Genocide and Fascism

Aristotle Kallis is Professor of Modern/Contemporary History, Department of History, Lancaster University UK. His publications include National Socialist Propaganda and the Second World War (2005) and The Fascism Reader (2003), as well as articles and essays on the history of fascism, genocide, and propaganda.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Main Concepts: Fascism, Nation-statism, Eliminationism and ‘Fascist Agency’ Part A – The Overlapping Circles of Nationalism and Race: Constructing ‘Other-ness’ and Rehearsing EliminationChapter 1 - Identity and ‘Other-Ness’: From Nationalism to the Elimination of ‘Others’ Chapter 2 – ‘Race’, ‘Nation’ and the ‘Internal Enemy’Part B – ‘Rebirth’ and ‘Cleansing’: Fascist Ideology and the ‘Licence to Hate’ Chapter 3 - The Fascist Synthesis: ‘Rebirth’, ‘Cleansing’ and the ‘Ideal Nation-State’ Chapter 4 - Imagining Elimination: Fascist Ideologies, the Construction of the ‘Other’ and the ‘Licence to Hate’ Part C – National Socialism: The ‘Uniqueness’ of Synthesis and ImplementationChapter 5 - The ‘Unique’ German Case: Long-Term Trends and NS Agency Chapter 6 - The Radicalisation of the NS Project of Elimination and the ‘Licence to Kill’ Part D – Genocide, Agency, and ‘License’ in the NS ‘New Order’ (1939-45)Chapter 7 - National Eliminationist Projects and the Emergence of The NS ‘Agentic Order’ Chapter 8 - The Fascist State as ‘Agent’: Collaborationism and Genocide Chapter 9 - Fascist Disciples as ‘Agents’: The ‘Fifth Column’ of the NS New Order Chapter 10 - ‘Licence to Kill’ and ‘Ordinary People’: The ‘Carnival’ of Eliminationist Violence ConclusionsNotes Bibliography Index