Fighting fascism: Americans in the Spanish civil war have a lesson for today | US news | The Guardian
Eighty years after the first Americans went to war against Nazi-backed fascists, a small group of historians trying to preserve the volunteers memory has found their services unexpectedly in demand.Why are people puzzled over the meaning of that word, fascism? asked Peter Carroll, a historian of the Spanish civil war at Stanford University. Do I think Donald Trump is Adolf Hitler? No. But there are patterns of contempt for opposition by political leaders that are as unacceptable and intolerable as National Socialism.Spain remembers: war veterans honoured Read moreFor decades, Carroll has worked with a nonprofit, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (Alba), whoch hosted reunions for the volunteers. As the survivors aged, the nonprofit turned to awarding human rights work, and more recently started a workshop for high school teachers on how to teach history in an age when politics feels inescapable.
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