Mention of the Reading in Part I - https://youtu.be/Ha7xv0nU9xU?t=126
This is the first person account reading of Part II of Varieties of Fascism by Professor Eugen Weber. Reading 2A is the first published manifesto/program of the NSDAP which was p…
Mention of the Reading in Part I - https://youtu.be/Ha7xv0nU9xU?t=126
This is the first person account reading of Part II of Varieties of Fascism by Professor Eugen Weber. Reading 2A is the first published manifesto/program of the NSDAP which was published in 1920. At this period in time, the soon to be infamous Adolf Hitler was not in complete control of the party. Notable in this 25 part program is the early insistence that certain groups of people, notably Jews, were already blocked from being members of the nation. However, just as notable, is the softer tone of the earlier NDSAP program. Still radical in a comparative fashion, both considering its evolution and to our current time, the program is softer and belies only little of the radical and violent efforts of the party two decades later.
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In 1964, the world approached the twentieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Eugen Weber, a Romanian born, French-educated, British Veteran, and now American professor, sat down to take in the impact of socialism, fascism, and national socialism on the 20th-century world. Having served with the British during the Second World War, Eugen Weber was no stranger to the violent upheaval these ideologies had, and indeed are having.
In the Narrator's opinion, the compilation of this work is invaluable in a current atmosphere of domestic ideological cleavings. Writing nineteen years after the Second World War, a war which Professor Weber fought in, this work has topical adjacency to the real physical manifestations of such phenomena. Additionally, written in the early sixties, the work does not suffer the estrangement and misdefinition of the terms it seeks to educate on.
Legal disclaimer: The literary work narrated herein is governed in the U.S.A. by the Copyright Act 1909 (not 1976) and has since fallen into the realm of public domain. However, the narration and any associated images and recordings accomp..
