The book “Fascists of the World, Unite? A History of Fascist Internationalism in the 1930s” has been published by De Gruyter this summer. The monograph is based on a dissertation that Martin Kristoffer Hamre completed at the Graduate School of Global Intellectual History at the Freie Universität Berlin last year, under the supervision of Margrit Pernau and Sebastian Conrad.

Martin Hamre will present and discuss the book at the Global History Colloquium WS 25-26 on 12 January 2026, 16:15-17:45 (in person), FU Berlin, FMI, Room A336, Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin

 

About the book:

Fascists of the World, Unite? A History of Fascist Internationalism in the 1930s analyzes the ideas and forms of international cooperation between Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and fascist movements from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Ireland, and Britain. The study examines how fascists attempted to unite across borders by forming international organizations and networks, hosting conferences and exhibitions, disseminating multilingual publications, and exchanging propaganda. Their transnational cooperation was fuelled by shared ideas of ultranationalism, anti-liberalism, anti-communism, antisemitism, racism, white supremacism, and Europeanism. The book argues that fascist internationalism, marked by contradictions, limitations, and an Italo-German rivalry, emerged in the 1930s as a counter-reaction to liberal and communist internationalism. The epilogue discusses reverberations in the Second World War and the postwar period and outlines the relevance of this history for understanding contemporary forms of far-right internationalism.

For more information about the book, see here.