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Walter Benjamin

German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940)

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Which specific titles and authors were listed on the Nazi book-burning lists for Berlin May 10 1933?

The contemporary analyses and compiled lists agree that the Nazi book-burning in Berlin on May 10, 1933 targeted a broad swath of writers and titles deemed “un-German,” and that the operative list gui...

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What defines fascism and Nazism historically?

but is broadly identified as an authoritarian, ultranationalist political movement that subordinates individual rights to a mythic idea of the national community and rejects liberal democracy and soci...