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The Unifying Element? European Socialism and Anti-Fascism, 1939–1945

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2016

JENS SPÄTH
JENS SPÄTH*
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Universität des Saarlandes, FR 3.4 Geschichte – Historisches Institut, Lehrstuhl für Neuere Geschichte und Landesgeschichte, Gebäude B 3 1, Raum 3.03, D-66123 Saarbrücken; [email protected]
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Abstract

Far too often studies in contemporary history have concentrated on national stories. By contrast, this article analyses wartime discourses about and practices against fascism in France, Germany and Italy in a comparative and – as far as possible – transnational perspective. By looking at individual biographies some general aspects of socialist anti-fascism, as well as similarities and differences within anti-fascism, shall be identified and start to fill the gap which Jacques Droz left in 1985 when he ended his Histoire de l'antifascisme en Europe with the outbreak of the Second World War. To visualise the transnational dimension of socialist anti-fascism both in discourse and practice different categories shall be considered. These include historical analyses and projects for the post-war order in letters, newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets and books, acts of solidarity like mutual aid networks set up by groups and institutions and forms of collaboration in resistance movements.

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Contemporary European History , Volume 25 , Special Issue 4: Transnational Anti-Fascism: Agents, Networks, Circulations , November 2016 , pp. 687 - 706
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87 Ollenhauer to Markscheffel, Hannover, 2 Apr. 1946, AdsD, Bestand Kurt Schumacher, Mappe 67.

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92 Roth was to intervene at the commemoration ceremony for Marx Dormoy on 29 July at Montélimar; see Boucher to Ernst Roth, Valence, 18 July 1945, AdsD, Nachlass Ernst Roth, Varia. Max Braun and other Saarland socialists were honoured by the first ordinary congress of the Sozialdemokratische Partei des Saarlands on 30 March 1946: Saarbrücken, Landesarchiv Saarbrücken, Nachlass Richard Kirn, Mappe 4.

93 See Carlé to Glauben, 27 Dec. 1945 concerning documents in order to prove the participation in the Résistance and in the French army, AdsD, Nachlass Franz Glauben, Mappe I; see also Willy Brandt to Kurt Schumacher, 13 Jan. 1946, AdsD, WBA, A5, Sign. 14.

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