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Maxim Shrayer, "I Saw It: Ilya Selvinsky and the Legacy of Bearing Witness to the Shoah" (Academic Studies Press, 2013)

58 mins; November 19, 2023

Andrew Brandel, "Moving Words: Literature, Memory, and Migration in Berlin" (U Toronto Press, 2023)

49 mins; November 19, 2023

Nicole Eaton, "German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad" (Cornell UP, 2023)

72 hours 16 mins; November 18, 2023

Anthony Tucker-Jones, "Battle of the Cities: Urban Warfare on the Eastern Front" (Pen & Sword Military, 2023)

79 hours 30 mins; November 17, 2023

Martin Jay, "Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School under Pressure" (Verso, 2023)

82 hours 23 mins; November 15, 2023

Ernest R. Zimmermann, "The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior: A History of Canadian Internment Camp R" (U Alberta Press, 2015)

93 hours 13 mins; November 13, 2023

Michael Custodis, "Music and Resistance: Cultural Defense During the German Occupation of Norway 1940-45" (Waxmann Verlag, 2021)

85 hours 16 mins; November 02, 2023

Agata Fijalkowski, "Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial" (Routledge, 2023)

69 hours 14 mins; October 30, 2023

Adam Bisno, "Big Business and the Crisis of German Democracy: Liberalism and the Grand Hotels of Berlin, 1875-1933" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

56 mins; October 28, 2023

Linda Kinstler, "Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends" (PublicAffairs, 2023)

43 mins; October 26, 2023

Sebastian Huebel, "Fighter, Worker, and Family Man: German-Jewish Men and Their Gendered Experiences in Nazi Germany, 1933–1941" (U Toronto Press, 2022)

93 hours 0 mins; October 23, 2023

Sonja K. Pieck, "Mnemonic Ecologies: Memory and Nature Conservation along the Former Iron Curtain" (MIT Press, 2023)

52 mins; October 22, 2023

Kevin Passmore, "Fascism: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2014)

43 mins; October 22, 2023

The Family in History, History in the Family: National Identity in Nineteenth-century Kyiv and Immigration Politics in West Germany after 1955

66 hours 1 min; October 21, 2023

Nan Turner, "Clothing Goes to War: Creativity Inspired by Scarcity in World War II" (Intellect Books, 2022)

50 mins; October 05, 2023

Ole Kristian Grimnes, "Norway in the Second World War: Politics, Society and Conflict" (Bloombury, 2022)

101 hours 35 mins; October 04, 2023

Kristin Semmens, "Under the Swastika in Nazi Germany" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

69 hours 26 mins; October 03, 2023

Derk Venema, "Supreme Courts Under Nazi Occupation" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)

96 hours 11 mins; October 01, 2023

Damani Partridge, "Blackness As a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin" (U California Press, 2022)

43 mins; September 24, 2023

Martyn C. Rady, "The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe" (Basic Books, 2023)

89 hours 12 mins; September 23, 2023

Ruth Schwertfeger, "A Nazi Camp Near Danzig: Perspectives on Shame and on the Holocaust from Stutthof" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

59 mins; September 22, 2023

Katarzyna Person and Johannes-Dieter Steinert, "Przemysłowa Concentration Camp: The Camp, the Children, the Trials" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

88 hours 47 mins; September 21, 2023

Rachel Chrastil, "Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe" (Basic Book, 2023)

59 mins; September 17, 2023

Prit Buttar, "To Besiege a City: Leningrad 1941-42" (Osprey, 2023)

98 hours 24 mins; September 14, 2023

A Better Way to Buy Books

32 mins; September 12, 2023

Katja Hoyer, "Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany" (Basic Books, 2023)

34 mins; September 08, 2023

Valerie Hébert ed., "Framing the Holocaust: Photographs of a Mass Shooting in Latvia, 1941" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)

56 mins; September 07, 2023

Tomaz Jardim, "Ilse Koch on Trial: Making the 'Bitch of Buchenwald'" (Harvard UP, 2023)

56 mins; September 06, 2023

Nancy L. Segal, "The Twin Children of the Holocaust: Stolen Childhood and the Will to Survive" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)

56 mins; September 05, 2023

Una McIlvenna, "Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900" (Oxford UP, 2022)

52 mins; August 31, 2023

Mikkel Dack, "Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany: The Fragebogen Questionnaire and Political Screening During the Allied Occupation" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

42 mins; August 30, 2023

On “Henry Kissinger and His World” with author Barry Gewen

59 mins; August 29, 2023

Wolf Gruner, "Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler's Germany" (Yale UP, 2023)

