New Books in German Studies
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Antonio J. Muñoz, "Hitler's War Against the Partisans During Operation Barbarossa: June 1941 to the Spring of 1942" (Frontline, 2025)
95 hours 25 mins; May 28, 2025
Jan Borowicz, "Perverse Memory and the Holocaust: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Polish Bystanders" (Routledge, 2024)
72 hours 10 mins; May 21, 2025
Sébastien Tremblay, "A Badge of Injury: The Pink Triangle as Global Symbol of Memory" (de Gruyter, 2023)
61 hours 27 mins; May 20, 2025
Richard Calis, "The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius" (Harvard UP, 2025)
59 mins; May 19, 2025
David de Jong, "Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties" (Mariner Books, 2022)
67 hours 36 mins; May 12, 2025
Victoria Khiterer, "Bitter War of Memory: The Babyn Yar Massacre, Aftermath, and Commemoration" (Purdue UP, 2025)
89 hours 43 mins; May 11, 2025
Chris Webb and Artur Hojan, "The Chelmno Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance" (Ibidem Press, 2019)
51 mins; May 08, 2025
Nechama Birnbaum, "The Redhead of Auschwitz: A True Story" (Amsterdam Publishers, 2021)
51 mins; May 07, 2025
Astrid von Schlachta, "Anabaptists: From the Reformation to the 21st Century" (Pandora Press, 2024)
62 hours 51 mins; May 06, 2025
Lucy Adlington, "The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive" (HarperCollins, 2021)
68 hours 34 mins; May 04, 2025
Michael David-Fox, "Crucibles of Power: Smolensk Under Stalinist and Nazi Rule" (Harvard UP, 2025)
60 hours 54 mins; May 03, 2025
Tim Grady, "Burying the Enemy: The Story of Those who Cared for the Dead in Two World Wars" (Yale UP, 2025)
52 mins; April 27, 2025
Alexandra Birch, "Hitler’s Twilight of the Gods: Music and the Orchestration of War and Genocide in Europe" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
79 hours 4 mins; April 25, 2025
Fernanda Gallo, "Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
46 mins; April 20, 2025
Stefanie Fischer and Kim WĂŒnschmann, "Oberbrechen: a German Village Confronts Its Nazi Past" (Oxford UP, 2024)
57 mins; April 07, 2025
Bruno Leipold, "Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2024)
53 mins; April 06, 2025
Dorothea Heiser and Stuart Taberner, eds., "My Shadow in Dachau: Poems" (Camden House, 2014)
65 hours 10 mins; April 01, 2025
Joanne Miyang Cho, et al., "German-Speaking Jewish Refugees in Asia, 1930-1950" (Routledge, 2025)
63 hours 51 mins; March 26, 2025
Thomas P. Bernstein, "Holocaust: German History and Our Half-Jewish Family" (Cherry Orchard, 2024)
84 hours 19 mins; March 24, 2025
Andrew Long, "BRIXMIS and the Secret Cold War: Intelligence Collecting Operations Behind Enemy Lines in East Germany" (Pen and Sword, 2024)
107 hours 27 mins; March 23, 2025
Laurel Leff, "Well Worth Saving: American Universities' Life-And-Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe" (Yale UP, 2019)
75 hours 25 mins; March 18, 2025
Anne Greenwood Mackinney, "Nature on Paper: Documenting Science in Prussia, 1770-1850" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2024)
40 mins; March 17, 2025
Kobi Kabalek, "Rescue and Remembrance: Imagining the German Collective After Nazism" (U Wisconsin Press, 2025)
55 mins; March 16, 2025
William Blakemore Lyon, "Forged in Genocide: Migrant Workers Shaping Colonial Capitalism in Namibia, 1890-1925" (de Gruyter, 2024)
86 hours 12 mins; March 15, 2025
Sabrina P. Ramet and Lavinia Stan, "East Central Europe Since 1989" (Routledge, 2025)
89 hours 32 mins; March 09, 2025
LĂĄszlĂł Borhi, "Survival under Dictatorships: Life and Death in Nazi and Communist Regimes" (Central European UP, 2024)
45 mins; March 03, 2025
Thanasis S. Fotiou, "Hitler’s Hunting Squad in Southern Europe: The Bloody Path of Fritz Schubert through Occupied Crete and Macedonia" (Pen and Sword, 2024)
20 mins; February 23, 2025
Shay A. Pilnik, "The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War" (Purdue UP, 2025)
86 hours 54 mins; February 22, 2025
Amit Levy, "A New Orient: From German Scholarship to Middle Eastern Studies in Israel" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
67 hours 52 mins; February 21, 2025
Marek Kohn, "The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey Through Cities at the Heart of Europe" (Yale UP, 2023)
59 mins; February 17, 2025
Saulius Suziedelis, "Crisis, War, and the Holocaust in Lithuania" (Academic Studies Press, 2025)
66 hours 30 mins; February 14, 2025
Iain D. Thomson, "Rethinking Death in and after Heidegger" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
89 hours 37 mins; February 12, 2025
