H-Diplo Essay No. 176
An H-Diplo Book Review Essay
18 September 2019
Review Editors: Diane Labrosse
Production Editor: George Fujii
Matthew D. Hockenos. Then They Came for Me: Martin Niemöller, The Pastor who Defied the Nazis. New York: Basic Books, 2018. ISBN: 9780465097869 (hardcover, $30/CDN$39).
URL: https://hdiplo.org/to/E176
Experiencing History, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's digital portal for primary sources on the Holocaust, has launched a new section of content. "Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust" examines how the rise of Nazi Germany and the onset of the Holocaust changed the conditions of everyday life for millions of people.
Friends, Colleages,
I am hoping that some of you can suggest work that traces the fate of deep identification (tribal/belonging) with Hitler/Nazi Germany over the decades after 1945. I am aware of the Mitscherlichs' work and related. I am looking for well detailed and documented work that goes subjectively deep re sustained inability/unwillingness to move beyond psychological fusion (beyond ideology) with Hitler/nazism, perhaps over the course of a generation. Maybe longer.
Thanks, best,
Hank Greenspan
H-Diplo | ISSF Article Review 124
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Editors: Diane Labrosse and Seth Offenbach
Web and Production Editor: George Fujii
Experiencing History, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's digital portal for primary sources on the Holocaust, has launched a new section of content. "Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust" examines how the rise of Nazi Germany and the onset of the Holocaust changed the conditions of everyday life for millions of people.
Call for Applications – Doctoral Position on Informal Communication in World War II France (1940–1944)
Dear Colleagues,
The collecting of art and artefacts from East Asia has been in vogue in the Western world for hundreds of years with the forced opening of China, Japan and Korea from the mid-19th century onwards, creating a market boom that resulted in thousands of objects entering collections worldwide.
Hoping the H-Holocaust and H-AS editors will make serious review of criteria for appropriate and inappropriate posts. If the topic was, for example, juxtaposing Nazi Germany with contemporary politics, there have been widely circulated articles by Chris Browning, Debby Lipstadt, and others that speak to this. Such pieces by outstanding scholars would be a useful model for making such choices.
Hank Greenspan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
I have successfully used a film-based paper assignment in my WWII history class, and now I am considering using a film-based writing assignment in a Nazi Germany history class. I would like to get some input from any of you who have used films-based assignments.
