Fascism & the Holocaust
German government report highlights Nazi past of public officials
By Sybille Fuchs, 25 January 2012
A recent report issued by the German government makes clear the extent to which the West German authorities were riddled with former Nazi Party, SS and SA members.
Berlin exhibition: “Hitler and the Germans”—a historical travesty
By Verena Nees, 25 March 2011
A recent exhibition at the German Historical Museum sought to blame the German people and conceal the responsibility of German capitalism for the Hitler dictatorship.
Nazi “Butcher of Lyon” was a German intelligence agent
By Dietmar Henning, 22 January 2011
Long known to have collaborated with the CIA, Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is now revealed to have worked as a paid agent of the German intelligence service well into the 1960s.
Netherlands judiciary demands extradition of Nazi war criminal from Germany
By Elizabeth Zimmermann, 9 December 2010
The German judicial system continues to protect convicted war criminal Klaas Carel Faber from extradition to Holland, where he faces a life sentence.
Marxism and the Holocaust
By Nick Beams, 15 May 2010
The following is an addendum to the lecture “Imperialism and the political economy of the Holocaust,” delivered by Nick Beams at San Diego State University on April 29.
Imperialism and the political economy of the Holocaust
By Nick Beams, 12 May 2010
This lecture was delivered at San Diego State University on April 29. It was the eighth in a series entitled "Killing for a higher cause: Political violence in a world in crisis" sponsored by the Institute on World Affairs within the Political Science Department of the San Diego State University.
Germany: Demjanjuk trial sheds light on Nazi crimes
By Elisabeth Zimmermann, 27 January 2010
The trial of the alleged SS guard John Demjanjuk has shed further light on Nazi crimes.
Nick Beams delivers lecture in Sydney and Melbourne
World War Two: Lessons and Warnings
By Nick Beams, 18 November 2009
Nick Beams, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia) and a member of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, delivered a lecture on “World War Two: Lessons and Warnings” to audiences in Sydney and Melbourne in November, 2009.
Myths and legends about World War II exposed at Australian SEP public meetings
By our correspondents, 18 November 2009
The Socialist Equality Party in Australia held public meetings in Sydney and Melbourne this month on “Seventy years since World War II: lessons and warnings”.
The Silence of the Quandts: The history of a wealthy German family
A documentary film by Eric Friedler and Barbara Siebert
By Emma Bode and Brigitte Fehlau, 29 November 2008
The award-winning The Silence of the Quandts deals with the unscrupulous rise of one of Germany’s richest and most influential families. The family, which owns 47 percent of auto manufacturer BMW, is implicated in the crimes of the Nazi regime.
Spain: Judge Garzón abandons investigation into Franco-era crimes
By Paul Mitchell, 22 November 2008
Judge Baltasar Garzón has decided to abandon his investigation into the executions and repression carried out by the fascist regime of General Francisco Franco after protests from right-wing politicians, the media and the Roman Catholic Church.
Letters from our readers
4 November 2008
A selection of recent letters sent to the World Socialist Web Site.
Sixty-five years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
By Harvey Thompson, 16 April 2008
This week marks 65 years since the uprising by the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto against the attempt by the Nazis to transport the remaining Jewish population of the Polish capital to the Treblinka death camp.
German war crimes in Italy: part three
A scorched-earth policy
By Elisabeth Zimmermann, 9 October 2004
This is the third article in a three-part series based on two books that appeared in the 1990s: Friedrich Andrae’s Auch Gegen Frauen und Kinder—Der Krieg der Deutschen Wehrmacht Gegen die Zivilbevölkerung in Italien 1943-1945 [Against Women and Children—the German Wehrmacht’s War Against the Civilian Population in Italy, 1943-45] (Piper Verlag München, Zürich, 1994); and Gerhard Schreiber’s Deutsche Kriegsverbrechen in Italien—Täter, Opfer, Strafverfolgung [German War Crimes in Italy—Perpetrators, Victims, Punishment] (Becksche Reihe, Verlag C.H. Beck, München, 1996). The first part was posted on October 7, and the second was posted on October 8.
