Nazism

Israel's latest war brought its increasingly fascist politics before a global audience. By Scott McConnell • August 6, 2014 Throughout the 1950s and 1960s and continuing through the present, the central issue in the study of European history was the rise of Nazism. Not the documenting of the facts of the long descent to the Holocaust, though this was essential to the enterprise. But the trying to understand how a country that was in many ways the most advanced in Europe could descend so far so fast.