Belonging

Jill Holter Jill Holter

Friendships in the Time of Fascism

Can friendships survive fascism? We could go back to 1930s Germany and ask how that went. Guessing there were plenty of families who split over the rise of a fascist dictator like Hitler, and whether or not the “final solution” was really about exterminating Jews or just maybe only re-sorting society in a different way. Neighbor against neighbor, friend against friend, husbands and wives and brothers all facing down the choice to fight, hide, help hide, flee, or just turn a blind eye and hope it all ended soon enough.

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