Enzo Traverso

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Enzo Traverso (born 1957) is a Italian historian living and working in France who has written on issues relating to the Holocaust and Totalitarianism. He is a professor of political science at the Jules Verne University of Picardy in France. His works include Understanding the Nazi Genocide: Marxism after Auschwitz, (Pluto, London, 1999) and The Origins of Nazi Violence, (New Press, New York, 2003).

In his youth, he was a militant in the Italian far left organization Potere Operaio. He is currently member of the French Trotskyist party Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire.

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• "Nazism’s roots in European culture - Production line of murder" in Le Monde diplomatique, February 2005