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Peter Fritzsche, “Hitler’s First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich” (Basic Books, 2020)

Peter A. Fritzsche
Hitler's First Hundred Days
When Germans Embraced the Third Reich
Basic Books, 2020

New Books in European Studies New Books in Genocide Studies New Books in German Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network April 6, 2020 Kelly McFall

We’ve grown to understand in the past few weeks how worlds can change in just a few days. Peter Fritzsche‘s new book Hitler’s First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich (Basic Books, 2020) is an extraordinary examination of how, in just a few months, Germans got used to... Read More

Hillary Chute
Great Books
Hillary Chute on Art Spiegelman's 'Maus'
Think About It, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Genocide Studies New Books in Jewish Studies New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Popular Culture New Books in Religion & Faith March 10, 2020 Uli Baer

Art Spiegelman’s Maus is the story of an American cartoonist’s efforts to uncover and record his father’s story of survival of the Holocaust. It is also a cartoon, where the Jews are mice, the Nazis cats, the Poles dogs, and the French, well, you’ll have to read it. It’s a... Read More

Eva van Roekel, “Phenomenal Justice: Violence and Morality in Argentina” (Rutgers UP, 2020)

Eva van Roekel
Phenomenal Justice
Violence and Morality in Argentina
Rutgers University Press, 2020

New Books in Anthropology New Books in Genocide Studies New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Law New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network March 5, 2020 Jeff Bachman

In Phenomenal Justice: Violence and Morality in Argentina (Rutgers University Press, 2020), Eva van Roekel grounds her research in phenomenological anthropology and the anthropology of emotion to offer readers a novel and compelling perspective on justice proceedings in the aftermath of historical crimes against humanity. Van Roekel approaches the question:... Read More

Steven Ross and Wolf Gruner, “New Perspectives on Kristallnacht” (Purdue UP, 2019)

Steven Ross and Wolf Gruner
New Perspectives on Kristallnacht
After 80 years, the Nazi Pogrom in Global Comparison
Purdue University Press, 2019

New Books in European Studies New Books in Genocide Studies New Books in German Studies New Books in History New Books in Jewish Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith March 5, 2020 Kelly McFall

It’s possible to organize a 20th-century German history course around the date 9 November. In 1918, Phillipp Schedemann proclaimed the creation of a new German Republic. In 1989, 9 November saw the opening of the Berlin Wall. In between, in 1938, Kristallnacht began on the night of 9 November. Krystallnacht,... Read More

Alex J. Kay and David Stahel, “Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe” (Indiana UP, 2018)

Alex J. Kay and David Stahel
Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe

Indiana University Press, 2018

New Books in European Studies New Books in Genocide Studies New Books in German Studies New Books in History New Books in Military History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network February 11, 2020 Natasha Margulis

Alex J. Kay (senior lecturer in History at the University of Potsdam) and David Stahel (senior lecturer in History at the University of New South Wales in Canberra) have edited a groundbreaking series of articles on German mass killing and violence during World War II. Four years in the making,... Read More

Wulf Gruner
The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia
Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses
Berghahn Books, 2019

New Books in Eastern European Studies New Books in Genocide Studies New Books in German Studies New Books in History New Books in Jewish Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith January 23, 2020 Kelly McFall

Holocaust research tends to concentrate on certain geographic regions. We know much about the Holocaust in Poland, Germany and Western Europe. We are learning more and more about the ‘Holocaust by Bullets’ in the territories of the Soviet Union. This is obviously a good thing. But that emphasis leaves us... Read More

Jennifer Cazenave
An Archive of the Catastrophe
The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah
SUNY Press, 2019

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in European Studies New Books in Film New Books in French Studies New Books in Genocide Studies New Books in Jewish Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network January 20, 2020 Roxanne Panchasi

Jennifer Cazenave’s An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah (SUNY Press, 2019) is a fascinating analysis of the 220 hours of outtakes edited out of the final nine and a half-hour 1985 film with which listeners and readers might be familiar. Well known around the... Read More