Quote by Timothy Snyder

“The issue of fascism since 1945 is further clouded by polemical name calling. The far Right in Europe after 1945 is loudly and regularly…

— Robert O. Paxton

“It was characteristic of the rise of the Nazi movement in Germany and of the Communist movements in Europe after 1930 that they recruited…

— Hannah Arendt

“The further Fascism receded into history and the fewer visible fascists there were on display, the more self-proclaimed anti-fascists needed fascism to retain any…

— Douglas Murray

The Nazi Party was, in the early 1920s, but one among many nationalist and volkisch radical political groups. It was catapulted to prominence with…

— Mary Fulbrook

“Mussolini and Hitler became “right-wingers,” and the people who supposedly brought them to power became “conservatives.” The Left, then, became the glorious resisters of…

— Dinesh D'Souza

“Fascism and Nazism emerged as emotional, antirational appeals grounded in masculine promises of renewed national vigor.”

— Mark Bray

“Because enough people in both cases voluntarily extended their services to the new leaders, Nazis and communists alike realized that they could move quickly…

— Timothy Snyder

“The most interesting aspects of the story lie between the two extremes of coercion and popularity. It might be instructive to consider fascist regimes’…

— Robert O. Paxton

“As time went on, the Communists and the POUM wrote more bitterly about one another than about the Fascists.”

— George Orwell

“The disillusion among the rank-and-file Nazis, especially among the S.A. storm troopers, who formed the large core of Hitler’s mass movement, was great. Most…

— William L. Shirer

“When, then, the Social Democrat worker found himself in the economic crisis which degraded him to the status of a coolie, the development of…

— Wilhelm Reich

“Any democratic government, whether threatened by real or perceived enemies, can succumb to Fascism if its people permit the slow or precipitate undoing, by…

— W. Montgomery