The rise of political martyrdom in the contemporary world is not a new phenomenon but can be traced back to at least the early Twentieth Century with the rise of European Fascist movements. Both they, and the fascist-like movements of today, share a cluster of characteristics th…
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This dissertation discusses the topics of judicial independence and judicial accountability using the federal and state court systems of the United States as major examples since much of the work on judicial independence derives from the American experience. I define judicial in…
The late 1920s and 1930s were a crucial moment in the state-directed modernization of Turkey, because it was the moment in which the Kemalists turned to the implementation of cultural reforms in every field from arts to clothing. This moment of state-led modernization coincided,…
Between 1929 and 1945, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were responsible for the deaths of approximately fourteen million Eastern European civilians and officials. The Holodomor, perpetrated by the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust, committed by the Nazis, were genocides due to t…
Conducted on a scale unseen before in history, the Nazi art looting operation set a new precedent for art theft that significantly altered the world’s approach to art protection and restitution in the aftermath of war. Documenting their successes, Nazi art looting agencies like …
This thesis utilizes academic articles and monographs to examine Nazi Germany’s academic discourse regarding the “Muslim World” between 1935—1941. I argue that prominent Nazi thinkers considered the “Muslim World” to be a rising power but disagreed whether Muslims would enable o…
The thesis details the attempts at and the eventual implementation of the Volkskirche by the German Christians in the region of Thuringia between the years 1932–1939. The Volkskirche represented the ideal, new form of Christianity that the German Christian Movement wished to imp…
My dissertation links the arc of war crimes justice with the arc of reconciliation in Franco-German relations from 1944 to 1963. I argue that France initially created a retributive justice which aggressively targeted crimes committed by the German occupant from 1940 to 1944. By …
This study proposes a framework through which to examine queer resistance and oppositional behaviors under oppression and persecution, such as the Nazi regime. Under the Weimar Republic, queer circles coalesced into communities that developed a degree of visibility in the German…
Like many German men that were raised in the late Wilhelmine period, Heinrich Himmler was too young to enter the German Imperial Army, and thus unable to fight in the Great War. Therefore, he was unable to prove his own masculinity through a soldierly experience at a time when t…
This thesis utilizes Nazi women’s propaganda to explore the relationship between Nazi gender and racial ideology, particularly in relation to the Nazi Germanization program in the Warthegau during World War II. At the heart of this study is an examination of a paradox inherent i…