Antifascism is usually described as either a political ideology of
activists and intellectuals confronting the dictatorships of Hitler
and Mussolini, or as a cynical tool that justified the Stalinist
expansion of communism in Europe. Andreas Agocs widens our
understanding of antifascism by placing it in the context of
twentieth-century movements of 'cultural renewal'. He explores the
concept of 'antifascist humanism', the attempt by communist and
liberal intellectuals and artists to heal the divisions of Nazism
by reviving the 'other Germany' of classical Weimar. This project
took intellectual shape in German exile communities in Europe and
Latin America during World War II and found its institutional
embodiment in the Cultural League for Democratic Renewal in
Soviet-occupied Berlin in 1945. During the emerging Cold War,
antifascist humanism's uneasy blend of twentieth-century mass
politics and cultural nationalism became the focal point of new
divisions in occupied Germany and the early German Democratic
Republic. This study traces German traditions of cultural renewal
from their beginnings in antifascist activism to their failure in
the emerging Cold War.
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