Consenso e responsabilità nella Germania nazista. Intervista a Enzo Collotti

Abstract

In this recent interview, Enzo Collotti, who is one of the major historians of Nazism, discusses some of the pivotal and still controversial issues of Nazism and of its incubation during the years of the Weimar Republic. The consent of large part of population, the presence of terror, the feeling of community, the ethical problem coupled with the issues of responsibility and law, and also anti-Semitism and anti-bolshevism that were rooted in Germany: these are only some of the themes at the center of the reflections of Collotti who restates the need of continuing to try to understand and explain what has happened in Germany and in Europe in the twelve years of National Socialist regime. In his conclusions, Collotti emphasizes the actuality of the themes at the center of the historiography of Nazi Germany.