Dictators and their Publics

Return to War

Background Reading
Merriman, History of Modern Europe, vol. 2, pp. 1093-1156.

Discussion: 25-26 March 2009, Fighting Fascists
Students whose last names begin with I-Q must submit written answers to Reading Questions this week.
Benito Mussolini, "The Doctrine of Fascism" (1932) extract on-line; the full text is also available.

Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, “To be German is to be Strong” (1936), on-line.

Fritz Bennecke, ed., On the German People and their Living Space: Handbook for Training in the Hitler Youth (1937), Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 4.

Further Reading
William S. Allen, The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town, 1922-1945 (1984).

Hannah Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism (1951).

R.J.B. Bosworth, Mussolini's Italy: Life under the Fascist Dictatorship (2006).

Victoria DeGrazia, How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922-1945 (1993).

Helen Graham, The Spanish Republic at War, 1936-1939 (2002).

Julian Jackson, The Fall of France (2003).

Walter Laqueur, Fascism: Past, Present, Future (1996).

Kevin Passmore, Fascism: A Very Short Introduction (2002).

Herbert Southworth, Guernica! Guernica! : A Study of Journalism, Diplomacy, Propaganda, and History (1977).