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The Return of “Euro-Nazism”
Nazism was never a “one off” circumstance, and has lurked in the darker corners of Europe for centuries.
Europe, some say, has been the birthplace of many of the worst mass ideological manifestations (“-isms”) ever created by the human race. Colonialism, feudalism, fascism, militarism and of course anti-semitism are all uniquely European inventions.
In fact, when the Jewish Austrian writer Theodor Herzl founded the modern Zionist movement in the 1800’s it was with the express purpose to find a Jewish homeland outside of Europe. For Herzl and the other Zionists, anti-semitism was so historically and culturally entrenched in European society that Jews would never be safe there.
But of course the most odious of all these European ideologies was NAZISM.
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