Who is the 53-year-old Bavarian first minister and, if he does succeed Merkel next year, what should Germany’s geopolitical partners expect?

Why did America enter the First World War? The author presents a new theory...

The Beatles’ sojourn in the St. Pauli district of Hamburg during the early 1960s is part of music legend....

In 20 years of studying the Holocaust, it didn’t occurr to me that German officials might, when petitioned by German Jews or by Germans advocating for German Jews, change their minds....

Smith challenges traditional perceptions of Germany’s conflicted past, revealing a nation far more thematically complicated than many twentieth-century historians have imagined...

In Germany, the First World War and 1918 Revolution transformed the city streets into the most important media for politics and commerce.

Kaplan describes the dramatic experiences of Jewish refugees as they fled Hitler’s regime and then lived in limbo in Portugal until they could reach safer havens abroad...

"The Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies" is turning twenty-five...

In this episode, I look at Eisler’s last days in England, where he found that the Oxford readership he had been promised before being sent to Dachau was taken by someone else....

On May 20th, Eisler was arrested and spent the next fifteen months in Dachau and Buchenwald...

Linden analyzes Karl Kraus’s oeuvre while engaging in the conversation about modernism and modernity, which is shaped and conditioned by the already post-postmodern condition...

Combing English, German and crucially Polish language sources, Moorhouse reveals to the reader the German campaign from start to finish...

Whitehead ask Eisler "Is a frequent occurrence that men see The Christ; and are there occasions known when the visions are free from religiosity and at the same time full of life and power?”

Grimmer-Solem examines the process of German globalization that began in the 1870s, well before Germany acquired a colonial empire or extensive overseas commercial interests...

In this episode, we begin with Eisler’s testimony before the skeptical Senators of the Committee on Banking and Currency in Washington, D.C. on January 20, 1934...

Scholz's maps shift the focus from the border to the thoroughfare to show that controls of moving goods and people were rarely concentrated at borders before the mid-eighteenth century...

Of the many medical specializations to transform themselves during the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received relatively little attention from historians...

How did an authoritarian regime help lay the cornerstones of human rights and international law?

In this episode, we focus on one of Eisler’s most controversial works, a reconstruction of the 1st-century Roman Jewish historian Josephus’ account of the events surrounding the death of Jesus...

Talty tells the untold story of an Israeli spy’s epic journey to bring the notorious Butcher of Latvia to justice—a case that altered the fates of all ex-Nazis...

How should Germans remember the Berlin Wall?

Adorno and his colleagues attempted to map the psychological and emotional dynamics of those who might find themselves seduced by authoritarianism...

Steinberg analyses the emergence of a particular notion of a “Teutonic” identity among a group of scholars in England and Germany...

Carswell emphasizes the various contingent factors that led to the military defeat of French forces by the Germans...