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Article: Anti-'fascism.' (why national socialism is not fascism)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- January 30, 1987
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ANTI-"FASCISM'
AVIGOROUS DEBATE is going on inGermany about a monument to the victims of "Fascism' to be erected in Hamburg by the noted Austrian sculptor Alfred Hrdlicka. In point of fact, Fascism, a purely Italian movement, had no German victims. What the city elders of Hamburg and the sculptor have in mind are the victims of National Socialism, a term that is absolutely taboo in leftist circles.
To be sure, during the two years thatthe Ribbentrop-Molotov pact was in effect, the Soviet press loyally spoke of "National Socialism'; but after the Germans invaded the USSR in June 1941, the Soviets started referring to their
German counterparts as ...