Showing posts with label Naziism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Naziism. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Why Does Hitler Still Cast a Shadow over the World? - BBC World Service

Apr 30, 2025 | It has been 80 years since Adolf Hitler, the leader of Germany and the Nazi Party during the Second World War, killed himself in a bunker in Berlin.

He and his policies led to the Holocaust, the worst genocide in history, and an atrocity so terrible that he is considered truly evil. Despite a concerted effort from Allied forces to eradicate Nazism, it has proved difficult to destroy an ideology. Far right politics is seeing a resurgence globally and, almost a century after his death, Hitler remains a notorious spectre in the modern consciousness.

But is history at risk of repeating itself? Or are the lessons learned from the mid-20th Century enough to keep fascism at bay?