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

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...

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...

How should Germans remember the Berlin Wall?

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...

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...

In this episode, we talk with Michael Gubser about the pioneering art historian Alois Riegl, one of Eisler’s teachers in Vienna and a major influence on his thought...

In this episode, we talk with Michael Gubser about the pioneering art historian Alois Riegl, one of Eisler’s teachers in Vienna and a major influence on his thought...

Finder and Prusin offer comprehensive account of the trials of Nazi perpetrators conducted in liberated and postwar Poland....

Arjomand provides a startling account of the many intersections between theatre and trials in Germany and the United States from the 1930s to the 1960s...

In this episode (# 2), we discuss Eisler’s early years as a member of the Jewish bourgeoisie in turn-of-the-century Vienna with historian Steven Beller...

John reflects on the people who have taught him, in all the different ways teaching can happen, and the lessons that he’s learned over decades of thinking and writing about the Holocaust...

Perhaps nothing was as unexpected in this conflict as the sudden termination of the same in November 1918...

Eisler argues that modern humans are descended from primates who imitated the hunting practices and pack hierarchies of wolves during the scarcity of the ice age...

Lee tells the story of the events leading up to the little-known revolt of Georgian Wehrmacht recruits against the Germans on the island of Texel, which was part of the Atlantic Wall fortifications off the Dutch coast...

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Crim explores the diverse ways in which the Holocaust influences and shapes science fiction and horror film and television by focusing on notable contributions from the last fifty years...

In recent decades, scholarship has turned to the role of gender in the Holocaust, but rarely has it critically investigated the experiences of men as gendered beings..

Miller explores the literary evolution of the modern epic in postwar German literature...

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

Kettler and Wheatland pays special attention to Neumann's efforts to break down the conventional divide between political theory and the empirical discipline of political science...

Rosenfeld shows how postwar German history might have been very different without the fear of the Fourth Reich as a mobilizing idea to combat the right-wing forces that genuinely threatened the country's democratic order...