Fascism & Nazism

The first in-depth look at culture produced by women in Fascist Italy.Mothers of Invention was first published in 1995. Minnesota Archive Editions ...

In her examination of the culture of Italian fascism, Mabel Berezin focuses on how Mussolini's regime consciously constructed a nonliberal public s...

The leader's portrait, produced in a variety of media (statues, coins, billboards, posters, stamps), is a key instrument of propaganda in totalitar...

This book presents a unique collection of some of the most influential recent writing on vital aspects of Nazi Germany.

Tracing the social history of modern German Jews from the end of the 18th century up to the aftermath of World War II, Miriam Rürup follows their...

The history of National Socialism as movement and regime remains one of the most compelling and intensively studied aspects of twentieth-century hi...

'I was on the street and I was free – but what now?’This is the story of Lex Lesgever: a young Jewish boy who found himself alone on the streets of...

When Benito Mussolini proclaimed that "Cinema is the strongest weapon," he was telling only half the story. In reality, very few feature films duri...

This book is an examination of the everyday operations of the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police. How were the Gestapo able to detect the smallest sig...

When the African-American dancer Josephine Baker visited Berlin in 1925, she found it dazzling. "The city had a jewel-like sparkle," she said, "the...

The classic eye-witness account of Nazi Germany, by Hitler's Armaments Minister and right-hand man.'Inside the Third Reich is not only the most sig...

Federico Fellini remains the best known of the postwar Italian directors. This collection of essays brings Fellini criticism up to date, employing ...

Bringing together studies by art historians, historians, and political scientists, Fascist Visions explores the themes and paradigms that pervaded ...

Federico Fellini remains the best known of the postwar Italian directors. This collection of essays brings Fellini criticism up to date, employing ...

Volume 2 of this series of documents with commentary covers the domestic aspects of the regime between 1933 and 1939: the political stystem, the ec...

This landmark study, first published by Cornell University Press in 1966, shows how Hitler's elite army grew from a praetorian guard of barely 28,0...

The essays in this volume consider the involvement of business corporations and of individual businessmen in the politics of the 1930s and 1940s: i...

The biography of Franz Stangl, commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp - a classic and utterly compelling study of evilOnly four men comman...

Femininity in the form of the donna-crisi, or “crisis-woman,” was a fixture of fascist propaganda in the early 1930s. A uniquely Italian representa...

Fascism, Nazism, and Communism dominated the history of much of the twentieth century, yet comparatively little attention has focused on popular re...