German history

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/17/2021
  

  Helen Roche's Work Examines the Elite Schools Nazis Modeled on Eton

  Helen Roche has published the first comprehensive history of the Napolas, the schools Nazis established to train future leaders of the Reich, and notes deep patterns of exchange between teachers and students at British and German schools before the start of war. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  11/10/2021
  

  Framing Political Violence as Patriotism is Even More Dangerous Than it Sounds

  by Jeremy Best

  The Republican Party has agreed to label the Capitol rioters of January 6 as patriots resisting a dubious (if not stolen) election result. This is a step toward endorsing more political violence and endangering democratic government.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/6/2021
  

  Germany to Dedicate Additional $767M for Holocaust Survivors

  Russian Jews who were subjected to the brutal siege of Leningrad, and subjected to Nazi propaganda that encouraged other Russians to blame them for the city's suffering, are among those offered new pensions. 

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• SOURCE: Cabinet
  9/9/2021
  

  Melcher's Ghosts

  by Monica Black

  "Denazification prompted less soul-searching than resentment and anxiety among the German population. People worried that their prior affiliations and involvement in everything from war crimes to far less nefarious acts—like having obtained property illegally during the Nazi years—would be revealed."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/3/2021
  

  New Book of Family History Recreates the Anti-Nazi Resistance in Germany

  Rebecca Donner, great-great-neice of Mildred Harnack, an American-born woman executed in 1943 for anti-Nazi activity in Germany, has written a book of family history that also shows the melting away of German delusions about Hitler's intentions and power. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  7/14/2021
  

  Jenny Erpenbeck Is Keeping Time

  German author Jenny Erpenbeck's work is an exercise in preserving the objects that place a person's memory in history, particularly her own childhood in East Germany. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/8/2021
  

  Germany Apologized for a Genocide. It’s Nowhere Near Enough

  by Kavena Hambira and Miriam Gleckman-Krut

  "To begin to atone for its Namibian genocide, Germany must negotiate directly with descendants of survivors — and commit to wide-ranging reparations."

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• 7/11/2021
  

  Reflecting on the 80th Anniversary of the Nazi Invasion of Russia

  by Rick Halperin

  The Nazi invasion of Russia unleashed unprecedented brutality against civilians along the eastern front; those horrors should reinforce a commitment to human rights.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/28/2021
  

  Germany Acknowledges Colonial Genocide in Namibia and Promises Development Projects

  "We will from now on officially call these events what they are from a contemporary perspective: a genocide.”

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• SOURCE: BBC
  5/31/2021
  

  Why Germany's Namibia Genocide Apology Isn't Enough

  The BBC editorializes that the German government's apologies for its genocidal repression in southwest Africa is more public relations than reparation. 

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• SOURCE: WRAL
  5/17/2021
  

  Germany Nears Accord with Namibia on Colonial Killings

  Germany has hinted at its readiness to make compensation payments to Namibia in reparation for the genocidal attacks on the Herero and other peoples in 1904, considered one of the first modern genocides. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  5/17/2021
  

  Black Germans and New Forms of Resistance

  by Tiffany Florvil

  Black activists and intellectuals in Germany have worked to promote knowledge of colonial and Black history as a counter to the entrenched tendency to hide and evade the subject. 

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• SOURCE: HistoryExtra
  5/11/2021
  

  The Night of the Long Knives: The Bloody Purge that Secured Hitler’s Power

  Hitler's 1934 purge of his perceived rival Ernst Röhm and his followers suspected of disloyalty foreshadowed the eliminationist violence of his regime. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/2/2021
  

  Germany’s Anti-Vaccination History Is Riddled With Anti-Semitism

  by Edna Bonhomme

  Antisemitism has often flared during public health crises such as pandemics; it has also attached itself to suspicion of vaccination, a trend that has been disturbingly prominent among German anti-vaxxers. 

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• 4/25/2021
  

  Whither Germany? Historiography and Public Reckoning with the National Past

  by Samuel Miner

  Hedwig Richter's book "Democracy: A German Affair" has sparked controversy for its rejection of the idea that Germany has followed a "special path" to liberal democracy and catalyzed a broad debate about the role of historians in public reckoning with the crimes of the past. 

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• SOURCE: Public Seminar
  4/8/2021
  

  Why Weimar is an Imperfect Mirror

  by Helmut Smith

  Peter Gay's "Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider" became a key text for understanding the Weimar era as an allegory for understanding political conflict when it was published in 1968. But his psychoanalytical approach can be an impediment to understanding the historical specificity of the era. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  3/21/2021
  

  Jonathan Steinberg: Wrote Influential English Study of Bismarck's Germany

  Jonathan Steinberg's scholarly work ranged from evaluating participation in the Holocaust to a biographical study of the influential German chancellor, and his teaching work resulted in him supervising the Prince of Wales in his undergraduate history studies. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/21/2021
  

  Letters Found In An Attic Reveal Eerie Similarities Between Adolf Hitler And His Father

  A trove of letters discovered in an Austrian attic are a rare primary source about the parents of the Nazi leader. 

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• 2/21/2021
  

  Cynicism and Political Blunder: A Postscript to “The January 6th Assault on Congress and the Fate of the GOP’s Faustian Bargain"

  by Jeffrey Herf

  Mitch McConnell's decision to condemn Trump after voting for his acquittal wasn't just an act of cowardice. The acts taken together constitute a major tactical blunder in the emerging battle for control of the Republican Party. 

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  2/9/2021
  

  Trump Probably Won't Speak at His Impeachment Trial. That May be a Good Thing

  Columnist Hayes Brown suggests that there's enough evidence Democrats can bring against Trump without giving him a public platform to espouse conspiracy theories. German authorities came to regret giving Hitler such a platform in 1924, as summarized by historian Volker Ullrich.