Nearly a 100 years after its closure, the Bauhaus is again in the crosshairs of far-right extremists: in Saxony-Anhalt, the German federal state where the Bauhaus Dessau campus is located, the AfD has plans to "heal" the "lack of national identity" they see embodied by it.

Crazy story here in Germany. An entire family has been stripped of their citizenship. www.welt.de/vermischtes/...

Neuer Sammelband in der Schriftenreihe der Gedenkstätte Esterwegen erschienen: „Durchsetzung der Diktatur. Frühe Konzentrationslager im Nationalsozialismus.“ Mehr: www.gedenkstaette-esterwegen.de/aktuelles/de... @dachaumemorial.bsky.social @sachsenhausen.bsky.social

My favourite newspaper headline ever. www.ft.com/content/c6e5...

HOPE not hate reveals the key figures behind Raise the Colours, exposing their criminal histories and their intimidation of local people. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/05/25/r...

Quelle surprise. www.ft.com/content/091c...

You are creating that debate. There is no debate. There is a far right talking point and a media willing to traffic it into the mainstream.

Yesterday #r4today and Webb amplified Farage's racist rubbish, later in the day the BBC gave Goodwin air time to spew his own rubbish. Now Today is wondering why there were riots in Southampton last night... it is long past time the BBC recognised it is complicit in what is happening

Our Rudy is obsessed with Spring Watch.

There is no-one whose input this city needs less right now. www.ft.com/content/1f9c...

Later this week we will be convening the international conference “Imperial Legacies? (Dis)continuities and Comparisons between Colonialism and Nazi Rule.” For background on the conference please visit: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

Merely the latest iteration of the British aristocracy’s long dalliance with fascism - www.ft.com/content/ebb7...

I’m struggling to find the right adjective to characterise David Edgerton’s critique of Starmer and Starmer’s Labour project in the New Statesman magazine. Fierce? Devastating? magazine.newstatesman.com/2026/05/17/t...

Es werde (Neon)licht. There are many great neon signs in Köln, but few as iconic as the Reissdorf Biermännchen. Not only does the animated arm raise a glass of beer, but the ‘Er trinkt’ turns into ‘Sie trinkt’.

Year 32 of teaching done…..

Every single member of the History Department at Uni of Nottingham is at risk of redundancy. Every single one of us.

Hope dies last. observer.co.uk/news/politic...

So apparently we've marked VE Day by voting en masse for nationalism, populism, nativism, racism, hostility to multi-culturalism... Splendid.

¡No Pasarán!

University Lecturer, European Studies jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Not my usual scene, but quite enjoying the annual conference of the Deutsche Akademie f. Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Volkach a lovely setting, not just because of the Silvaner…..

“Weimar Germany, 1918/19–1933,” the final volume of our relaunched “German History in Documents and Images” primary source project, is now published and available! You can find the expanded edition, edited and with a new introduction by Erik Jensen, here: germanhistorydocs.org/en/weimar-ge...

Ab wann war Opa in der #NSDAP? Die Suche in der öffentlichen Datenbank ist mühsam, deshalb hat die DIE ZEIT eine feiner erschlossene Datenbank online gestellt - hinter einer Paywall. Das kritisiert Max Grund#NSDAP?und empfiehlt weiterhin die Anfrage beim Bundesarchiv.

An excellent opportunity - do apply!

Strava saying ‘you seriously crushed it!’ when all you did is jog a couple of kilometres at the speed of a tortoise in need of a hip replacement is AI’s one redeeming feature.

Brilliant and compelling essay by @deborahfeldman.bsky.social blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

Well worth a read.

Florida verbannt die Soziologie aus den Lehrplänen der staatlichen Unis. Gesellschaftstheorien sind für faschistisch-autoritäre Systeme natürlich eine Bedrohung.

A pox on the QS World Rankings.

Just the Chief Exec of the Russell Group cosying up to Farage on behalf of us all. www.ft.com/content/bc2d...

Bei der "Stiftung Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung" droht eine „Machtübernahme“ durch den #BdV, warnt Andreas Kilb in der FAZ - mit unabsehbaren Folgen nicht nur für die deutsche #Erinnerungskultur, sondern auch für das deutsch-polnische Verhältnis. #SFVV #Polen (1/4)

Party in Cardiff 🏟️

Jürgen Habermas ist heute im Alter von 96 Jahren in Starnberg verstorben.

The German History Society is proud to release the call for papers for our 2026 Annual Conference, held this year at the University of Stirling! The deadline for papers is the 14 April 2026. For more information check our website here: www.germanhistorysociety.org/conference/

Excellent news - congratulations to both!

Publication day! 🥳 #TheLongDeathOfAdolfHitler is officially out now! Thank you so much to the amazing team @yalebooks.bsky.social for making this possible, to everyone who has read drafts & offered feedback along the way, and to all those who are currently buying/reading it!

The @dhi-paris.fr and Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah have launched a new one-year research fellowship on the history of the Holocaust in France/Western Europe! Deadline for this first round of applications: April 1. More details below 👇👇👇 www.dhi-paris.fr/fileadmin/us...

New online portal with documents on the post 1945 German far right. radikale-rechte.de

Save the date: Our colleague, Prof. Neil Gregor, will give a talk on "The Nazi Party Rally Grounds – Past, Present, Future" at Arundells in Salisbury on 1 September arundells.org/events/the-n...

Yesterday we welcomed @neilgregor.bsky.social for a lecture on The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany. He reflected on audience’s experience and how everyday cultural life became intertwined with Nazi ideology. Interested to learn more? You can purchase the book here 👇

𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫: 𝐇𝐲𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐝 𝐋𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰 (𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐬, 𝟒 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡). @neilgregor.bsky.social will reflect on what the study of orchestras and their audiences can tell us about the social and cultural history of Nazi Germany. The event will be followed by a reception, and you can register using the links below.

Seit heute ist Oliver Rathkolb, Österreichs bekanntester Historiker, STANDARD-Kolumnist. Seine erste Kolumne widmet sich Dirigent Herbert Karajan und dessen offenbarer Entnazifierung. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Noch bis 10.03. ist im Rathaus #Hamburg die #Ausstellung „Kultur unter Kontrolle. Hamburger Kultureinrichtungen und die Kulturverwaltung im Nationalsozialismus“ zu sehen. Dabei geht es auch um die Rolle der Museen, etwa im Bezug auf NS-Raubkunst: musermeku.org/kultur-unter... #kultur #geschichte

📢 Unsere erste Veranstaltung im März: Polnische Bürgermeister und der Holocaust. Besatzung, Verwaltung und Kollaboration Buchpräsentation: PD Dr. Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe Moderation: Dr. Markus Nesselrodt 📆 Di., 3.3.26 🕖 19 Uhr ❗Anmeldung erforderlich Infos: www.topographie.de/veranstaltun...