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5 unusual facts about George Mosse


Ernst Nolte

Mosse, George Review of Three Faces of Fascism: Action Française, Italian Fascism, National Socialism pp.

George Mosse

Mosse attended the Quaker Bootham School in York, England, whose teachers began to stimulate his intellectual curiosity, and where, according to his autobiography, he became aware of his homosexuality.

Critics pointed out that he had made Lord Chief Justice George Coke, the chief character of his book The Struggle for Sovereignty in England (1950), into a liberal long before liberalism had come into existence.

At Cambridge he began to get interested in historical scholarship, attending lectures by amongst others G. M. Trevelyan and Helen Maude Cam.

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George Mosse, German-born American left-wing Jewish historian of fascism


Fascism In Its Epoch

In reviews by, among others, Klaus Epstein, Hajo Holborn, James Joll, Walter Laqueur, George Mosse, Wolfgang Sauer, Fritz Stern and Eugen Weber, this masterly work was hailed as a very great book.


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