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A brief history of Esperanto, the 135-year-old language of peace hated by Hitler and Stalin alike

  • Written by Joshua Holzer, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Westminster College
A brief history of Esperanto, the 135-year-old language of peace hated by Hitler and Stalin alikeAn Esperanto teacher instructs a class in a room with a painting of the language's creator on the wall.Janek Skarzynski/AFP via Getty Images

In the late 1800s, the city of Białystok – which was once Polish, then Prussian, then Russian, and is today again part of Poland – was a hub of diversity, with large numbers of Poles, Germans,...

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