazis #NationalSocialism #AggressiveNationalism

🇩🇪 **Was Fichte a Proto-Fascist?**

“_Fichte was not a proto-fascist, though certain aspects of his writing and his style had a strong appeal to fascists._”

Phillips, R. L. (2025) ‘Was Fichte a Proto-Fascist?’, The European Legacy, pp. 1–20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2025.2500229.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Philosophy #Fichte #Fascism #Fascist #NationalSocialism #Germany #Europe #Academia #Academic @philosophy

🇩🇪 **Was Fichte a Proto-Fascist?**

“_Fichte was not a proto-fascist, though certain aspects of his writing and his style had a strong appeal to fascists._”

Phillips, R. L. (2025) ‘Was Fichte a Proto-Fascist?’, The European Legacy, pp. 1–20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2025.2500229.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Philosophy #Fichte #Fascism #Fascist #NationalSocialism #Germany #Europe #Academia #Academic @philosophy

The complete interview is even worse

#NationalSocialism #Israel

The complete interview is even worse

#NationalSocialism #Israel

@lowqualityfacts

One never knows when one might suddenly fall (or brake) into a crypt whilst being chased by Nazis.

#Archeology #Lighting #Torches #HarrisonFord #NationalSocialism #ArcOfTheCovenant

@lowqualityfacts

One never knows when one might suddenly fall (or brake) into a crypt whilst being chased by Nazis.

#Archeology #Lighting #Torches #HarrisonFord #NationalSocialism #ArcOfTheCovenant

#CPAC #GOP #USA #NationalSocialism #Fascism #Musk #Bannon

"And we HEIL, HEIL, right in Der Führer's Face!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7vb89c6pQY

#CPAC #GOP #USA #NationalSocialism #Fascism #Musk #Bannon

Because the Hitler Salute was banned in Germany and Austria in 1945, the Neo-Nazi scene started using gestures that look almost like a Nazi salute, but are not quite exact — like raising your arm with three outstretched fingers (Kühnen salute), or with the elbow bent sideways (Quenelle Salute), or to the top (as seen be Hitler).

The idea: We're doing a Hitler salute, we have the same mindset, we recognise each other — while getting you hooked up on technicalities.

Musk and Bannon (and probably some others to follow) are doing the same.

#CPAC #GOP #USA #NationalSocialism #Fascism

The next Nazi salute at a conference, this time by Steve Bannon (at CPAC today). Together with lots of talk about strength and dominance and inducing fear. And calling for a third term of Trump.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/steve-bannon-cpac-nazi-salute-b2702063.html

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Heute ist der Tag des Gedenkens an die Opfer des #Nationalsozialismus. Er erinnert an die Befreiung des nationalsozialistischen Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslagers #Auschwitz vor 80 Jahren, in dem mehr als eine Million Menschen ermordet wurden. Mindestens 300.000 psychisch Kranke und Menschen mit Behinderungen, darunter 396 Patientinnen und Patienten der damaligen Heilanstalt Winnental – dem heutigen Klinikum Schloß Winnenden – fielen dem Euthanasieprogramm zum Opfer.

👉 Das ZfP Klinikum Schloß Winnenden mahnt und erinnert mit der Veranstaltung „Man wird ja wohl noch sagen dürfen…“ daran, dass Sprache zur Ausgrenzung, Stigmatisierung und antidemokratischen Propaganda missbraucht werden kann. Die Ausstellung und ein begleitendes Theaterstück beleuchten demokratiefeindliche und menschenverachtende Begriffe von damals und heute. Was bedeuten diese Wörter? Wie wurden sie früher angewendet, und wie werden sie heute genutzt? Und was kann man gegen die giftige Wirkung von Sprache tun?

💬 Sozialminister Manne Lucha gedenkt den Opfern des Nationalsozialismus: „Demokratie lebt vom Wissen um ihre Geschichte. Wir müssen informieren, aufklären und die Erinnerung auch an die dunkelsten Kapitel unserer Geschichte stets wachhalten, damit nie wieder geschieht, was nie wieder geschehen darf. Die Zentren für Psychiatrie in Baden-Württemberg leisten mit ihrer exzellenten Aufklärungs- und Forschungsarbeit, mit Mahnmalen und Ausstellungen, mit Informationsveranstaltungen und dem jährlichen Begehen des Gedenktages für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus vorbildliche Arbeit.“

Foto: @janinekyofskyfotografie

#WeRemember #gedenkenandieOpfer #Nationalsozialismus #Holocaust #Memorial #Genocide #RememberingHistory #NeverForget #NationalSocialism #AntiFascism #Euthanasie

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Heute ist der Tag des Gedenkens an die Opfer des #Nationalsozialismus. Er erinnert an die Befreiung des nationalsozialistischen Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslagers #Auschwitz vor 80 Jahren, in dem mehr als eine Million Menschen ermordet wurden. Mindestens 300.000 psychisch Kranke und Menschen mit Behinderungen, darunter 396 Patientinnen und Patienten der damaligen Heilanstalt Winnental – dem heutigen Klinikum Schloß Winnenden – fielen dem Euthanasieprogramm zum Opfer.

