Brills Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany by Helen Roche, Kyriakos Demetriou
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Overview: It is a truth widely acknowledged that fascist movements tend to glorify the national past of the country in which they arise. To name two examples alone, during the interwar years, Dutch fascists recalled the triumphant exploits of their maritime empire with pride, while Austrian fascists harked back to the heroic victories of the Habsburgs against the marauding Turks. Yet sometimes, fascist regimes would seek to resurrect a past even more ancient, and more glorious still; a phenomenon which Ernst Nolte (who fathered the study of comparative fascism long before he fathered the Historikerstreit) ascribed to the search for “distant models”—the turn towards Greece or Rome.
This phenomenon is particularly marked in the case of the two most powerful and most indisputably “fascist” regimes of all: Benito Mussolini’s Italy and Adolf Hitler’s Germany. Brills Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany explores how political propaganda constantly manipulated and reinvented the legacy of ancient Greece and Rome in order to create consensus and historical legitimation for the Fascist and National Socialist dictatorships.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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