War es die auf Antisemitismus und Rassismus basierende weltanschauliche Schulung, welche die Männer in Himmlers SS zu Mördern und verbissenen Kämpfern machte? Diese Frage wurde in der historischen Forschung oft sehr eindimensional diskutiert. Um die Funktion und Bedeutung der we…
War es die auf Antisemitismus und Rassismus basierende weltanschauliche Schulung, welche die Männer in Himmlers SS zu Mördern und verbissenen Kämpfern machte? Diese Frage wurde in der historischen Forschung oft sehr eindimensional diskutiert. Um die Funktion und Bedeutung der we…
War es die auf Antisemitismus und Rassismus basierende weltanschauliche Schulung, welche die Männer in Himmlers SS zu Mördern und verbissenen Kämpfern machte? Diese Frage wurde in der historischen Forschung oft sehr eindimensional diskutiert. Um die Funktion und Bedeutung der we…
"Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-Biesterfeld was a rebellious young writer who became a fervent Nazi. Heinrich Vogeler was a well-regarded artist who was to join the German Communist Party. Ludwig Roselius was a successful businessman who had made a fortune from his invention o…
"Les Bienveillantes (The Kindly Ones), caused a literary sensation in 2006. Described as "deliberately repellent" by The New York Times, Jonathan Littell's novel tells the story of World War II through the eyes of former SS officer Maximilien Aue. This is the first academic stud…
Satellite Empire is an in-depth investigation of the political and social history of the area in southwestern Ukraine under Romanian occupation during World War II. Transnistria was the only occupied Soviet territory administered by a power other than Nazi Germany, a reward for …
"Robert Moskin's volume chronicles the first five months of Harry Truman's presidency, encompassing not only the destruction and defeat of the Axis Powers in Germany and Japan, but also the dropping of the first atomic bombs, the birth of the United Nations, the death of colonia…
How did Japan and the United States end up at waron December 7, 1941? What American decisions mighthave provoked the Japanese decision to attack Pearl Harbor? In this classic study of the run up to World War II, Utleyexamines the ways domestic politics shaped America's response …
A gripping and groundbreaking history of how ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional weapons of warFlamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the large-scale spreading of disease: are these terrifying agents of warfare modern invent…
The Path to Genocide studies three aspects of the events leading up to the Final Solution in Nazi Germany. First, Nazi's "solutions" to their self-imposed "Jewish problem" before resorting to mass-murder are examined, specifically ghettoization and early resettlement plans to ex…
"From January to April 2000, a high-profile libel case brought by the British historian David Irving against Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt, charging that Lipstadt's book Denying the Holocaust (1993) falsely labeled him a Holocaust denier, was tried in the British High Court…
"Run by the Japanese Imperial Military during the Asia-Pacific war, the 'comfort women' system remains hugely controversial. Whilst political leaders often contest the role of coercion, many argue that the 'comfort women' were mobilized forcibly, through processes of abduction a…
The Holocaust is usually understood as a European story. Yet, this pivotal episode unfolded across North Africa and reverberated through politics, literature, memoir, and memory--Muslim as well as Jewish--in the post-war years. The Holocaust and North Africa offers the first Eng…
The Transylvanian Question - the struggle between Hungary and Romania for control of Transylvania - seems at first sight a side-show in the story of the Nazi New Order and the Second World War. These two allies of the Third Reich spent much of the war arguing bitterly among them…