82 hours 53 mins; August 29, 2023

Kaius Tuori, "Empire of Law: Nazi Germany, Exile Scholars and the Battle for the Future of Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

51 mins; August 16, 2023

Esra Özyürek, "Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany" (Stanford UP, 2023)

43 mins; August 10, 2023

Jon Stewart, "A History of Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century: Confrontations with Nothingness" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

72 hours 59 mins; August 09, 2023

Michael Roper, "Afterlives of War: A Descendants' History" (Manchester UP, 2023)

52 mins; August 09, 2023

Steven Press, "Blood and Diamonds: Germany's Imperial Ambitions in Africa" (Harvard UP, 2021)

82 hours 36 mins; August 08, 2023

Alexander Hill, "The War on the Eastern Front: The Soviet Union, 1941-1945 - A Photographic History" (Pen & Sword Military, 2021)

50 mins; August 01, 2023

50 Years after Martin Jay's "The Dialectical Imagination"

113 hours 8 mins; July 24, 2023

Heidi Hausse, "The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany" (Manchester UP, 2023)

52 mins; July 21, 2023

Wirsching: Bombay Talkies B-Side

14 mins; July 20, 2023

Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg, "Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust" (Cornell UP, 2018)

72 hours 7 mins; July 19, 2023

Judith Roumani, "Jews in Southern Tuscany During the Holocaust" (Lexington Books, 2020)

88 hours 38 mins; July 15, 2023

Danny Orbach, "Fugitives: A History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold War" (Pegasus Books, 2022)

58 mins; July 05, 2023

Malcolm F. Purinton, "Globalization in a Glass: The Rise of Pilsner Beer through Technology, Taste and Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

47 mins; July 03, 2023

Edward Kissi, "Africans and the Holocaust: Perceptions and Responses of Colonized and Sovereign Peoples" (Routledge, 2021)

114 hours 14 mins; June 29, 2023

Marcello Musto, "The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography" (Stanford UP, 2020)

127 hours 34 mins; June 25, 2023

Liisa Kovala, "Surviving Stutthof: My Father's Ordeal in a Nazi Concentration Camp" (Latitude 46, 2017)

74 hours 3 mins; June 19, 2023

David Stahel, "Hitler's Panzer Generals: Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt Unguarded" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

65 hours 10 mins; June 18, 2023

Socialist Cultures and Politics of Secularism and Atheism

72 hours 43 mins; June 13, 2023

Stephen G. Gross, "Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change" (Oxford UP, 2023)

74 hours 25 mins; June 13, 2023

R. T. Howard, "Spying on the Reich: The Cold War Against Hitler" (Oxford UP, 2023)

34 mins; June 11, 2023

New Histories of Violence in and around the Second World War

83 hours 51 mins; June 10, 2023

Robert Kershaw, "Dünkirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk" (Osprey, 2022)

51 mins; May 23, 2023

Elly Gotz, "Flights of Spirit" (Azrieli Foundation, 2018)

55 mins; May 20, 2023

Simon Geissbühler, ed., "Romania and the Holocaust: Events, Contexts, Aftermath" (Ibidem Press, 2016)

57 mins; May 19, 2023

Andrew I. Port, "Never Again: Germans and Genocide After the Holocaust" (Harvard UP, 2023)

75 hours 37 mins; May 17, 2023

Benjamin Balint, "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History" (Norton, 2023)

31 mins; May 10, 2023

Ostap Kin, "Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond" (HURI, 2022)

51 mins; April 29, 2023

Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics

32 mins; April 25, 2023

Why do Transatlantic Relations Matter?

41 mins; April 24, 2023

Tom Hutton, "Hitler's Maladies and Their Impact on World War II" (Texas Tech UP, 2023)

47 mins; April 23, 2023

Crispin Brooks and Kiril Feferman, "Beyond the Pale: The Holocaust in the North Caucasus" (U Rochester Press, 2020)

109 hours 0 mins; April 22, 2023

Timothy Sean Quinn, "Apiqoros: The Last Essays of Salomon Maimon" (Hebrew Union College Press, 2021)

94 hours 12 mins; April 18, 2023

Heidi Langbein-Allen, "Save the Last Bullet: Memoir of a Boy Soldier in Hitler's Army" (Pen & Sword Military, 2022)

51 mins; April 16, 2023

Piotr M. A. Cywiński, "Auschwitz: A Monograph on the Human" (Muzeum Auschwitz, 2022)

