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Is it Nazi?
A series of short, helpful essays explaining that yes, it probably is.
Welcome! My name is Brandy Schillace, and I am a historian and author. Most recently, I wrote a book called THE INTERMEDIARIES, a Weimar Story, which means I spent a lot of time researching the period leading up to the Nazi take-over and WWII. Fortuitous, it seems, since we are faced now with a LOT of news that suggests fascism is on the rise again. Many people feel that the USA is on the same path Germany once was, and that its leaders are following in the footsteps of the Nazi party. Naturally, not everyone agrees. Mainstream media has spent a lot of time arguing that things only *appear* Nazi (Elon Musk’s salute, for instance), and that our quick comparison is a knee jerk reaction. Others argue that comparing what we see now to the rhetoric preceding the Holocaust overplays it, and potentially overshadows the actual horrors of WWII. So I have decided to write a series of short, summary essays that take a look at the headlines to ask: Is it Nazi? I hope you will join me; I’ll try to put up a couple each week. If you would like to follow along for free (sans-paywall!), you can do that by signing up for my newsletter.
WHAT: Short (1000 word) essays about current events summarizing, historically, whether it deserves to be called “Nazi”
WHEN: Twice a week or more
