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The host described Powell's Troubled Memory as an extraordinary story about a survivor of the Lotz ghetto whose testimony helped expose David Duke's Nazi past, linking American and European fascism. The book was presented as a compelling narrative of resistance.
And the third book is a book by Lawrence Powell called Troubled Memory and Levy, The Holocaust and David Duke's Louisiana. It's an extraordinary story about a woman who was part of the only whole fami...
— Episode: The Very American Roots of Trumpism
Episode: The Very American Roots of Trumpism
The host described Powell's Troubled Memory as an extraordinary story about a survivor of the Lotz ghetto whose testimony helped expose David Duke's Nazi past, linking American and European fascism. The book was presented as a compelling narrative of resistance.
And the third book is a book by Lawrence Powell called Troubled Memory and Levy, The Holocaust and David Duke's Louisiana. It's an extraordinary story about a woman who was part of the only whole family to make it out of the Lotz ghetto and they end up in New Orleans and when Duke runs for governor she plays an incredibly important role in outing his Nazi past and helping to undermine his claims to power so it kind of links fascism on both sides of the Atlantic with an incredibly inspiring and welltold story.