Aristotle Kallis
Aristotle Kallis | |
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| Born | 1970 (age 53–54) United Kingdom |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, author, editor |
| Academic work | |
| Era | 20th century |
| Institutions | Keele University |
| Main interests | Modern European history History of fascism Modern propaganda Totalitarianism |
| Notable works | Germany and the Second World War, vol. IX/II |
Aristotle Kallis (born 1970) is a British historian who specialises in modern European history, with an emphasis on the study of inter-war German and Italian
Education and career
Kallis has taught history at the
Genocide and Fascism: The Eliminationist Drive in Fascist Europe
Kallis's Genocide and Fascism: The Eliminationist Drive in Fascist Europe focuses on
Kallis concedes Nazism's unique synthesis, which joined the obsession with racial purity, the desirability of internal cleansing and territorial expansion to realize the "rebirth of the nation," and, finally, the radicalization of the technocratic social engineering of experts in fields ranging from biomedicine to demographics. (...) The massive effort to Germanize the East through the transfer or decimation of populations transformed the regime's "license to hate" into a "license to kill" when the difficulties of managing expansionism unleashed the ambitions of thousands of agents in the field to "solve" the problem in the most radical way possible.
The review goes on to praise the book for "the precision with which Kallis analyzes the movement from thoughts about eliminating an 'other' to their actualization":[3]
The book is particularly effective in its discussion of the participation of fascist movements in occupied Europe, puppet governments, or governments otherwise allied with Nazi Germany, and countless ordinary people in the German East who availed themselves of the opportunity to act on an antisemitism that decades of upheaval had exacerbated.
Selected works
- 2014: Rethinking Fascism and Dictatorship in Europe. ISBN 9781137384409.
- 2014: The Third Rome, 1922–1943: The Making of the Fascist Capital. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0230283992.
- 2009: Genocide and Fascism: The Eliminationist Drive in Fascist Europe. New York: ISBN 978-0-415-33960-5.
- 2007: Nazi Propaganda and the Second World War. Palgrave-Macmillan. ISBN 978-0230546813.
- 2003: The Fascism Reader. London: Routledge.
- 2000: Fascist Ideology: Territory and Expansionism in Italy and Germany 1922−1945
Notes
References
- Baranowski, Shelley O. (2009). "Fascism, Totalitarianism, and Beyond: Recent Perspectives on the Twentieth-Century Dictatorships". H-Net. Retrieved December 22, 2016.
- "Profile". Keele University. 2016. Retrieved December 22, 2016.
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External links
- Book Review: The Third Rome, 1922–1943: The Making of the Fascist Capital by Aristotle Kallis, via The Journal of Modern History
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