Magdalena Buchczyk, "Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum: Textiles, History and Ethnography at the Museum of European Cultures, Berlin" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
51 mins; February 10, 2025
Ann Schmiesing, "The Brothers Grimm: A Biography" (Yale UP, 2024)
49 mins; February 04, 2025
Karel Margry, "Nordhausen Concentration Camp" (After the Battle, 2024)
94 hours 17 mins; January 31, 2025
Edward Westermann, "Hitler's Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars: Comparing Genocide and Conquest" (U Oklahoma Press, 2016)
93 hours 38 mins; January 29, 2025
Elizabeth Campbell, "Museum Worthy: Nazi Art Plunder in Postwar Western Europe" (Oxford UP, 2024)
56 mins; January 29, 2025
Benjamin Carter Hett, "The Nazi Menace: Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War" (Henry Holt, 2020)
81 hours 11 mins; January 28, 2025
Vera Keller, "Curating the Enlightenment: Johann Daniel Major and the Experimental Century" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
49 mins; January 27, 2025
Peter Harmsen, "Fury and Ice: Greenland, the United States and Germany in World War II" (Casemate, 2024)
68 hours 25 mins; January 27, 2025
Susan C. I. Grunewald, "From Incarceration to Repatriation: German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union" (Cornell UP, 2024)
65 hours 39 mins; January 26, 2025
Michael Sonenscher, "After Kant: The Romans, the Germans, and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)
67 hours 22 mins; January 26, 2025
Leon Saltiel, "The Holocaust in Thessaloniki: Reactions to the Anti-Jewish Persecution, 1942–1943" (Routledge, 2020)
52 mins; January 26, 2025
Richard Bourke, "Hegel’s World Revolutions" (Princeton UP, 2023)
67 hours 4 mins; January 25, 2025
Terrence C. Petty, "Nazis at the Watercooler: War Criminals in Postwar German Government Agencies" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
58 mins; January 24, 2025
Anthony McElligott, "The Last Transport: The Holocaust in the Eastern Aegean" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
80 hours 52 mins; January 20, 2025
Valentina N. Glajar, "The Secret Police Dossier of Herta MĂŒller: A "File Story" of Cold War Surveillance" (Camden House, 2023)
96 hours 18 mins; January 17, 2025
Frank Trentmann, "Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022" (Knopf, 2024)
55 mins; January 16, 2025
Mark Celinscak, "Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp" (U Toronto Press, 2015)
74 hours 29 mins; January 16, 2025
Nitzan Lebovic, "Homo Temporalis: German Jewish Thinkers on Time" (Cornell UP, 2025)
98 hours 27 mins; January 13, 2025
Jacob Flaws, "Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
54 mins; January 09, 2025
David A. Harrisville, "The Virtuous Wehrmacht: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944" (Cornell UP, 2021)
60 hours 19 mins; January 07, 2025
Doris L. Bergen, "Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
123 hours 6 mins; January 02, 2025
Diana Dumitru, "The State, Antisemitism, and Collaboration in the Holocaust: The Borderlands of Romania and the Soviet Union" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
109 hours 20 mins; December 26, 2024
Christian Bailey, "German Jews in Love: A History" (Stanford UP, 2022)
70 hours 18 mins; December 20, 2024
Kenny Cupers, "The Earth That Modernism Built: Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design" (U Texas Press, 2024)
78 hours 28 mins; December 17, 2024
Katya Motyl, "Embodied Histories: New Womanhood in Vienna, 1894–1934" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
51 mins; December 14, 2024
David J. Collins, SJ, "Disenchanting Albert the Great: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Magician" (Penn State UP, 2024)
64 hours 26 mins; December 12, 2024
Jacob Flaws, "Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
58 mins; December 09, 2024
Richard J. Evans, "Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich" (Penguin, 2024)
62 hours 44 mins; December 08, 2024
Cristina Vatulescu, "Reading the Archival Revolution: Declassified Stories and Their Challenges" (Stanford UP, 2024)
45 mins; December 08, 2024
Jeffrey M. Pilcher, "Hopped Up: How Travel, Trade, and Taste Made Beer a Global Commodity" (Oxford UP, 2024)
52 mins; December 06, 2024
Richard J. Golsan, "Justice in Lyon: Klaus Barbie and France's First Trial for Crimes Against Humanity" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
81 hours 9 mins; December 06, 2024
Maria Adamopoulou, "The Greek Gastarbeiter in the Federal Republic of Germany (1960–1974)" (de Gruyter, 2024)
84 hours 34 mins; November 30, 2024
Daniel Cowling, "Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans: The British Occupation of Germany, 1945-49" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
