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, …
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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
Othmar Plöckinger: Okay. I may sit here. Or should I stand up, I think that in the background Skye Doney: You’re fine. Plöckinger: You’re fine with that? Okay. Thank you. So, first of all, I’d …
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
While I have used my previous two posts for this blog, sponsored by the George L. Mosse Program, to highlight the enduring value and integrity of George Mosse’s editorial work in compiling Nazi Culture: Intellectual, …
Jason Doerre, What is Nazi Culture?
In my last blog post I made the case for the significance of George Mosse’s work, and in particular his book Nazi Culture: Intellectural, Cultural and Social Life in the Third Reich. The relevance of …
Jason Doerre, On the Value of Studying Nazi Culture
“The Third Reich has made a deep impression upon our civilization, and its impact has not diminished with the passing years,” begins George Mosse’s introduction to his 1966 work Nazi Culture: Intellectual, Cultural and Social …