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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

Hosted by 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 …