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Interviews with scholars of genocide about their new books.

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Thomas Weber, "Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi" (Basic Books, 2017)

October 18, 2024

Becoming Hitler

Thomas Weber
Hosted by Darren O' Byrne

Few would dispute that Hitler's ideas led to war and genocide. Less clear however, is how and when those ideas developed. In his latest book, Becoming…

Rachel O'Sullivan, "Nazi Germany, Annexed Poland and Colonial Rule: Resettlement, Germanization and Population Policies in Comparative Perspective" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

October 16, 2024

Nazi Germany, Annexed Poland and Colonial Rule

Rachel O'Sullivan
Hosted by Kelly McFall

Nazi Germany, Annexed Poland and Colonial Rule: Resettlement, Germanization and Population Policies in Comparative Perspective (Bloomsbury, 2023) exam…

Boris Adjemian, "The Brass Band of the King: Armenians in Ethiopia" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

October 12, 2024

The Brass Band of the King

Boris Adjemian
Hosted by Ari Barbalat

In 1924, the crown prince and future emperor of Ethiopia, Ras Täfäri, on a visit to Jerusalem, called on forty Armenian orphans who had survived the g…

Norman Naimark, "Stalin's Genocides" (Princeton UP, 2010)

October 9, 2024

Stalin's Genocides

Norman Naimark
Hosted by Marshall Poe

Absolutely no one doubts that Stalin murdered millions of people in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. His ruthless campaign of "dekulakization," his pitiles…

Fazil Moradi, "Being Human: Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq" (Rutgers UP, 2024)

October 6, 2024

Being Human

Fazil Moradi
Hosted by Yadong Li

In the contemporary world, political violence has been an unavoidable issue for everyone. It is therefore essential to criticize political violence in…

Steven T. Katz, "The Holocaust and New World Slavery: A Comparative History" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

September 30, 2024

The Holocaust and New World Slavery

Steven T. Katz
Hosted by Ari Barbalat

The Holocaust and New World Slavery: A Comparative History (Cambridge UP, 2019) offers the first, in-depth comparison of the Holocaust and new world s…

Estelle Tarica, "Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin America" (SUNY Press, 2022)

September 29, 2024

Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin America

Estelle Tarica
Hosted by Ari Barbalat

Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin America (SUNY Press, 2022) proposes the existence of a recognizably distinct Holocaust consciou…

Waitman Wade Beorn, "Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)

September 27, 2024

Between the Wires

Waitman Wade Beorn
Hosted by Kelly McFall

Waitman Wade Beorn's book Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv (University of Nebraska Press, 2024) tells for the first time…

Francesco Lotoro, "The Lost Music of the Holocaust: Bringing the Music of the Camps to the Ears of the World at Last" (Headline, 2024)

September 24, 2024

Lost Music of the Holocaust

Francesco Lotoro
Hosted by Ari Barbalat

Scores sewn into coat linings, instruments hidden in suitcases, sheet music stashed among dirty laundry, concertos written on discarded food wrappers …

Tom Navon, "Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust: Otto Heller (1897–1945)" (SUNY Press, 2024)

September 21, 2024

Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust

Tom Navon
Hosted by Ari Barbalat

This book explores the confrontation of radically assimilated Jews with the violent collapse of their envisioned integration into a cosmopolitan Europ…

Dan Stone, "Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust" (Oxford UP, 2023)

September 5, 2024

Fate Unknown

Dan Stone
Hosted by Kelly McFall

In Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust (Oxford University Press, 2023), Dan Stone tells the story of the last great…

Colette Brull-Ulmann et al., "Through the Morgue Door: One Woman’s Story of Survival and Saving Children in German-Occupied Paris" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

September 1, 2024

Through the Morgue Door

Colette Brull-Ulmann and Jean-Christophe Portes
Hosted by Ari Barbalat

Today I talked to Anne Landau and Margaret Sinclair, the translators of Through the Morgue Door: One Woman’s Story of Survival and Saving Children in …

Marie-Eve Desrosiers, "Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control Before the Genocide" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

August 26, 2024

Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda

Marie-Eve Desrosiers
Hosted by Susan Thomson

Marie-Eve Desrosiers (Univ. of Ottawa) has written a wonderful book. Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control Before the Genocide (…

Laurien Vastenhout, "Between Community and Collaboration: 'Jewish Councils' in Western Europe under Nazi Occupation" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

August 23, 2024

Between Community and Collaboration

Laurien Vastenhout
Hosted by Ari Barbalat

The first comprehensive, comparative study of the 'Jewish Councils' in the Netherlands, Belgium and France during Nazi rule. In the postwar period, th…

Steven J. Zipperstein, "Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History" (Liveright, 2018)

August 21, 2024

Pogrom

Steven J. Zipperstein
Hosted by Moses Lapin

In what has become perhaps the most infamous example of modern anti-Jewish violence prior to the Holocaust, the Kishinev pogrom should have been a sma…

Susanne Barth, "From Schmelt Camp to 'Little Auschwitz': Blechhammer’s Role in the Holocaust" (Purdue UP, 2024)

August 19, 2024

From Schmelt Camp to “Little Auschwitz”

Susanne Barth
Hosted by Ari Barbalat

From Schmelt Camp to "Little Auschwitz" Blechhammer's Role in the Holocaust (Purdue UP, 2024) is the first in-depth study of the second largest Auschw…

Lauren Benton, "They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence" (Princeton UP, 2024)

August 16, 2024

They Called It Peace

Lauren Benton
Hosted by Thomas Kingston

A sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empires. Imperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, sla…

Andrew R. Basso, "Destroy Them Gradually: Displacement as Atrocity" (Rutgers UP, 2024)

August 13, 2024

Destroy Them Gradually

Andrew R. Basso
Hosted by Kelly McFall

Perpetrators of mass atrocities have used displacement to transport victims to killing sites or extermination camps to transfer victims to sites of fo…

Dora Osborne, "What Remains: The Post-Holocaust Archive in German Memory Culture" (Camden House, 2020)

August 9, 2024

What Remains

Dora Osborne
Hosted by Lea Greenberg

With the passing of those who witnessed National Socialism and the Holocaust, the archive matters as never before. However, the material that remains …

Robert Gerwarth, "Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich" (Yale UP, 2012)

August 9, 2024

Hitler's Hangman

Robert Gerwarth
Hosted by Kelly McFall

Few history books sell better than biographies of Nazi leaders. They attract anyone even tangentially interested in World War Two or Nazi Germany. It'…