In May of 2021, I was hired as an intern for the George L. Mosse Program. My job was to make existing oral histories, including those recorded with people who knew and worked with George …
Nazi Culture
Alex Scheepens, George L. Mosse Graduate Exchange Fellow, 2022-2023
Upon completing my preliminary examinations in June 2022, I was privileged to receive a George L. Mosse Graduate Exchange Fellowship to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which enabled me to travel to Israel, live and …
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 …
Lecture: Norman Domeier, “World Domination and Genocide: The ‘Lochner Version’ of Hitler’s Speech on 22 August 1939, a Key Document of National Socialist Ideology”
Attendees at the event received a hard copy of the “Lochner Version” of Hitler’s speech for reference through the lecture: **** Hitler’s Speech to the Leading Wehrmacht Generals on the Obersalzberg. 22 August 1939 (“Lochner …
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 …
Inaugural Columbia University Mosse Lecture: Steven E. Aschheim, “George L. Mosse: Historian of Fascism, Masculinity, and Nationalism”
27 April 2023 Steven E. Aschheim, “George L. 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 …
Stanley Payne, review of Emilio Gentile’s “Storia del fascismo” and “Totalitarismo 100”
Emilio Gentile. Storia del fascismo. Bari-Rome: Laterza, 2022. xxi, 1350 PP. Cloth 38€. ISBN: 9788858148914. Emilio Gentile. Totalitarismo 100. Ritorno alla storia. Rome: Salerno Editrice, 2023. 204 PP. Cloth 21€. ISBN: 9788869737794. Fascism died in …
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” …
Oral History: Michael Berkowitz
Narrator: Michael Berkowitz Interviewer: John Tortorice Videographer: William Tishler Date: 7 November 2018 Transcribed: Teresa Bergen, Matthew Greene, Skye Doney Format: Video Editing: Kyle Jenkins, Greg Konop Length: 1 hour, 42 minutes Michael Berkowitz …
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: 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]. …
Max Lazar review of Robert Gellately’s “Hitler’s True Believers”
Robert Gellately. Hitler’s True Believers: How Ordinary People Became Nazis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 464 pp. ISBN: 9780190689902. The winds of change were blowing in Braunschweig when Elisabeth Gebensleben-von Alten, the wife of the city’s …
Eric Kurlander review of Anson Rabinbach’s “Staging the Third Reich”
Anson Rabinbach. Staging the Third Reich: Essays in Cultural and Intellectual History. Edited by Stefanos Geroulanos, Dagmar Herzog. New York: Taylor & Francis Group, 2020. 494 pp. ISBN 9780367818975. Anson Rabinbach has spent the …
Terrence Peterson: H-Net XPost- Conference Report on Mosse’s Europe
Conference Report: ‘Mosse’s Europe: New Perspectives in the History of German Judaism, Fascism, and Sexuality,’ June 6-9th, Berlin This post appeared first on H-German on 26 June 2019. For George L. Mosse, the historical and …
Othmar Plöckinger: Lecture- Mein Kampf: An Infamous Book
Adolf Hitler. Mein Kampf: eine kritische Edition. Eds. Christian Hartmann, Thomas Vordermayer, Othmar Plöckinger, Roman Töppel, Edith Raim, et al. Munich: Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 2016. 1,966 PP. Cloth. 59.00€. ISBN: 9783981405231. Othmar Plöckinger: Okay. I may …
Milan Hauner, Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf: The Critical Edition
A critical edition of Mein Kampf by the Institute for Contemporary History, Munich-Berlin 2016. Edited by Christian Hartmann, Thomas Vordermayer, Othmar Plöckinger and Roman Töppel, et al. The following is a shortened review essay by …
Jason Doerre, Fascism Then, Fascism Today
George L. Mosse. Nazi Culture: Intellectual, Cultural, and Social Life in the Third Reich. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. 448 PP. Cloth. $32.95. ISBN: 9780299193041. While I have used my previous two posts for …
Jason Doerre, What is Nazi Culture?
George L. Mosse. Nazi Culture: Intellectual, Cultural, and Social Life in the Third Reich. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. 448 PP. Cloth. $32.95. ISBN: 9780299193041. In my last blog post I made the case …
Jason Doerre, On the Value of Studying Nazi Culture
George L. Mosse. Nazi Culture: Intellectual, Cultural, and Social Life in the Third Reich. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. 448 PP. Cloth. $32.95. ISBN: 9780299193041. “The Third Reich has made a deep impression upon …