Preface Introduction: What is Anti-Fascism? Its Values, its Strengths, its Diversities Jože Pirjevec, Egon Pelikan, and Sabrina P. Ramet   PART I. Anti-Fascism in Fascist Italiy's Borderlands Chapter 1. Hate Speech Jože Pirjevec  Chapter 2. Comparison of Fascist and national defense discourse Vesna Mikolič Chapter 3. Fascism, Anti-fascism, and Ethnic Engineering in the Former Austrian Littoral Borut Klabjan Chapter 4. Persevering on the Ramparts of the Nation: The Anti-fascism of Educated Women, Feminists, and Activists in the Littoral in the 1920s Marta Verginella  Chapter 5. The anti-fascism of the Slovenian and Croatian Clergy in the Julian March during the Interwar Period – A View from the Vatican Egon Pelikan  PART II. The Diversity of Anti-Fascism Chapter 6. The Anti-fascism of Hans & Sophie Scholl: Intellectual Sources of the White Rose Sabrina P. Ramet and Christine M. Hassenstab Chapter 7. The Committee against Neofascism and Racial Prejudices: Nordic Anti-Fascist Organizing and International Solidarity in the 1960s Pontus Järvstad Chapter 8. Anti-fascism in the land of holy water blessed by the swastika: The case of the Slovak State Marek Syrný and Anton Hruboň  Chapter 9. Mussolini, Vilfan and the Slovenian minority Gianfranco Cresciani  Chapter 10. From the Bauhaus to Buchenwald and to Berlin: Anti-fascism and Career in the Life of Franz Ehrlich Klaus Tragbar PART III. Anti-Fascism as a Legitimating Ideology Chapter 11. Passing the Torch: The Challenges of Anti-fascist Memory Transmission through Youth Ritual and Commemoration in the GDR Catherine J. Plum Chapter 12. Memory Practices in Slovenia through the Lens of Public Opinion Vida Rožac Darovec Chapter 13. A Note about the Collective Memory of Anti-Fascism since World War Two and its Revision Božo Repe  Chapter 14. A Dire Warning to All Ethnic Minorities in Europe? Fascist Repression in South Tyrol and the Formation of Swedish-Speaking Anti-fascism in Finland Kasper Braskén  Chapter 15. Maritime Communists Against Fascism and in Defense of the USSR: Transnational Anti-fascism in a Danish Perspective, 1933-1938 Jesper Jørgensen  Afterword: “Are you a communist? No, I am an anti-fascist” Nigel Copsey About the authors For further reading Index of Names

“Timely and original, this edited volume brings together a combination of thoughtful and well-crafted articles. Many of the case studies and micro-histories of Italy, Slovenia, Germany, Denmark, Slovakia, and Finland cast new light on anti-fascism’s important role. This volume is essential reading for all scholars who care about the past and the future of Central Europe.”