German war crimes in Italy: part two
Nazi terror and the resistance in Italy
By Elisabeth Zimmermann, 8 October 2004
This is the second article in a three-part series based on two books that appeared in the 1990s: Friedrich Andrae’s Auch Gegen Frauen und Kinder—Der Krieg der Deutschen Wehrmacht Gegen die Zivilbevölkerung in Italien 1943-1945 [Against Women and Children—the German Wehrmacht’s War Against the Civilian Population in Italy, 1943-45] (Piper Verlag München, Zürich, 1994); and Gerhard Schreiber’s Deutsche Kriegsverbrechen in Italien—Täter, Opfer, Strafverfolgung [German War Crimes in Italy—Perpetrators, Victims, Punishment] (Becksche Reihe, Verlag C.H. Beck, München, 1996). The first part was posted on October 7.
Forty years since the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial
Part 3—Juridical cover-up of Nazi crimes
By Sybille Fuchs, 29 April 2004
The following is the last in a three-part series of articles.
Forty years since the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial
Part 2—The accused: Henchmen acting under orders
By Sybille Fuchs, 28 April 2004
The following is the second in a three-part series of articles.
Forty years since the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial
Part one—a belated inquiry
By Sybille Fuchs, 27 April 2004
The following is the first in a three-part series of articles.
The anti-Semitism and anti-Bolshevism of the German Nazis: a letter and reply
23 December 2003
The following letter was written in response to the article “Germany: MP’s anti-Semitic speech exposes ugly face of the CDU,” posted by the World Socialist Web Sitelast November 14. The letter was originally circulated via a mailing list of disgruntled supporters of the German Greens. We publish it with a reply by the WSWS.
Sixty years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
By Harvey Thompson, 27 May 2003
“... The decline of capitalism has suspended the Jews between heaven and earth.” (1)
The debate in Germany over the crimes of Hitler’s Wehrmacht
Part 2
By Wolfgang Weber, 20 September 2001
This is the second and concluding part of a two-part article on the debate in Germany surrounding an exhibit on the crimes of Hitler’s army (the Wehrmacht). Part one was posted Wednesday, September 19.
The debate in Germany over the crimes of Hitler’s Wehrmacht
Part 1
By Wolfgang Weber, 19 September 2001
This is the first part of a two-part article on the debate in Germany surrounding an exhibit on the crimes of the German army (Wehrmacht ) under the Nazis. The second part will be posted Thursday, September 20.
Verdict in David Irving case due in two weeks
Libel suit brought by apologist for Nazi role in Holocaust concludes in London
By Richard Tyler & Peter Reydt, 24 March 2000
The 10-week trial of a libel suit brought by British author David Irving against American historian Deborah Lipstadt concluded Wednesday March 15, as closing arguments were delivered before a packed London courtroom.
The history of the former Gestapo concentration camp "Oderblick" in Schwetig/Swiecko
By Carola Kleinert and Brigritte Fehlau, 17 March 2000
On February 19 a conference on the history of the former concentration camp “Oderblick” took place in the Polish town of Slubice, which lies on the border with Germany. The conference was organised by the Project for German-Polish History of the Polonicum College, a joint institution of the universities of Slubice and the neighbouring German town of Frankfurt/Oder.
The report of former forced-labor prisoner Nicholas Livkovsky
By Carola Kleinert and Brigitte Fehlau, 17 March 2000
Nicholas Livkovsky took part in the February 19 conference in Slubice, Poland on the history of the Gestapo prison camp "Oderblick", which was located in Schwetig, near Frankfurt/Oder, Germany and Slubice (see accompanying article). Livkovsky was imprisoned there from July to November 1942, and his story speaks for that of tens of thousands who suffered the same fate. He has never received compensation for what he suffered, and in all likelihood never will, because what was done to him does not fulfil the legal criteria entitling him to compensation. Nicholas Livkovsky, now 76 years old, lives in the Polish town Rzepin, not far from the German border. The following is his report on what he experienced:
At University of Michigan forum
Historians criticize Goldhagen book
By Martin McLaughlin, 17 November 1997
At a forum held at the University of Michigan on November 8 an international panel of historians concurred that the bestselling book by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners, was a travesty of historiography.
Why did the Holocaust take place?
By David Walsh, 2 June 1997
More than any other trend of thought, Marxism insists on adopting a historical attitude to every phenomenon.
Anti-Semitism, Fascism & the Holocaust
A critical review of Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners
By David North, 17 April 1997
The following was given as a lecture by David North, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States, at Michigan State University in East Lansing.
Anti-Semitism, Fascism & the Holocaust
A critical review of Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners
By David North, 17 April 1997
The following was given as a lecture by David North, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States, at Michigan State University in East Lansing.
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