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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
fascism Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultra-nationalist political ideology and movement,: "extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy an ...
, as well as
propaganda in Nazi Germany The propaganda used by the German Nazi Party in the years leading up to and during Adolf Hitler's dictatorship of Germany from 1933 to 1945 was a crucial instrument for acquiring and maintaining power, and for the implementation of Nazi policie ...
. He is an author and editor of several books on the subject of fascism and
totalitarianism Totalitarianism is a form of government and a political system that prohibits all opposition parties, outlaws individual and group opposition to the state and its claims, and exercises an extremely high if not complete degree of control and regu ...
, including ''Genocide and Fascism: The Eliminationist Drive in Fascist Europe'' (2009). His 2005 book, ''Nazi Propaganda and the Second World War'', deals with the subjects of
Nazi propaganda The propaganda used by the German Nazi Party in the years leading up to and during Adolf Hitler's dictatorship of Germany from 1933 to 1945 was a crucial instrument for acquiring and maintaining power, and for the implementation of Nazi polici ...
and the
Wehrmacht Propaganda Troops Propaganda Troops (german: Wehrmachtpropaganda, abbreviated as ') was a branch of service of the and the of Nazi Germany during World War II. Subordinated to the High Command of the (the '), its function was to produce and disseminate propagan ...
.


Education and career

Kallis has taught history at the
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,
University of Bristol , mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'') , established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter , type ...
and Lancaster University. In 2016, he was appointed as a professor of history at
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. He is a contributor to the seminal series ''
Germany and the Second World War ''Germany and the Second World War'' (german: Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg) is a 12,000-page, 13-volume work published by the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (DVA), that has taken academics from the military history centre of the German ...
'' from the Military History Research Office (MGFA), where he covers the mobilisation of the German home front and
Nazi propaganda The propaganda used by the German Nazi Party in the years leading up to and during Adolf Hitler's dictatorship of Germany from 1933 to 1945 was a crucial instrument for acquiring and maintaining power, and for the implementation of Nazi polici ...
.


''Genocide and Fascism: The Eliminationist Drive in Fascist Europe''

Kallis's ''Genocide and Fascism: The Eliminationist Drive in Fascist Europe'' focuses on
National Socialism Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Naz ...
as the key driver of the most radical outcome, that transformed the "eliminationist" policies into genocide in the service of the desired homogeneous nation-state. A review at
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finds, that although the author still sees parallels between fascism and Nazism,
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":
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''.
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. With António Costa Pinto . *2014: ''The Third Rome, 1922-1943: The Making of the Fascist Capital''. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. . *2009: ''Genocide and Fascism: The Eliminationist Drive in Fascist Europe''. New York:
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. . *2007: ''Nazi Propaganda and the Second World War''. Palgrave-Macmillan. . *2003: ''The Fascism Reader''. London: Routledge. *2000:
Fascist Ideology: Territory and Expansionism in Italy and Germany 1922−1945
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Notes


References

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External links


Book Review: ''The Third Rome, 1922–1943: The Making of the Fascist Capital'' by Aristotle Kallis
via ''
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