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Everyone Was Fighting Fascism. Why Couldn’t They Get Along?

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By Kevin Peraino
| The New York Times Verified
Everyone Was Fighting Fascism. Why Couldn’t They Get Along? In “A Shadow Over the World,” William I. Hitchcock shows how the early struggle against totalitarianism was rife with contradictions. Members of the Young People’s Socialist League of St. Louis at a protest in Missouri in the 1930s.Credit...Keystone/Getty Images Kevin Peraino is the author, most recently, of “A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949.” Sept. 12, 2026, 5:00 a.m. ET A SHADOW OVER THE WORLD: Franklin D.
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With the Third Reich at War, Most Berliners Just Carried On

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By Kevin Peraino
| Portside
Throughout the war years, Berliners turned looking away into an art form. They distracted themselves with movies and concerts and fashion shows. Some sought consolation in the supply of fine wines that had been liberated by the Germans from France; others found a way to wrangle rationed coffee and cakes. “For the right price, you can get anything you want,” the author Erich Kästner told his diary in the winter of 1941.
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La cara oculta de Berlín durante la segunda guerra mundial: arte, fiestas y supervivencia

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By Kevin Peraino
| Infobae Verified
A los autócratas les gusta ser amados. En los primeros días de la invasión nazi a Polonia en 1939, los propagandistas alemanes alardeaban sobre la “apasionada devoción” de los berlineses por su Führer. Sin embargo, observadores atentos notaron una apatía inesperada que se asentó sobre la capital. El periodista estadounidense William Shirer, radicado en Berlín, reportó que no presenció “ninguna emoción, ningún hurra, ningún aplauso”. Ni siquiera detectó odio hacia los enemigos británicos y franceses.
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