Bernard Wasserstein

Bernard Wasserstein (born 22 January 1948 in London) is a British historian.

• We should not, however, fall into the common error of imputing a false parallelism between the two great warrior ideologies.
  • About Nazism and Stalinism. Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in our Time. Oxford University Press. 2009. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-19-162251-9. 

• Nazism, for all its revolutionary jargon, represented in its essence a reaction against the nine-teenth-century faith in human progress. It was an attempt to seize history by the collar and frog-march it in a direction determined primaly by the selfish interests and obsessive beliefs of those in power. From the outset it wan an anti-intellectual movement, offering its adherents the spurious solidarity of the street gang and the prospecive enjoyment of stolen booty.
  • Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in our Time. Oxford University Press. 2009. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-19-162251-9. 

• University of Chicago Department of History page on Wasserstein
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