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Article: The lure of the iron fist;BY CHARLES TOWNSHEND FASCISM: A History by Roger Eatwell, Chatto pounds 20
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 13, 1995
- Author:
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IT is possible to write bad books about fascism, but it should
be hard to write a dull one. No political spectre haunts our
century with such spine-chilling terror. Fascism was the great
trauma of modernity. The 19th century's faith in the steady march
of progress and peace was brutally shattered by an irruption of
ostentatious violence, deliberate irrationality and murderous
intolerance. The thoughtful bourgeois was replaced by the
instinctual "new man", Hitler's tiger-eyed "blond beast". In the
most ideological and genocidal of total wars, 55 million people
died.
At least the irruption was fairly short-lived. The "thousand
year Reich" barely survived a decade. Mussolini and Hitler ...
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