STEFAN SABLIĆ

Address Unknown belongs among the great and irreplaceable texts on the Holocaust, like the Diary of Anne Frank (1947) and Szpilman's Pianist (1996), an unavoidable document which speaks about the creation and continuity of fascism as a new, little-known pestilence on the European political stage.

 Its contemporary revival underscores the continuing attraction of fascism as a theory that justifies systematic radicalism, violence, and hatred. The power and pull of this drama shows how fascism and the forces that led to the Holocaust have only changed their location and form of appearance, whether the expansion of skinhead and right-wing movements, in modern European societies, the nationalist isolationism of the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, or the failure of these communities to confront crimes their members committed during the war.