Jay Geller, review of Darcy Buerkle, Skye Doney eds., “Contemporary Europe in the Historical Imagination”

Darcy Buerkle and Skye Doney, eds. Contemporary Europe in the Historical Imagination. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. 418 pp. Cloth $79.95. ISBN 9780299342401. The mid-twentieth century produced many exceptional scholars of German history, more …

Adam R. Seipp, review of Mikkel Dack’s “Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany: The Fragebogen and Political Screening during the Allied Occupation”

Mikkel Dack. Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany: The Fragebogen and Political Screening during the Allied Occupation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 350 PP. Cloth $110.00. ISBN 9781009216333. The Fragebogen (Questionnaire) was a ubiquitous feature of …

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 …

Emma Kuby, review of Elissa Mailänder’s “Amour, mariage, sexualité. Une histoire intime du nazisme (1930-1950)”

Elissa Mailänder. Amour, mariage, sexualité. Une histoire intime du nazisme (1930-1950). Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2021. 512 PP. Paper €24.00. ISBN: 9782021459241. In 1995, an elderly Austrian woman stood before the photographic evidence of Nazi …

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 …

Marina Zilbergerts, review of Sunny Yudkoff’s Tubercular Capital: Illness and the Conditions of Modern Jewish Writing”

Sunny Yudkoff. Tubercular Capital: Illness and the Conditions of Modern Jewish Writing. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018. 256 PP. Cloth. $65.00. ISBN: 9781503605152. Sunny Yudkoff’s recent monograph, Tubercular Capital: Illness and the Conditions of Modern …

Thomas Brodie, review of Dagmar Herzog’s “Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe”

Dagmar Herzog. Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2020. 184 PP. Cloth. $39.95. ISBN: 9780299319205. Recent decades have witnessed the growth of a large and sophisticated literature …