by Tom Hogan | Jan 19, 2024 | Political History, The Catholic Church, The Holocaust
There’s an unwritten rule among those of us who teach Holocaust Studies: never equate the Holocaust or Hitler with anything or anyone. They are, by their very natures, sui generis. Donald Trump and the MAGA movement are forcing many of us to abandon that rule. This...
by Tom Hogan | Dec 1, 2023 | Political History
When I’m in the US, I’m a supporter of Israel. When I’m in Israel, I’m a supporter of the Palestinians. Let me explain. As someone who has taught Genocide Studies for a living, and who is neither Jewish nor Muslim, I’m watching the events in Gaza unfold with personal...
by Tom Hogan | Jul 21, 2022 | Political History, The Holocaust
Jews are vermin—a physical threat to our society that needs to be exterminated. (Nazi propaganda drilled into the everyday German during the 30s.) The U.S. government, media and financial worlds are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a...
by Tom Hogan | Aug 17, 2021 | The Holocaust, Political History, Teaching
I spent my elementary school years in post-WW II Germany. Though my father was US Air Force, we lived off-base in a German village. The crowd was a combination of American and German kids—we taught them baseball, they taught us soccer. Though the war had been over for...
by Tom Hogan | Jul 27, 2021 | Political History, The Holocaust
Today, as we grapple with the lessons of January 6 and begin to assess the actions and governing philosophies of the past administration, for historians the the similarities between Nazi Germany and America during the Trump era and its aftermath are too striking to be...
