New Books in German Studies
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John K. Roth, "The Failures of Ethics: Confront...
Absent the overriding of moral sensibilities, if not the collapse or collaboration of ethical traditions, the Holocaust, genocide, and other mass atrocities could not have happened,,,
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Daniela Vallega-Neu, "Heidegger's Poietic Writi...
Looking at Heidegger’s writing from 1936-1942, Vallega-Neu’s text is an excellent guide through this incredibly difficult period of Heidegger’s thinking...
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Thomas Fleischman, "Communist Pigs: An Animal H...
The pig played a fundamental role in the German Democratic Republic's attempts to create and sustain a modern, industrial food system built on communist principles...
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Paolo Astorri, "Lutheran Theology and Contract ...
Astorri shows how the Protestant Reformation influence European law. Martin Luther and his successors led European Christianity away from medieval ideas of penance and the careful accounting that went with it toward theology of grace...
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N. Chare and D. Williams, "Testimonies of Resis...
Chare and Williams assemble careful investigations into how the Sonderkommando have been represented-by themselves and by others-both during and after the Holocaust.,.,
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Andrew Demshuk, "Bowling for Communism: Urban I...
Demshuk illuminates how civic life functioned in Leipzig, East Germany's second-largest city, on the eve of the 1989 revolution by exploring acts of urban ingenuity amid catastrophic urban decay...
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D. Bilak and T. Nummedal, "Furnace and Fugue. A...
In 1618, on the eve of the Thirty Years’ War, the German alchemist and physician Michael Maier published Atalanta fugiens, an intriguing and complex musical alchemical emblem book designed to engage the ear, eye, and intellect..,
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Martyn Rady, "The Habsburgs: To Rule the World"...
Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built -- and then lost -- over nearly a millennium...
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Adam Knowles, "Heidegger’s Fascist Affinities: ...
Martin Heidegger was member of the Nazi Party. What does that mean for his thought?
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Rhodri Jeffreys Jones, "The Nazi Spy Ring in Am...
Rhodri Jeffreys Jones tells the dramatic story of the Nazi spy ring in America. In the mid-1930s just as the United States was embarking on a policy of neutrality,..
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Jeremy Black, "The Holocaust: History and Memor...
The event that is commonly labeled as the ‘Holocaust’, was one of the most horrific of the Twentieth Century. It is also one of the most popularly discussed events of both the past and the current century. And like many popular events it is filled with mis-understandings and mis-interpretations...
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Stephen C. Kepher, "COSSAC: Lt. Gen. Sir Freder...
D-Day, June 6, 1944, looms large in both popular and historical imaginations as the sin qua non, or single defining moment, of the Second World War....
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Roman Deininger, "Markus Söder: The Shadow Chan...
Who is the 53-year-old Bavarian first minister and, if he does succeed Merkel next year, what should Germany’s geopolitical partners expect?
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Justin Q. Olmstead, "The United States' Entry i...
Why did America enter the First World War? The author presents a new theory...
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Julia Sneeringer, "A Social History of Early Ro...
The Beatles’ sojourn in the St. Pauli district of Hamburg during the early 1960s is part of music legend....
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T. P. Kaplan and W. Gruner, "Resisting Persecut...
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....
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Helmut Walser Smith, "Germany: A Nation in its ...
Smith challenges traditional perceptions of Germany’s conflicted past, revealing a nation far more thematically complicated than many twentieth-century historians have imagined...
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Molly Loberg, "The Struggle for the Streets of ...
In Germany, the First World War and 1918 Revolution transformed the city streets into the most important media for politics and commerce.
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Marion Kaplan, "Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope ...
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...
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Richard Breitman, "The Journal of Holocaust and...
"The Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies" is turning twenty-five...
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A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polym...
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....
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A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polym...
On May 20th, Eisler was arrested and spent the next fifteen months in Dachau and Buchenwald...
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Ari Linden, "Karl Kraus and The Discourse of Mo...
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...
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Roger Moorhouse, "Poland 1939: The Outbreak of ...
Combing English, German and crucially Polish language sources, Moorhouse reveals to the reader the German campaign from start to finish...
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A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polym...
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?”
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