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  • 5 - Fascism and Holocaust

  • Edited by Mark Roseman, Indiana University, Dan Stone, Royal Holloway, University of London
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
    Published online:
    16 May 2025
    Print publication:
    12 June 2025, pp 93-112

  • Summary

    The chapter opens with the challenge of connecting fascism to explanations of the Holocaust, given the many distinctive, or purportedly distinctive, elements of National Socialism, not least the radical character of its antisemitism. The chapter argues, however, that thinking about fascism in relation to the Holocaust has three main virtues. First, it prompts us to reconsider the boundaries and distinctiveness of both fascism and Holocaust. Secondly, it suggests that fascist ideology made some critical moves that helped make the Holocaust conceivable and possible. Finally, fascist taboo-breaking helped to create receptive audiences and collaborators across Europe, “catalysing, and radicalising a nexus of local eliminationist agencies.”