National Socialism
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It follows the fortunes and travails of the Oppermann family in Berlin as upper-class Jews during the rise of National Socialism, a phenomenon they blithely dismiss until that’s no longer possible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
Prosecutors said the group planned to create a government "inspired by National Socialism" - the far-right totalitarian ideology associated with Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2024
Primo Levi himself said: “It is naïve, absurd, and historically false to believe that an infernal system such as National Socialism sanctifies its victims: on the contrary it degrades them, it makes them resemble itself.”
From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2022
As early as 1922, Wagner excerpts were played before Hitler’s speeches, one of which he delivered in 1923, at Bayreuth, asserting that National Socialism was “anchored in the music of Richard Wagner.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2020
It would take years for many Hitler Youth to digest the truth about National Socialism: They had served a mass murderer and, in so doing, had contributed to the deaths of millions of people.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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