PSA: If you're mid-career, & you're not invited to speak as much as you'd like (😐) you're not on journal or press boards, or co-authoring/editing volumes, you might want to look to yourself. If ppl trust & like you, you'll be asked to do more than you could possibly have time for. Try being nicer.

Just added all my thesis chapters into one document. Bearing in mind one of them doesn't even have footnotes included and that this doesn't include the intro or conclusion. I'm done for, even if the word limit is 120K (could be worse).

Trump says he has no intention to send troops into Iran, which either means he's about to invade Iran or it means absolutely nothing and is meant to calm the markets.

A question for academics who have served on hiring committees for postdoctoral positions (not permanent jobs, not teaching-only jobs): Is not having actually received the PhD/not having passed the Viva something which puts someone's application at the bottom of the pile?

I appreciate this account proving my point for me. There are lots of bad and criminal things out there, but they aren’t all genocide. And that’s ok! They don’t have to be. But genocide has an actual definition with actual legal elements to it.

From the article: “Those restorers knew what they were doing,” Dr. Blewett said. “They knew it was about accumulating information to kill people.” This is complete nonsense as a general characterization. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/w...

If anyone wants to watch Kobi Kabalek and I talk about his excellent book (and my mini-presentation on why 50,000 rescuers during the Holocaust is actually rather a lot when viewed in the right statistical context), here is the link: youtu.be/BX8GbKfElYM?...

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