German Studies

October 21, 2026

Defeat at the Dnepr - The XLVIII Panzerkorps Counterattack at Kiev, November 1943

In late 1943, the German Army on the Eastern Front was in dire straits. Its southern army group had been pushed out of eastern Ukraine, and on 6 Novem…

October 16, 2026

S15 E1: Governing Islam in Austria and Germany, with Farid Hafez, hosted by Amina Easat-Daas and Claudia Radiven

In this episode, hosts Claudia Radiven and Amina Easat-Daas were joined by Farid Hafez to discuss his most recently published book Governing Islam in …

October 15, 2026

Racism and Antiracism in Divided Germany

Racism and Antiracism in Divided Germany (Cornell UP, 2026) addresses how racism expresses itself and what it means to be antiracist by tracing the hi…

October 8, 2026

A Pacific Power

Before the First World War Germany was a global empire with colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Annexed to this empire in 1900 was Samoa, a thr…

October 2, 2026

Into the Reich

Enriched by extraordinary first-hand accounts, Prit Buttar's Into the Reich: The Red Army’s Advance to the Oder in 1945 (Osprey Publishing, 2025) is a…

September 30, 2026

Operation Sparrow

Historians have always known that the success of the Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day in June 1944 depended on deceiving the Germans about where t…

September 18, 2026

Through the Roof

Housing is the defining issue of our time, driving a persistent affordability crisis, financial instability, and economic inequality. Alexander Reisen…

September 11, 2026

They Shall Not See The Dawn

May 1945. The Reich is in ruins. Hitler is dead. Yet for the US Army’s Counter Intelligence Corps, the real war has just begun.  They Shall Not See t…

September 5, 2026

Holocaust Migration in German Jewish Literatures

In Holocaust Migration in German Jewish Literatures (Cambridge UP, 2026), analysing the past two decades of literature on Holocaust memory and migrati…

August 20, 2026

The Making of Modern Eating

Nineteenth-century Germany invented the way we eat. Women experimenting in households, French chefs fleeing guillotines, and one of the most rapid…

July 28, 2026

On Who Blew Up Nord Stream

The September, 2022 attack on the Nord Stream pipelines transporting Russian gas to Germany was perhaps the greatest single act of sabotage in modern …

July 17, 2026

The Devil's Castle

The Devil’s Castle: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry's Troubled History Reverberates Today (Catapult, 2025) delves into the forgotten his…

July 16, 2026

Survival at Treblinka

On August 2, 1943, prisoners at the Nazi extermination camp Treblinka, located in occupied Poland, launched an uprising against their captors, during …

June 17, 2026

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Ingrid Piller speaks with Frank Stahnisch, Professor of the History of Medicine and Health Care a…

June 16, 2026

Bukovina

Bukovina, when it has existed on official maps, has always fit uneasily among its neighbors. The region is now divided between Romania and Ukraine but…

June 9, 2026

Out of the Sky

Was it one of the war’s most memorable feats of valor or an act of desperation, even madness? In Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe…

June 7, 2026

The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau

The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau examines Auschwitz-Birkenau as both a site and a symbol of Nazi genocide. Scholars from a range of discip…

June 3, 2026

Housing Policy At An Expensive Dead End

If governments provide financial support for affordable housing, should they provide support for inhabitants directly, or rather for the construction …

May 30, 2026

The Filthiest Village in Europe

The Filthiest Village in Europe: Grassroots Ecology and the Collapse of East Germany (Cornell University Press, 2026) traces how a community shrouded …

May 24, 2026

Nightberries

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Elina Penner about her translated novel, Nightberries (CMU Press, 2026, translated by Bradley Sch…