Review: Jürgen Zimmerer, Germany’s History Wars - The New Fascism Syllabus Zimmerer, Jürgen. Germany’s History Wars: Contesting Memory and Identity Today. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025. On November 12, 2025, the German parliament accepted a new [...]

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Rita Maricocchi and Brian Quinn on Jürgen Zimmerer, Germany’s History Wars: Contesting Memory and Identity Today (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025).

An Open Letter in Defense of Academic Freedom and the Historian Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe - The New Fascism Syllabus We, the undersigned, protest against the state-sponsored defamatory attacks on the German-Polish Holocaust historian Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe and the ongoing campaign of intimidation against scholar...

See the open letter co-signed by over 300 scholars on the state-sponsored attacks against historian Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe. We stand against intimidation and for academic freedom.

#AcademicFreedom #History #Holocaust #Poland

A Century Later: A Renewed Open Letter Against the Return of Fascism - The New Fascism Syllabus On May 1st 1925, with Mussolini already in power, a group of Italian intellectuals publicly denounced Mussolini’s fascist regime in an open letter. The signatories [...]

Many of you will already know that a new anti-fascist letter has been penned, signed, and published around the world as of this morning. Here is the letter, along with a link to the over 400 signatories, on the New Fascism Syllabus' website:

I Shall Bear Witness – Victor Klemperer in His Time, and Ours - The New Fascism Syllabus Victor Klemperer’s diary is a remarkable testimony on life in Nazi Germany told from the perspective of someone whom the state sought to eradicate from the population—and it makes for chilling reading...

@adamblackler.bsky.social finds inspiration and a new urgency in I Shall Bear Witness – Victor Klemperer in His Time, and Ours.

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100 Years After Mussolini's Dictatorship, a Trumpian US Flirts With the Long Night of Authoritarianism | Common Dreams The comparisons between Mussolini's declaration of dictatorship in 1925 and Trump’s re-election are striking.

Dr. @brianjgriffith.bsky.social -- one of NFS' two co-curators -- has just published an OpEd on @commondreams.org that explores the legal and political parallels between Benito #Mussolini's declaration of #dictatorship in January 1925 and Donald J. #Trump's re-election as POTUS. See the link below.

Seeing, Hearing, and Writing History Differently: Queer Kinship after Fascism - The New Fascism Syll... It is a pleasure and privilege to read and reflect on such a rich, urgent, and ambitious book. Jennifer Evans’ The Queer Art of History: [...]

In his review of @jennifervevans.bsky.social's The Queer Art of History, Craig Griffiths explains that the study recalibrates our view of the queer and trans* past while acknowledging the complexities and inequalities that persisted after historical turning points.

Queer History that Surprises, Frustrates, Embarrasses, and Delights - The New Fascism Syllabus “Queer history has a problem with memory,” Jennifer Evans contends in her rich and bold monograph that encourages its readers to think, and to think [...]

In her review of @jennifervevans.bsky.social's The Queer Art of History, @ankahajkova.bsky.social explains that Evans challenges queer essentialism and uncovers complex narratives, like East German lesbians challenging the Stasi, offering insights into recent debates.

Roundtable: The Queer Art of History Archives - The New Fascism Syllabus From time to time, the New Fascism Syllabus will be hosting roundtable discussions centered around emerging historiographical contributions, questions, or issues. Featuring some of the leading voices ...

In recognition of Dr. Jennifer Evans' recently published monograph, The Queer Art of History (out on Duke Press), the NFS editorial team, along with Dr. Anna Hájková, organized a roundtable discussion among other scholars of German Queer Studies. Enjoy!