Bernard Wasserstein

Bernard Wasserstein (born 22 January 1948 in London) is a British historian. Quotes We should not, however, fall into the common error of imputing a false parallelism between the two great warrior ideologies. About Nazism and Stalinism. Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in our Time 2009 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-162251-9 https://books.google.com/books?id=XicFgasYzWQC&pg=PA203 203 Nazism, for all its revolutionary jargon, represented in its essence a reaction against the nine-teenth-century faith in human progress. It was an attempt to seize history by the collar and frog-march it in a direction determined primaly by the selfish interests and obsessive beliefs of those in power. From the outset it wan an anti-intellectual movement, offering its adherents the spurious solidarity of the street gang and the prospecive enjoyment of stolen booty. Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in our Time 2009 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-162251-9 https://books.google.com/books?id=XicFgasYzWQC&pg=PA244 203 External links University of Chicago Department of History page on Wasserstein University of Chicago News profile of Wasserstein Category:1948 births Category:Living people Category:Jews from the United Kingdom Category:Academics from England Category:Historians from England Category:People from London Category:University of Oxford alumni