A group of refugee German intellectuals, mostly Jewish, mainly Marxist, enjoyed a postwar reputation—unearned—for insight into the nature of Nazism and Nazi anti-Semitism.
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Misreading Hitler, and Much Else https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/uncategorized/2013/09/misreading-hitler-and-much-else/
About the author: Walter Laqueur is the author of, among other books, Weimar, A History of Terrorism, Fascism: Past, Present, Future, and The Dream that Failed: Reflections on the Soviet Union. His newest book, Putinism: Russia and Its Future with the West, was released in 2015 by Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s.