60 hours 8 mins; April 16, 2023

Arthur W. Gullachsen, "Bloody Verrières: the I. SS-Panzerkorps Defence of the Verrières-Bourguebus Ridges (Volume 2) (Casemate, 2023)

57 mins; April 15, 2023

David Baumeister, "Kant on the Human Animal: Anthropology, Ethics, Race" (Northwestern UP, 2022)

40 mins; April 12, 2023

Thomas M. Lekan, "Our Gigantic Zoo: A German Quest to Save the Serengeti" (Oxford UP, 2020)

76 hours 33 mins; April 11, 2023

Iain MacGregor, "The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: The Hidden Truth at the Heart of the Greatest Battle of World War II" (Scribner, 2022)

62 hours 28 mins; April 09, 2023

Helene J. Sinnreich, "The Atrocity of Hunger: Starvation in the Warsaw, Lodz and Krakow Ghettos during World War II" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

43 mins; April 07, 2023

David I. Kertzer, "The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler" (Random House, 2022)

27 mins; April 06, 2023

Ari Joskowicz, "Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust" (Princeton UP, 2023)

64 hours 53 mins; April 02, 2023

Kieron Pim, "Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth" (Granta Books, 2022)

57 mins; March 26, 2023

Tom Dunkel, "White Knights in the Black Orchestra: The Extraordinary Story of the Germans Who Resisted Hitler" (Hachette Books, 2021)

66 hours 58 mins; March 19, 2023

Philip W. Blood, "Birds of Prey: Hitler's Luftwaffe, Ordinary Soldiers, and the Holocaust in Poland" (Ibidem Press, 2021)

64 hours 21 mins; March 13, 2023

The Sobibor and Treblinka Death Camps: A Discussion with Chris Webb

64 hours 5 mins; March 08, 2023

Kyrill Kunakhovich, "Communism's Public Sphere: Culture As Politics in Cold War Poland and East Germany" (Cornell UP, 2023)

67 hours 57 mins; March 01, 2023

Soviet Hippies and German “Other ‘68ers”: A Conversation about Youth Non-Conformity and Protest

65 hours 56 mins; February 28, 2023

More on Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust

78 hours 35 mins; February 24, 2023

Peter Hayes, "Why? Explaining the Holocaust" (Norton, 2017)

62 hours 36 mins; February 22, 2023

Sara Pugach, "African Students in East Germany, 1949-1975" (U Michigan Press, 2022)

66 hours 45 mins; February 17, 2023

Rūta Vanagaitė and Efraim Zuroff, "Our People: Discovering Lithuania's Hidden Holocaust" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)

51 mins; February 15, 2023

Jacky Comforty, "The Stolen Narrative of the Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust" (Lexington Books, 2021)

83 hours 58 mins; February 13, 2023

Canadian Witnesses to the Horrors of the Holocaust

30 mins; February 13, 2023

Tore Jørgensen, "Stutthof Diaries Collection: For Truth & Honor" (FriesenPress, 2022)

91 hours 22 mins; February 12, 2023

Robert J. Dostal, "Gadamer's Hermeneutics: Between Phenomenology and Dialectic" (Northwestern UP, 2022)

42 mins; February 07, 2023

Anthony Tucker-Jones, "Kursk 1943: Hitler's Bitter Harvest" (History Press, 2018)

71 hours 14 mins; February 04, 2023

Michah Gottlieb, "The Jewish Reformation: Bible Translation and Middle-Class German Judaism As Spiritual Enterprise" (Oxford UP, 2021)

38 mins; February 04, 2023

Chris Webb, "The Belzec Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance" (Ibidem, 2016)

37 mins; January 31, 2023

Sebastian Truskolaski, "Adorno and the Ban on Images" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

58 mins; January 30, 2023

Radu Ioanid, "The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Roma Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)

82 hours 22 mins; January 28, 2023

Susannah Heschel, "The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany" (Princeton UP, 2010)

63 hours 59 mins; January 26, 2023

Michael Fleming, "In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission, and the Search for Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

62 hours 58 mins; January 25, 2023

Wolfgang P. Müller, "Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215-1517" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

50 mins; January 21, 2023

The Future of the European Left

47 mins; January 20, 2023

James M. Deem, "The Prisoners of Breendonk: Personal Histories from a World War II Concentration Camp" (Mariner Books, 2020)

66 hours 38 mins; January 16, 2023

Stuart Carroll, "Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

51 mins; January 16, 2023

Richard Wolin, "Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology" (Yale UP, 2023)

113 hours 11 mins; January 10, 2023

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