Notes on Nazis, Fascism, and Tyranny

Once upon a time, my family lived next to a rabbi and his family.  When they moved out, my new neighbors told me that they found all the windows on the first floor had been nailed shut.  All my life, I’ve been reading about Nazis, Fascists, tyranny because I wanted to be forearmed and forewarned.  May these notes be useful to others as these ideas, these people — tyrants, Fascists, Nazis, authoritarians — never go away.


Unknown Auschwitz Satyagraha
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XAio8jsAoRE

Dorothy Thompson’s classic “Who Goes Nazi?”
https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/

Defying Hitler - the best book I’ve read on the rise of Nazism from the ground up
https://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2022/01/defying-hitler.html

The Voice of Memory: Primo Levi Interviews 1961-1987 - author of classic memoirs of the death camps
https://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-voice-of-memory-primo-levi.html

Into That Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder - interviews with a concentration camp commandant
https://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2016/12/into-that-darkness-from-mercy-killing.html

The Healing Wound: Experiences and Reflections on Germany, 1938 - 2001 by Gitta Sereny - essays on the war, Nazism, and the aftermath
https://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-healing-wound-experiences-and.html

Notes on The Language of the Third Reich - a German-Jewish philologist who lived through the war in Germany examines the language used
https://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2018/08/notes-on-language-of-third-reich.html

Quotes from On Hitler’s Mein Kampf:  The Poetics of the Third Reich - an examination of the concepts and language of Hitler himself
https://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2024/06/quotes-from-on-hitlers-mein-kampf.html

The Mass Psychology of Fascism
https://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2024/07/from-mass-psychology-of-fascism.html

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements - Eric Hoffer’s classic on mass movements
https://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-true-believer-thoughts-on-nature-of.html

Every Man Dies Alone - a novel of a small acts of resistance under the Nazi regime
https://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2018/10/every-man-dies-alone.html

Friendly Fascism - a warning about the slow, soft, and steady approach of authoritarianism
https://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2023/01/friendly-fascism.html

Sawdust Caesar:  That Mussolini Lip - the first USAmerican biography of Mussolini by George Seldes who left Italy because Mussolini was trying to kill him
https://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2015/10/sawdust-caesar.html

First day of tyranny: Margaret Atwood - from The Handmaid’s Tale
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2006/6/23/221551/- 

First day of tyranny: Sebastian Haffner - the reality comes home, from Defying Hitler
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2006/6/24/221747/- 

First (and more) day(s) of tyranny: Sinclair Lewis - from It Can’t Happen Here
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2006/11/3/265848/-