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
International music history in particular can make an important contribution to a critical assessment of Austria’s role in National Socialism, World War II and the Holocaust.
From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2022
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
Over the years, the brother and sister grew deeply disillusioned with National Socialism.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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