This talk addresses the post war meaning of the Holocaust for neo-fascist and Dirty War military perpetrators. Fascist ideology was made tangible in Argentina in the 1970s for perpetrators through a ritualized practice of torture and extermination that was rooted in the transcontextual memory of fascist violence and the Holocaust. Argentine perpetrators constantly reminded heir victims that torturing and killing them continued the global war of fascism.

Fderico Finchelstein is Professor of History at the New School for 
Social Research and Eugene Lang College in New York City. He is the author of five books on fascism, populism, Dirty Wars, the Holocaust and Jewish history in Latin America and Europe.His new book is: From Fascism to Populism in History (University of California Press, Spring 2017.)