Edward Timms. Karl Kraus, Apocalyptic Satirist: The Post-War Crisis and the Rise of the Swastika. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005. xxi + 639 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-10751-7.
Reviewed by Richard Ascarate (Government Accountability Office (GAO))
Published on H-German (June, 2006)
Karl Kraus: Text as Life, Life as Text
A. W. Bates. Emblematic Monsters: Unnatural Conceptions and Deformed Births in Early Modern Europe. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005. 334 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-420-1862-4.
Reviewed by Kathleen Crowther (Department of the History of Science, University of Oklahoma)
Published on H-German (June, 2006)
Embryology and Eschatology
Dagmar Unverhau, ed. Geschichtsdeutung auf alten Karten: ArchÖ¤ologie und Geschichte. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003. 495 pp. EUR 124.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-447-04813-2.
Reviewed by Nathanael Robinson (Brandeis University)
Published on H-German (June, 2006)
The Latitudes of Historical Maps
Bryan Gilliam, ed. Music and Performance during the Weimar Republic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv + 220 pp. $34.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-02256-9.
Reviewed by Anselm C. Heinrich (Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of Glasgow)
Published on H-German (June, 2006)
Unaltered Reprint of an Interesting Collection
Moritz Föllmer, Rüdiger Graf. Die "Krise" der Weimarer Republik: Zur Kritik eines Deutungsmusters. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 2005. 367 S. EUR 39.90 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-593-37734-6.
Reviewed by Ofer Ashkenazi (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
Published on H-German (June, 2006)
A Constructive Use of the "Magical Concept": Discourses and Experiences of "Crisis" in the Weimar Republic
Michael S. Bryant. Confronting the "Good Death": Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945-1953. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2005. x + 269 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-87081-809-7.
Reviewed by Frank Buscher (Department of History, Rhodes College)
Published on H-German (June, 2006)
The Doctors and Their Judges
Fern Overbey-Hilton. The Dachau Defendants: Life Stories from Testimony and Documents of the War Crimes Prosecutions. Jefferson: McFarland and Company Inc., 2004. vii + 208 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-1768-1.
Reviewed by Caroline Sharples (Department of History, University of Southampton)
Published on H-German (June, 2006)
Personalizing the Perpetrators
Barnet Hartston. Sensationalizing the Jewish Question: Anti-Semitic Trials and the Press in the Early German Empire. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2005. xiii + 335 pp. $213.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-04-14654-9.
Reviewed by Richard S. Levy (Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago)
Published on H-German (June, 2006)
Their Day in Court
Daniel Beller-McKenna. Brahms and the German Spirit. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. 243 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-01318-6.
Reviewed by Jonathan Koehler (Department of History, North Park University)
Published on H-German (June, 2006)
Assimilation at Any Price
Richard Breitman, Norman J. W. Goda, Timothy Naftali, Robert Wolfe. U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 495 pp. $79.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-85268-5; $27.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-61794-9.
Reviewed by Devin O. Pendas (Department of History, Boston College)
Published on H-German (June, 2006)
