Nazis – ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY

Nuremberg, Covid, and Anthropology: Never Again

Today, August 20, 2022, marks the 75th anniversary of the end of the trials of medical professionals at Nuremberg. Central principles and fundamental rights were enshrined as a result of the trials, which were then encoded in international law, domestic laws, and the codes of ethics followed by institutional review boards in US universities, the […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Declaring Crime to be a Public Health Emergency: Trinidad & Tobago Out Front

When it should be that the declaration of a public health emergency is itself the crime. “There are efforts being made to ensure that countries respond in the way that we are responding here in Trinidad & Tobago….We are a bit out front on it”. These were the words of Dr. Keith Rowley, the Prime […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

From Hollywood to Hitler: Rethinking the Cultural Politics of Propaganda

What is propaganda? What does cinema reveal about the Third Reich and its people? What are German films about during the Third Reich? What do they reveal? And what are they hiding? What does cinema know that we don’t? What is it that Germans dreamed about? What does German cinema tell that we have forgotten? […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

On Duty for the CIA: German Nazis and Italian Fascists

Apart from employing German Nazi scientists, and adopting the methods, principles, and science of the Nazis in developing modern warfare, for what other purposes were Nazis sought after the end of World War II? How were Italian Fascists able to perpetuate their ideology and expand their networks after the US had occupied Italy, and particularly […]