70 hours 57 mins; November 28, 2024
Arthur W. Gullachsen, "The Defeat and Attrition of the 12. SS-Panzer-Division 'Hitlerjugend' (Casemate, 2024)
45 mins; November 27, 2024
Nina Valbousquet, "Lukewarm Souls: The Vatican facing the Shoah" (La Découverte, 2024)
62 hours 19 mins; November 26, 2024
Luisa Weiss, "Classic German Cooking" (Ten Speed Press, 2024)
47 mins; November 23, 2024
Owen Ware, "Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany" (Routledge, 2023)
59 mins; November 20, 2024
Nicholas Baer, "Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism" (U California Press, 2024)
36 mins; November 16, 2024
Linguistic Diversity as a Bureaucratic Challenge
41 mins; November 15, 2024
Maksim Goldenshteyn, "So They Remember: A Jewish Family’s Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
87 hours 38 mins; November 13, 2024
Anne Berg, "Empire of Rags and Bones: Waste and War in Nazi Germany" (Oxford UP, 2024)
59 mins; November 11, 2024
Anette Hoffmann, "Knowing by Ear: Listening to Voice Recordings with African Prisoners of War in German Camps (1915–1918)" (Duke UP, 2024)
42 mins; November 09, 2024
Kristina Kolbe, "The Sound of Difference: Race, Class and the Politics of 'Diversity' in Classical Music" (Manchester UP, 2024)
50 mins; November 02, 2024
Friederike Baer, "Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War" (Oxford UP, 2022)
61 hours 7 mins; October 30, 2024
Steven T. Katz, "The Holocaust and New World Slavery: A Comparative History, Volume 2" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
52 mins; October 22, 2024
Vanessa Christina Wills, "Marx's Ethical Vision" (Oxford UP, 2024)
58 mins; October 21, 2024
Thomas Weber, “Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi” (Basic Books, 2017)
71 hours 9 mins; October 18, 2024
Rachel O'Sullivan, "Nazi Germany, Annexed Poland and Colonial Rule: Resettlement, Germanization and Population Policies in Comparative Perspective" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
61 hours 5 mins; October 16, 2024
Meghana Joshi, "Children are Everywhere: Conspicuous Reproduction and Childlessness in Reunified Berlin" (Berghahn, 2024)
57 mins; October 15, 2024
A Deep Dive on Karl Marx's "Capital"
157 hours 7 mins; October 07, 2024
Nick Lloyd, "The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918" (Norton, 2024)
53 mins; October 06, 2024
Jeffrey Ding, "Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition" (Princeton UP, 2024)
34 mins; October 05, 2024
Steven T. Katz, "The Holocaust and New World Slavery: A Comparative History" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
56 mins; September 30, 2024
J. C. D. Clark, "The Enlightenment: An Idea and Its History" (Oxford UP, 2024)
30 mins; September 28, 2024
Waitman Wade Beorn, "Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
86 hours 36 mins; September 27, 2024
Anthony Tucker-Jones, "The Fall of Berlin: The Final Days of Hitler's Evil Regime" (Sirius, 2024)
81 hours 48 mins; September 25, 2024
Francesco Lotoro, "The Lost Music of the Holocaust: Bringing the Music of the Camps to the Ears of the World at Last" (Headline, 2024)
89 hours 55 mins; September 24, 2024
The Far-Right Threat in German Politics: A Discussion with Marcus Böick
35 mins; September 23, 2024
Lucy Weir, "Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury" (Routledge, 2024)
38 mins; September 21, 2024
Tom Navon, "Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust: Otto Heller (1897–1945)" (SUNY Press, 2024)
61 hours 59 mins; September 21, 2024
William H. F. Altman, "The German Stranger: Leo Strauss and National Socialism" (Lexington Books, 2010)
129 hours 4 mins; September 18, 2024
Karl Marx, "Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1" (Princeton UP, 2024)
35 mins; September 16, 2024
Isaac Nakhimovsky, "The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation" (Princeton UP, 2024)
70 hours 25 mins; September 12, 2024
Dan Stone, "Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust" (Oxford UP, 2023)
67 hours 27 mins; September 05, 2024
Colette Brull-Ulmann et al., "Through the Morgue Door: One Woman’s Story of Survival and Saving Children in German-Occupied Paris" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
186 hours 45 mins; September 01, 2024
Aleksander Pluskowski, "The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation" (Reaktion, 2024)
54 mins; August 30, 2024
What is Going on with Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe?
40 mins; August 30, 2024
Ellen Hampton, "Doctors at War: The Clandestine Battle Against the Nazi Occupation of France" (LSU Press, 2023)
56 mins; August 28, 2024