On Feb 22 I'll be talking with Kobi Kabalek about his stimulating and even potentially controversial new book. The event is online and anyone can attend. My comments will be informed by debates on German popular opinion and the connection between Holocaust memory and historiographical trends.

On Feb 22 I'll be talking with Kobi Kabalek about his stimulating and even potentially controversial new book. The event is online and anyone can attend. My comments will be informed by debates on German popular opinion and the connection between Holocaust memory and historiographical trends.

First they came for the Lit Review

Liebe deutsche Autoren, im Namen der Wissenschaft bitte ich Sie: Führen Sie in Ihren Büchern nicht nur Personenregister, sondern auch Sachregister.

Really looking forward to this! Feel free to come out! It's free and online!

Trump isn't following the Hitler script insofar as the script is very common amongst all dictators, and not just fascists. Stalin very famously involed the memory of being surrounded by Western powers during the earlier civil war to justify terror tactics in the 1930s (and other moments too).

And now there is some coverage of my work in a Spanish Jewish outlet, which appears to have translated the Jerusalem Post piece: itongadol.com/cultura/como...

Can anyone recommend Viennese archives which have a collection of Jewish (and "Jewish") ego-documents? I've got the VWI, IKG, DOEW, anything else?

I asked our university's official AI assistant to draw a map of Poland in 1941. Great stuff. Glad we are steering our students toward this helpful resource.

Not me going to Newcastle for a conference tomorrow the day after they lose to Sunderland 💀 😭

When people you know make the news. In a good way. @harrylegg.bsky.social www.jpost.com/history/arti...

Very surprised but grateful that the Jerusalem Post of all newspapers has written a favourable piece on my recent Journal of Genocide Research article. It seems they really understood the spirit behind it, even if they slightly misread the specifics: www.jpost.com/history/arti...

Very surprised but grateful that the Jerusalem Post of all newspapers has written a favourable piece on my recent Journal of Genocide Research article. It seems they really understood the spirit behind it, even if they slightly misread the specifics: www.jpost.com/history/arti...

Historians on hiring, tenure, and promotion committees should be cautious about relying on Google Scholar, and we need to fight against others using it to assess us. I just noticed three citations to my articles in an American Historical Review article by Jo Guldi, and none show up in my profile.

Did some teaching and then wrote some blogs about teaching and am now "Associate Fellow" of something or rather. Nice.

Rest in peace Daniel Naroditsky. Heartbroken that he has died :( sad beyond words.

This tweet is one of many examples of why it's necessary to portray accurately the way the Nazi definition of "Jew" differed greatly from Jews' definition of Jew. People throw their hands up in horror at the suggestion that we should use scare quotes around every use of the Nazi definition 1/2

Meet the 18th cohort of the Claims Conference's #SaulKagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies: PhD candidates Lisa Storer, @alexorengog.bsky.social, Eliyau Klein, @harrylegg.bsky.social, Jovana Cveticanin, Alexandra Kramen, and postdocs Margaux Dumas & Borbala Klacsmann. fellowships.claimscon.org

🦋 With Bluesky's membership growing, here's a reminder that we've put together not one but TWO starter packs of people, journals and institutions working and publishing in our field. Follow one contemporary European historian, get 149 free! go.bsky.app/SU3jCJb

Harry Legg's article, 'I Hid for Days in the Basement' was chosen by @npapadogian.bsky.social for its use of autobiographical narrations, "[highlighting] the complexities of this hitherto understudied moment of discovery in the years before the Holocaust". [6/7] tinyurl.com/4k86mvh2

Starting today, the journal will publish on Substack. This new platform allows our authors to share short articles inspired by their work in the journal. Our debut post features Dr Anne Irfan’s piece. open.substack.com/pub/journalg...

Sign this: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

Adam Tooze is simply a legendary writer and thinker. Finally reading his "Wages of Destruction" for the first time (instead of skimming it and reading reviews) and I've never found economic history so compelling. What a phenomenal mind he has.

