During the Second World War, the Vichy government published many of the same antisemitic laws in Tunisia as it did in the metropole. But in Tunisia, the ‘Jewish Question’ also became a question of maintaining control over the French Empire…
British military intervention in Greece in December 1944, in support of the anti-communist forces in the country, elicited a significant reaction at home, from left-wing politicians and trade unions as well as by the press. Indeed, records of the Mass…
This article investigates Japanese New Order thinking in terms of the political and cultural debates sparked by the Italian aggression of Ethiopia (1935–6). Interpreting the war in light of Japan’s earlier conquest of Manchuria (1931), Jap…
This article analyzes the ordeal that became the ‘Louvain Library Controversy‘ in order to demonstrate competing visions of postwar memory and reconstruction that emerged in the 1920s. As a country trying to mediate between the claims of its lar…
The article offers a close reading of the numerous initiatives promoted by the Institute of Roman Studies, an institution operating in synergy with the political culture and imperial ambitions of the fascist regime by supporting and influencing its rh…
After the Second World War, Czechoslovakia expelled around three million Germans from the border region known as the Sudetenland. Close to two million Czechs and Slovaks moved from the country’s interior to settle the region. Though cut off from their…
This article contributes to the current debate on political religions presenting a case study: fascist educational policy from 1922 to 1943. The article is organized into four different parts: after a discussion of the major and most recent approaches…
The article deals with the ways in which the ‘cultural-entertainment activities’, organized by the Yugoslav government for Yugoslav economic emigrants in the West, were imbued with the patriotic propaganda and shaped by the socialist moder…
This article recovers a forgotten episode in the history of human rights: the 1944 ‘Declaration on Human Rights‘ sponsored by the American Jewish Committee. With an unprecedented media campaign and endorsements from ‘1300 distinguished Ame…
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