History teaches us

02.September 2026 David D. Pokrajac

Bright theater in a dark city

The German and collaborationist authorities wanted to show life under occupation as a renewed everyday life: pubs are open, the radio is playing, halls are full, people are laughing. While Jews and Roma were taken away and killed, and hostages, real and would-be communists were shot, newspapers wrote about "cheerfulness", "optimism" and crowded auditoriums. Laughter could become a backdrop to a normality that was not there

Radical right party Alternative for Germany (AfD)

Germany

30.June 2025 Hans Pfeiffer (DW)

Hitler's return to Germany

The authorities are worried: more and more young people in Germany are becoming radicalized. In many East German regions, Hitler and the swastika are no longer a provocation – for example in Dessau

Column

10.November 2023 Ivan Ivanji

Kristallnacht anniversary: ​​Never again?

85 years ago, on the night of November 10, 1938, around 1300 Jews were killed throughout Germany, around 30.000 were arrested or deported to concentration camps, and 1406 Jewish temples and organizations were burned. The fire services were ordered to intervene only if the fire threatens to spread to wider areas, and the police not to interfere. Several thousand shops owned by Jews were broken into and stolen. It was the beginning of the holocaust

Austrija

26.July 2023 JH

Braunau on the Inn: Arrested for Nazi tattoos

A man in Adolf Hitler's hometown appeared at a public bath with Nazi tattoos. He was arrested, a criminal complaint was filed against him, and he faces from one to ten years in prison

I remember

30.November 2021 Ivan Ivanji

What is fascism to whom: Assault party squads

For his personal protection and for the sake of crushing all movements that rebelled against his rise, Hitler founded a paramilitary organization called the SA (Sturmabteilung), a kind of party assault squad

Speech culture

24.April 2019. Ivan Ivanji

Fascism and our time

In Serbia, the term fascism has turned into a swear word that should disqualify political opponents. It is an ignorant and irresponsible abuse of a phenomenon that tragically marked the 20th century