Alexander Neu examines selective antifascism in politics and media

In an analysis by Alexander Neu, the concept of selective antifascism is explored within the context of European history and modern political discourse. The text notes a disparity in how historical atrocities are memorialized, observing that the fascist war of annihilation in the East, which resulted in approximately 27 million Soviet casualties, receives less media and political attention than the Holocaust.

Neu also addresses the perception of a distinction between different types of Nazi perpetrators. While German National Socialism is identified as an extreme form of human contempt based on racial hierarchy, the author points out that various European regimes—including Vichy France, Mussolini’s Italy, Franco’s Spain, and the Ustashe in Croatia—also featured collaborators and sympathizers of fascist ideologies.