Ullrich, a German historian and journalist for the Hamburg broadsheet Die Zeit, based his book on decades of research. Ullrich also notes both men’s talent at playing the media, making use of new technology and their propensity for stage effects. “You don’t match present predicaments to some sort of template of what fascism is or isn’t.”Schama is clear: Trump is obviously not Hitler. If historians are best placed to distinguish between illuminating and misleading historical analogies, how do they think history can help us and what is distinctive about the present? Jane Caplan, a history professor at Oxford University who has written about Trump and fascism, highlights the want of “dissenting voices against marketisation and neoliberalism.

Source: The Guardian December 01, 2016 13:17 UTC