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General History
July 9, 2020
Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg
A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II
Francine Hirsch
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Ryan Stackhouse
How did an authoritarian regime help lay the cornerstones of human rights and international law? Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War …
German Studies
July 8, 2020
November 1918
The German Revolution
Robert Gerwarth
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Ryan Stackhouse
Was Weimar doomed from the outset? In November 1918: The German Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2020), Robert Gerwarth argues that this is the wrong question to ask. Forget 1929 and …
Military History
March 27, 2020
Retreat from Moscow
A New History of Germany's Winter Campaign, 1941-1942
David Stahel
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Ryan Stackhouse
Germany’s winter campaign of 1941–1942 is commonly seen as the Wehrmacht's first defeat. In Retreat from Moscow: A New History of Germany's Winter Campaign, 1941-1942 (FSG, 2019), David Stahel argues …
German Studies
March 13, 2020
Disruptive Power
Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918-1965
Michael O’Sullivan
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Ryan Stackhouse
How did Catholic mysticism shape politics and religion in 20th-century Germany? What do seers, stigmatics, and Marian apparitions reveal about broader cultural trends? Michael O’Sullivan’s award winning new book examines …
German Studies
January 22, 2020
West Germany and the Iron Curtain
Environment, Economy, and Culture in the Borderlands
Astrid Eckert
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Ryan Stackhouse
How did the Iron Curtain shape the Federal Republic of Germany? How did the internal border become a proving ground for rival ideologies? West Germany and the Iron Curtain: Environment …
General History
November 20, 2019
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front
American Airmen behind the Soviet Lines and the Collapse of the Grand Alliance
Serhii Plokhy
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Ryan Stackhouse
What happened when Americans and Soviets fought alongside one another against Hitler? How did relations at Poltava airbase reveal cracks in the Grand Alliance? Serhii Plokhy tells the story of …
German Studies
September 19, 2019
Making Prussians, Raising Germans
A Cultural History of Prussian State-Building after Civil War, 1866-1935
Jasper Heinzen
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Ryan Stackhouse
How does civil war shape state building and national identity over the long term? What do the underlying conflicts between Hanoverians and the Prussian state reveal about the course of …
German Studies
June 27, 2019
1931
Debt, Crisis, and the Rise of Hitler
Tobias Straumann
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Ryan Stackhouse
What can we learn from the financial crisis that brought Hitler to power? How did diplomatic deadlock fuel the rise of authoritarianism? Tobias Straumann shares vital insights with 1931: Debt …
German Studies
January 18, 2019
Journalists between Hitler and Adenauer
From Inner Emigration to the Moral Reconstruction of West Germany
Volker Berghahn
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Ryan Stackhouse
What can the lives of journalists under Hitler and Adenauer reveal? How did they navigate the Third Reich as "internal emigrants"? How did the emerging Cold War shape new tensions …
German Studies
December 26, 2018
Hunt for Nazis
South America's Dictatorships and the Prosecution of Nazi Crimes
Daniel Stahl
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Ryan Stackhouse
How did the search for Nazi fugitives become a vehicle to oppose South American dictatorships? Daniel Stahl’s award-winning new book traces the story of three continents over the course of …
German Studies
November 20, 2018
Weimar Germany
Promise and Tragedy
Eric D. Weitz
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Ryan Stackhouse
What can the Weimar Republic teach us about how democracies fail? How could the same vibrancy that gave us cultural touchstones spawn Nazism? In his new book Weimar Germany: Promise …
German Studies
September 27, 2018
Reckonings
Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice
Mary Fulbrook
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Ryan Stackhouse
What voices have been silenced in the history of the Holocaust? How did victims and perpetrators make sense of their experiences? How did the failed pursuit of post-war justice shape …
German Studies
June 12, 2018
Red Saxony
Election Battles and the Spectre of Democracy in Germany, 1860 to 1918
James Retallack
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Ryan Stackhouse
How can political modernization reinforce authoritarianism? What brought middle-class liberals and conservative monarchists to make common cause in late 19th- and early 20th-century Germany? How did a political culture defined …
German Studies
April 6, 2018
The Third Reich's Intelligence Service
The Career of Walter Schellenberg
Katrin Paehler
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Ryan Stackhouse
Who was the spymaster of the Third Reich? How did Nazi ideology influence intelligence collection? Katrin Paehler answers these questions with the first analysis of Office VI of the Reich …
German Studies
February 26, 2018
Hitler's Compromises
Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany
Nathan Stoltzfus
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Ryan Stackhouse
How did the Nazi regime respond to protest? How did Hitler's desire for popular authority shape the relationship between state and society? Nathan Stoltzfus challenges the idea that the Third …
German Studies
January 30, 2018
Not in My Family
German Memory and Responsibility After the Holocaust
Roger Frie
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Ryan Stackhouse
What if you suddenly discovered a cherished member of your family was a Nazi? How would you make sense of the code of silence that had kept an uncomfortable reality …
German Studies
December 19, 2017
The Rhythm of Eternity
The German Youth Movement and the Experience of the Past, 1900-1933
Robbert Jan-Adriaansen
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Ryan Stackhouse
The German youth movement of the late Kaiserreich and ill-fated Weimar Republic has been a subject of controversy since its inception. The longing for community that drove the movement, and …
German Studies
November 28, 2017
Better Active than Radioactive!
Anti-Nuclear Protest in 1970s France and West Germany
Andrew S. Tompkins
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Ryan Stackhouse
Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in western Europe over the 1970s. Observers feared Germany was becoming "ungovernable" and France was moving toward "civil war." The source …
German Studies
October 26, 2017
Believe and Destroy
Intellectuals in the SS War Machine
Christian Ingrao
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Ryan Stackhouse
How did a generation of Germany's best and brightest become radicalized? What convinced young intellectuals to join the SS and perpetrate genocide in pursuit of a racial utopia? Find out …
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