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ANTI-‘FASCISM’

A vigorous debate is going on in Germany about a monument to the victims of “Fascism” to be erected in Hamburg by the noted Austrian sculptor Alfred Hrdlička. In point of fact, Fascism, a purely Italian movement, had no German victims. What the city elders of Hamburg and the sculptor have in mind are the victims of National Socialism, a term that is absolutely taboo in leftist circles.