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And American soldiers were the victims of these things in Spain, American volunteers. So this war was really a testing ground for Hitler.
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Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend.
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Because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.
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So people at the time really saw fascism not just as an evil but as an aggressive evil that seemed to be spreading.
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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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Hitler and Mussolini jumped in on the side of Francisco Franco and his Spanish nationalists, sent them vast amounts of military aid, airplanes, tanks and Mussolini sent 80,000 ground troops as well.
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All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II.
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To bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today’s globe.
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You’ve got politicians in power or vying for power who are taking tactics and elements of their appeal from the playbook of fascism.
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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.
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