PhD update: just ran out of storage on my 400GB laptop. I have 3,900+ PDFs comprising some 30GBs

Just after Peter Longerich publishes his book debunking the Zustimmungsdiktatur, Götz Aly fires back with exactly the opposite conclusions:

Sometimes when you stare into the void, the void stares back... #cats

Only just saw that Wulf Kansteiner has died aged 60. Very sad to learn of this. He was very kind to me when I asked him for feedback on a postdoc proposal of mine, 6-12 months ago.

Meine Edition (2016) der Papiere des Generals Gotthard Heinrici ist jetzt auf ZeitgeschichteOpen, dem Repositorium des @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social, frei zugänglich. Gut so, denn dieses Buch, das mir wichtig ist, war wegen des WBG-Konkurses nicht mehr lieferbar. open.ifz-muenchen.de/entities/pub...

In less than a month, my new article has got 1000+ views, mainly because I spammed it in numerous newsletters. Here it is, free to read: www.tandfonline.com/doi/metrics/... I also want to highlight Jürgen Matthäus's piece again, because the link was initially broken: doi.org/10.1080/1462...

Dec 23: Israel resumes fighting after Hamas releases 85 hostages March 25: Israel breaks the ceasefire after Hamas releases 30 live hostages. Hasbara brain for 21 months now: all Hamas needs to do is to return the hostages and the war would be over

Sopade reports in the wake of the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938: "The campaign to exterminate [Vernichtungsfeldzug] German Jews has, according to all indications, entered its final stage"

From a 1938 Sopade report, in which the writer finally realizes that the Nazis attack "the Jews" not because it is convenient to have an enemy but because they fundamentally hate them above all else: 1/4

7. Most Germans were unenthusiastic about war.

Oh look, all the historians and "history buffs" are piling on a guy for staying something which is undeniable and well within the mainstream of historical opinion. If you want reading suggestions about the extent to which the population (inc. Army) supported Nazi ideology, I can provide them

Have a read: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @mrothberg.bsky.social.

Another day on Berlin public transport... This is the argument playing out right now. Peron 1 (P1) shouted at another person (P2) because their dog is unmuzzled on the bus. Another person (P3) agreed that P1 should have muzzled their dog bus is telling off P2 for making a scene and shouting.

In case anyone missed this !!

In case of interest to anyone, my response to the (polite) critiques from Juergen Matthaeus, Victoria Barnett, Amos Morris-Reich, and Mate Zombory is available to read open access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Risking flying under the radar for historians of the Holocaust/Nazi Germany is John Boyer's recent book "Austria: 1867-1955". It spends a great deal of time on the 1938-45 era, providing a very helpful summary of popular opinion, Nazi Judenpolitik, and the structure of governance, etc.

Cafes are heaven

Charlotte Beradt's "The Third Reich of Dreams" has recently been republished for a popular audience, but I came across it previously when working on my "Nazism at Night" article. It's one of those books which only discusses anxieties rather than concrete historical events -- by virtue of its 1/2

Charlotte Beradt's "The Third Reich of Dreams" has recently been republished for a popular audience, but I came across it previously when working on my "Nazism at Night" article. It's one of those books which only discusses anxieties rather than concrete historical events -- by virtue of its 1/2

Just published in the Journal of Genocide Research: my lead article for a forum I organized. In the coming days/weeks, there will be 4 responses from Victoria Barnett, Jürgen Matthäus, Amos Morris-Reich and Mate Zombory, followed by my reply My piece (free): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Following my lead article, the forum "The Nazi 'Racial Jew' in History and Memory" has now had four responses from Juergen Matthaeus, Victoria Barnett, Mate Zombory, and Amos Morris-Reich. My response to the commentaries is also published. The five links are below. 1/2

Gonna keep reposting this article till everyone has read it. Reason: I think it's genuinely important and you will actually potentially benefit from giving it a look.

Interesting new forum in the Journal of Genocide Research about history and terminology. Below is the original article by @harrylegg.bsky.social ; with responses by me, Jürgen Matthäus, Amos Morris-Reich and Mate Zombory. Here's the link to my response: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/AVYDC...

Entertaining given the current mutterings about reintroducing conscription is the fact that, when Hitler did it in Germany in 1935, older people were less excited about war per se than the fact that "young people are finally being taken to task". Sound familiar? Heh. P.172, Longerich, UW (2025).