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Beware of single-factor explanations - they are mostly wrong. The German fascists were part of a

Any complete explanation for European fascism has to account for Mussolini, Franco, Hitler, Petain, Ford and the assorted nasty creeps that slithered out of the wreckage of the Austro-Hungarian empire. The Versailles and Trianon treaties were part of that, of course, but unlikely to be the whole story.

Which is not to say that the Versailles treaty may not have been the cause of the German hyperinflation...

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Tue May 18th, 2010 at 08:41:19 AM EST
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... pan-European movement of similarly nasty political forces.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Tue May 18th, 2010 at 08:42:17 AM EST
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Not unlike tody's EPP. In fact, made up of their grandparents and great-grandparents.

By laying out pros and cons we risk inducing people to join the debate, and losing control of a process that only we fully understand. - Alan Greenspan
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue May 18th, 2010 at 08:52:41 AM EST
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Couldn't happen now, of course.

Do please ignore the systematic demonisation of Muslims, please.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Tue May 18th, 2010 at 09:29:59 AM EST
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