27 April 2023 Steven E. Aschheim, “George Mosse: Historian of Fascism, Masculinity, and Nationalism” Claudia Breger: My name is Claudia Breger, I’m the chair of the department of Germanic studies and languages here. And I …
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Yuan Chang, review of Nicolas Berg’s “The Holocaust and the West German Historians: Historical Interpretation and Autobiographical Memory”
Nicolas Berg. The Holocaust and the West German Historians: Historical Interpretation and Autobiographical Memory. Trans. and ed. Joel Golb. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. 346 PP. Paper $34.95. ISBN: 9780299300845. The Holocaust and the …
Susanna Cassisa, review of W. Jake Newsome’s “Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust”
W. Jake Newsome. Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 286 PP. Cloth $34.95. ISBN: 9781501765155. Since its appearance on the iconic “Silence = Death” …
Donatello Aramini, Lecture- “Nationalists and Fascists in Interwar Italy: A Study on Right-Wing Radicalism and the Processes of Hybridization and Fascistization”
The following talk was given at Memorial Library on Thursday, 4 August 2022. For an overview of the afternoon read Libby Theune’s “Summer Scholars Share Insights on Interwar European Politics.” The call for applications for …
Austin Clements, review of Emilio Gentile’s “Fascination with the Persecutor”
Emilio Gentile. Fascination with the Persecutor: George L. Mosse and the Catastrophe of Modern Man. Trans. John and Anne Tedeschi. Foreword Stanley Payne. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022. 224 PP. Cloth $39.95. ISBN: 9780299334307. …
Oral History: William F. “Jack” Fry
Narrator: William F. “Jack” Fry (1921-2011) Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 12 May and 6 August 2008 Transcribed by: Teresa Bergen Format: Audio (2 files) Total Length: 4 hours, 5 minutes, 24 seconds William F. “Jack” …
Robert Corban, review of Lorenzo Benadusi’s “Respectability and Violence: Military Values, Masculine Honor, and Italy’s Road to Mass Death”
Lorenzo Benadusi. Respectability and Violence: Military Values, Masculine Honor, and Italy’s Road to Mass Death. Translated by Zakiya Hanafi. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. 416 PP. $79.95. ISBN 9780299333300. Lorenzo Benadusi is an Associate …
Annette Becker and Mary Louise Roberts, “Messengers of Disaster”
Mary Louise Roberts: It’s a great honor to have Annette Becker here today. She’s a professor of contemporary history at Paris Nanterre La Défense and a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. She …
Lawrence L. Langer, review of Anna Hájková’s “The Last Ghetto”
Anna Hájková. The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Cloth $34.95. 376 PP. ISBN: 9780190051778. Anna Hájková’s The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt is an essential addition to …
Oral History: Stanley Payne
Narrator: Stanley Payne Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 18 December 2018 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen Format: Audio Total Length: 2 hours, 22 minutes Stanley Payne biography: Stanley G. Payne taught in five American universities, from 1968 to …
Oral History: Michael Kaplan
Narrator: Michael Kaplan Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 24, 25, 26 February 2019 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen, Skye Doney Format: Audio Total Length: 2 hours, 55 minutes, 40 seconds Michael Kaplan biography: Michael Kaplan graduated from the …
David Harrisville, review of Moritz Föllmer’s “Culture in the Third Reich”
Moritz Föllmer. Culture in the Third Reich. Trans. Jeremy Noakes and Lesley Sharp. Oxford University Press, 2020. 336 PP. Cloth $25.95. ISBN: 9780198814603. The birthplace of Beethoven and Goethe, Germany has long been seen by …
Oral History: Peter Abbott
Narrator: Peter Abbott Interviewer: John Tortorice, Skye Doney Videographer: William Tishler Date: 5 October 2018 Transcribed: Skye Doney Total Time: 38 minutes Editing: Kyle Jenkins, Greg Konop Peter Abbott biography: Born May 4, 1947, to …
Oral History: Rusty Borkin
Narrator: Rusty Borkin Interviewer: John Tortorice, Skye Doney Videographer: William Tishler Date: 5 October 2018 Transcribed: Skye Doney Total Time: 29 minutes Editing: Kyle Jenkins, Greg Konop Rusty Borkin biography: Rusty graduated with a BA …
Oral History: Christopher Browning
Narrator: Christopher R. Browning Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: 2 September 2020 Format: Text only via email during the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic. Christopher R. Browning biography: Christopher R. Browning is Professor Emeritus of History at the …
Oral History: Anson Rabinbach
Narrator: Anson Rabinbach Interviewer: John Tortorice Date: October 26, 2017 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen Total Time: 2 hours, 34 minutes **To access the OHMS oral history page for Anson Rabinbach, which allows listeners to search text …
Kathryn Julian, review of Monica Black’s “A Demon-Haunted Land”
Monica Black. A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post–WWII Germany. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2020. 352 PP. Cloth $29.99. ISBN: 9781250225672. Monica Black’s A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, …
Takumi Satō, Afterword to the Japanese Edition of Mosse’s “Nationalization of the Masses”
George L. Mosse. Taishū no kokuminka – Nachizumu ni itaru seiji shinboru to taishū bunka [The Nationalization of the Masses: Political Symbolism and Mass Movements in Germany from the Napoleonic Wars through the Third Reich]. …
Manuela Consonni, review of John Tedeschi’s “Italian Jews Under Fascism”
John Tedeschi with Anne C. Tedeschi. Italian Jews Under Fascism, 1938-1945: A Personal and Historical Narrative. Madison: Parallel Press, 2015. Paper $35.00. 443 PP. ISBN: 9781934795699. John Tedeschi’s important volume deals with the years of …
Noelle Turtur, review of Victoria de Grazia’s “The Perfect Fascist”
Victoria de Grazia. The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. 528 PP. Cloth $35.00. ISBN: 9780674986398. Victoria de Grazia’s The Perfect Fascist opens with …