Henk de Berg (born 1963 in Harderwijk, Netherlands) is a Dutch cultural theorist and a Professor of German at the University of Sheffield.
[1] Initially, Henk de Berg’s main research area was the sociology of literature.
His introductory book on classic psychoanalytic literary criticism received a Choice Outstanding Academic Titles award.
[4] The argument put forward by the book is firstly that the two men use similar rhetorical strategies [5] and secondly that while the problems faced by the Weimar Republic were more pronounced, it makes sense to draw parallels between the circumstances Hitler and Trump exploited to come to power (economic dislocation, dented national confidence, social division, male anxiety, loss of faith in the traditional political system, and an enabling conservative elite).
[6] By contrast, de Berg views the characterization of Trump as “a fascist” historically misleading and politically counterproductive.