👉 Das ZfP Klinikum Schloß Winnenden mahnt und erinnert mit der Veranstaltung „Man wird ja wohl noch sagen dürfen…“ daran, dass Sprache zur Ausgrenzung, Stigmatisierung und antidemokratischen Propaganda missbraucht werden kann. Die Ausstellung und ein begleitendes Theaterstück beleuchten demokratiefeindliche und menschenverachtende Begriffe von damals und heute. Was bedeuten diese Wörter? Wie wurden sie früher angewendet, und wie werden sie heute genutzt? Und was kann man gegen die giftige Wirkung von Sprache tun?

💬 Sozialminister Manne Lucha gedenkt den Opfern des Nationalsozialismus: „Demokratie lebt vom Wissen um ihre Geschichte. Wir müssen informieren, aufklären und die Erinnerung auch an die dunkelsten Kapitel unserer Geschichte stets wachhalten, damit nie wieder geschieht, was nie wieder geschehen darf. Die Zentren für Psychiatrie in Baden-Württemberg leisten mit ihrer exzellenten Aufklärungs- und Forschungsarbeit, mit Mahnmalen und Ausstellungen, mit Informationsveranstaltungen und dem jährlichen Begehen des Gedenktages für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus vorbildliche Arbeit.“

Foto: @janinekyofskyfotografie

#WeRemember #gedenkenandieOpfer #Nationalsozialismus #Holocaust #Memorial #Genocide #RememberingHistory #NeverForget #NationalSocialism #AntiFascism #Euthanasie

"I am too blind to read but what has been read to me of it would seem to be excellent propaganda ..."

Letter to the editor from a reader of the British magazine "FREE AUSTRIA" in January 1941.
FA was edited by the so called Austrian office which consisted of Austrians from all political parties who lived in exile in GB during #ww2. With their articles they tried to support Great Britain's fight against #nationalsocialism and promote an indipendent #austrian identity.

#widerstand #histodon

86 years ago today, the #nazis murdered hundreds of Jews, imprisoned and humiliated 10,000s and destroyed countless Jewish businesses, institutions and synagogues. Among them was one of the most outstanding places of worship ever: the barn synagogue in Bechhofen in #middlefranconia. Jim Tobias and I have erected a small memorial to it on German radio @[email protected].

https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/reichspogromnacht-scheunensynogoge-in-bechhofen-zerstoert-dlf-kultur-72dcd4d9-100.html

. #jews #judaism #nationalsocialism #history #reichspogromnacht

This long-form essay is truly one of the most incredible things I've ever read about the everyday ideas and hatreds that birthed Nazism, and it's been published in The Guardian of all places.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/23/my-family-and-other-nazis

"My family and other Nazis"

Writing at length and with deep introspection, Martin Pollack details his life growing up in post-war Austria, and his experience of coming to grips with his family of devout Nazis who absolutely never gave up the beliefs and ideology that led them to support Hitler, join various Nazi organizations (including the Gestapo), commit atrocities in support of Nazism, and live on believing the same ideas until their passing; apparently without a single ounce of remorse.

"My family were all Nazis. My grandfather and grandmother. My mother and my father. My stepfather, my uncle – literally all of them were hardcore Nazis during the second world war. And after? Not a single one changed their convictions or voiced any regrets for the Nazi crimes. On the contrary, they denied or justified them, including the Holocaust and mass murder committed with their knowledge and, worst of all, sometimes their active participation. We were not exceptional – in Austria and Germany, there were many families like ours."

As I mentioned above, this is an extremely long, and personal essay but after reading it, two major things really stuck out to me as both haunting, and ominous for our present moment during the rise of a rebooted form of overt, violent fascism.

