This book investigates how fascism - as an ideology and
political praxis - reconfigured the ideological, political, and
moral landscape of interwar Europe, generating an atmosphere of
extreme 'license' that facilitated the leap into eliminationist
violence. It demonstrates how fascist ideology linked the prospect
of violent 'cleansing' to utopias of national/racial regeneration,
thus encouraging and legitimizing targeted hatred against
particular 'others'. It also shows how the diffusion and
internationalization of fascism in the 1930s produced a sense of a
revolutionary new beginning and created a transnational fascist
'new order' in which Nazi Germany came to occupy a potent position
of authority. The book analyzes how the eliminationist initiative
and precedent of Nazi Germany became a second 'license' that
empowered fascist regimes across Europe to embark on their own
eliminationist projects with diminished accountability. Finally, it
examines how this 'license' - enhanced by the actions of fascists
and the collapse of order caused by World War Two - released
individuals and communities from the burden of legal and moral
accountability, turning them into accomplishes in the most wide,
brutal, and devastating genocidal campaign that the continent had
ever experienced.
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