Dan Stone

Dan Stone is Professor of Modern History, Royal Holloway, University of London and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute. His most recent book is Nazism, the Holocaust and Modern Europe: Challenging Histories (Bloomsbury, 2018).

Black people are tired of explaining racism, but why are white people still not speaking out?

For white people to stay silent and do nothing is to remain complicit in the racist structures that one claims to want to change.

By Dan Stone

/ 7 Jul 2020

Black people are tired of explaining racism, but why are white people still not speaking out?

The legacy of Wannsee on today’s radical right

Contemporary ideas of the ‘great replacement’ of the white population echo those that led to the Holocaust.

By Dan Stone

/ 28 Jan 2020

The legacy of Wannsee on today’s radical right

A pan-European radical right – contradiction in terms?

The vision of a fascist Europe proved to be a chimera. Today’s watchers of the radical right must hope that things will be no different when the heirs of ‘classic fascism’ meet in Milan next week.

By Dan Stone

/ 10 Apr 2019

A pan-European radical right – contradiction in terms?

The Kindertransport was controversial too – it teaches us that hostility can be overcome

Eighty years after the Kindertransport, politicization of the supposed threats to western ways of life represented by refugees have become commonplace.

By Dan Stone

/ 21 Nov 2018