The first thing that struck me is how absolutely chilling and contemporary this essay is, despite the fact that Pollack is writing about the beliefs, attitudes and motivations of his family members (and many other Austrians living around them) in the interwar period of the 1930's. This focus on the everyday beliefs and antipathies of regular people in his own life that would go on to become literal Nazis, and remain unrepentant Nazis long after the war ended, both demystifies the story of "how Nazism happened" but also puts the phenomenon of Nazism into an all too familiar context for anyone reading his story in the here and now. When Pollack writes about what his family believed, and taught their children, he could just as well be describing the beliefs and ideas of contemporary right wing and reactionary families in our present culture, and indeed he takes a few moments to point that out himself:

"Almost 80 years after the end of the war, how is it possible that such strong echoes of national socialism remain apparently attractive? Why are people, living in peaceful times, in a democracy with all its benefits, planning to undermine and destroy that very system while aiming to revive the ideology and methods of the past? Hate speech, xenophobia, racism, thoughts of the superiority of a master race, the admiration of a strong man, a Führer, who rules with an iron fist, are gaining ground as if nazism had never happened. This afflicts not only Germany and Austria, but also other countries, including those with deeply embedded democratic traditions."

The second thing that struck me about this article isn't really something that Pollack focuses on, but rather something he interweaves throughout the piece; the act of "forgetting" the details of the atrocities, and the construction of "official stories" that transform Nazism from something that everyday reactionaries did willingly and with full intent, into something that was imposed on them by presumably Hitler. Although Pollack doesn't explore it much, I know from my studies of history that this forgetting and construction of official histories that aren't really histories, served the larger purpose of uniting the so-called West in anticipation of the then-brewing Cold War. Regardless of the validity of those decisions, these actions and acts of forgetting have largely served to re-mystify the ethos of Nazism and the story of "how it happened" in such a way that has left our society very vulnerable to the return of overt, violent, even genocidal fascism today. None of this will be news to left wing scholars of fascism, but collectively as a society we don't seem to know that what we're looking at all across the Pig Empire is a fascist rebirth not functionally dissimilar to the ideas and ideology that lead to the formation of the Nazi State and its atrocities, because what we've been allowed to remember, the official story, very much leaves out the "how it happened" part and the mundane, everyday antipathy and hatred that gave rise to literally the rule of Hitler, and Nazi atrocities. "Never forget" only works if you know what the real story is to remember; and it's worth reading Pollack's essay as a reminder of just how cheap, common, and contemporary that story really is.

#Fascism #Nazis #Hstory #NationalSocialism

https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-land-is-mein-land

To step back again, we have a “populist” movement with a phony anti-capitalist rhetoric that deploys nationalist myths, lead by a charismatic leader, and that is now rallying a reactionary big business elite to its cause. Call it what you will.

#nazi #nazis #nationalsocialism #fascism #maga #trump #jdvance #uspol

80 years ago, on the 20th. July 1944, Stauffenberg tried to kill Hitler. My grandma always claimed that she got the briefcase in which Stauffenberg had hidden the bomb.

Sounds totally untrustworthy? I found it too. Until I have researched...here is the result of my research:

Https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/alles-geschichte-history-von-radiowissen/omas-tasche-und-das-hitler-attentat-der-auftrag-1-4/bayern-2/13546705/

#hitler #nationalsocialism #20juli1944 #history #resistance #fascism

Am heutigen Tag des Tagebuchs verweisen wir auf 2 Werkstatt-Beiträge zu einem #Tagebuch, das #MargareteHimmler, die Ehefrau des Reichsführers SS, #HeinrichHimmler, von November 1937 bis Anfang 1945 führte:
▶ Jürgen Matthäus, "Es war sehr nett"
▶ Susanne zur Nieden, Banalitäten aus dem Schlafzimmer der Macht
Beide in: #WerkstattGeschichte 25/2000, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/portraits

@histodons @historikerinnen

#histodons #Nationalsozialismus #Tagebuchtag #Himmler #ThirdReich #NationalSocialism #Diary

"Richard Wolff noted that there’s precedent for nationalist movements co-opting communist rhetoric, particularly during times of social upheaval and economic hardship."

Looking forward to
@ThomHartmann 's next conversation with Prof Wolff!

#NationalSocialism = #Nazis

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/24/what-is-maga-communism

I'm happy to announce the publication of the collection

From Centre to Periphery and Beyond

that resulted from the 24th Workshop on NS camps and killing sites.

https://metropol-verlag.de/produkt/from-centre-to-periphery-and-beyond-the-history-and-memory-of-national-socialist-camps-and-killing-sites/

#history #german #ns #nationalsocialism #antisemitsm #datafication

@GottaLaff @MichelleRNCHPN

#USpol #History #Fascism #NationalSocialism #Hartmann

(6/6)

#Nazis do fascists deeds. Sometimes, you just have to see the ovious.

The #Israelis will not be on the winning side of this #WarInGaza, even if they managed to eliminate every last #Hamas fighter.

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