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German Studies
Interviews with scholars of Germany about their new books.
April 7, 2026
Older Adults Learning English in Berlin
In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast Dr Hanna Torsh talks to Katharina Gensch (University of Hamburg) about her new paper "English lan…
March 31, 2026
The Defeat and Attrition of the 12. SS-Panzerdivision Hitlerjugend
Following the Normandy landings, Rommel rushed Heeresgruppe B reserves towards the coast in order to crush the bridgehead and drive the Allied forces …
March 23, 2026
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist by David Bather Woods An engaging biography of one of the most influenti…
March 23, 2026
Icon Dresden
Icon Dresden: Baroque City, Air War Symbol, Political Token (University of Michigan Press, 2026) by Dr. Susanne Vees-Gulani explores how memory and po…
March 22, 2026
Germany
Few countries are more haunted by the darker aspects of their history than Germany. Nazi crimes continue to cast a long shadow at home and abroad. Ger…
March 20, 2026
Why Barbarossa Failed
Why did Operation Barbarossa fail? For more than eight decades, historians have offered one dominant answer: Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Uni…
March 15, 2026
The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It
Examining everything from popular novels to politics, an investigation of persistent fascination with Nazis—and where it might take us. We live in an…
March 10, 2026
The Long Death of Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler has taken a long time to die, despite the lethal efficiency of the gun he put to his head in April 1945. Although eagerly anticipated aro…
March 5, 2026
The Einstein of Sex
More than a century ago, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, dubbed the "Einstein of Sex," grew famous (and infamous) for his liberating theory of sexual relativit…
March 3, 2026
Music Refuge
How can music change people’s lives? In Music Refuge: Living Asylum Through Music (Oxford UP, Press 2025) Ailbhe Kenny, an Associate Professor in Musi…
March 1, 2026
Articulating Difference
Drawing on a wide range of texts, from understudied ethnographic and scientific works to canonical literature and philosophy, Sophie Salvo uncovers th…
February 21, 2026
Victimhood Nationalism
Nationalism today depends on the perception of victimhood. The historical memory of past suffering endows nationalist movements with political legitim…
February 16, 2026
A German Jew's Triumph
Cindy Schweich Handler’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Redbook, The Huffington Post, and a host of other nat…
February 15, 2026
Lethal Elites
Lethal Elites: The Institutions and Professionals That Made the Holocaust Possible (Bloomsbury, 2025) is an eye-opening book highlights the role of el…
February 13, 2026
Nazi Anatomy Lessons
What if the tools that shaped your life’s work were rooted in unimaginable evil? In this haunting episode, Rabbi Marc Katz sits down with Dr. Howard …
January 31, 2026
Iron and Blood
German military history is typically viewed as an inexorable march to the rise of Prussia and the two world wars, the road paved by militarism and the…
January 30, 2026
The Colonial Way of War
The violence of colonial wars between 1890 and 1914 is often thought to have been uniquely shaped by the nature of each of the European empires. The C…
January 27, 2026
Walter Benjamin and the Critique of Political Economy
Walter Benjamin was a German-Jewish intellectual and philosopher associated with the Frankfurt School, who tragically died at 48 years old in 1940 as …
January 26, 2026
War of Shadows
As World War II raged in North Africa, General Erwin Rommel was guided by an uncanny sense of his enemies' plans and weaknesses. In the summer of 1942…
January 25, 2026
This Horrible Uncertainty
Through the diaries and personal papers of a German woman, Vera Conrad, This Horrible Uncertainty: A German Woman Writes War, 1939-1948 (Berghahn Book…