May 30, 2018 – By now, most Americans who follow the news have heard about Donald Trump’s description of illegal immigrants as “animals.” The comment elicited a great deal of outrage and condemnation—and rightfully so. Here was the President of the United States publicly dehumanizing an entire group of people. (See below for a fuller […]
Richard E. Frankel, History News Network
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Richard E. Frankel: What Does it Mean to Carry the Swastika Flag?
Aug. 16, 2017 – Richard E. Frankel, Associate Professor of Modern German History at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, is the author of Bismarck’s Shadow: The Cult of Leadership and the Transformation of the German Right, 1898-1945 . As a scholar of modern German history, I’ve been working on a study of antisemitism in Germany and […]