In 2017, we are frighteningly close to the horrors of 1939. As a scholar of modern German history, I´ve been working on a study of antisemitism in Germany and the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. What I saw unfold over the weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia and then at Bedminster, New Jersey gave me the horrible, sinking feeling that my book is going to need a new chapter. On Saturday, August 12, 2017, thousands of young Americans marched through the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia chanting hate-filled slogans like, `Blood and soil,` and `Jews will not replace us,` and carrying the swastika flag. They clashed with protesters and caused dozens of...
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