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Erik Jan Hanussen is potentially the first Christian of Jewish origin murdered by the Nazis. I do not assume that he was a non-Jewish 'Jew', because his conversion in early 1933 seems to have been for mostly practical reasons and I could find little information about his identity. 1/2

I fear our approach to AI cannot be MAD. The destruction it will wreak is not obvious enough to be held as a Sword of Damocles over the head of others. Instead, we must never develop the atom bomb in this instance. No to proliferation.

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

Feeling the pressure to get a postdoc at the moment. If anyone has a cushy position available that I could take up in Sept/Oct 2026, let me know ;). I am not even joking. Some nepotism would be wonderful right about now.

Preorder page has the cover now!

Thankful today that the UK has strict gun laws.

Thoughts with my Jewish British friends today.

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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

Hitler was apparently the average millennial

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...

Just read something I wrote a week ago and that shit is utterly abysmal. Time to retire

Don't forget this place is a horrendous echo chamber

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.

Forgot to post this earlier, but this piece by @dirkmoses.bsky.social is well worth a read. Subtle references to various historical and historiographical moments make it not only informative but entertaining. blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

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

I just know that the motivation for this review article had nothing to do with anything scholarly. If anyone ever does this to me, just know that I will check every footnote in your books from 20 years ago :D

Does anyone know of a (preferably free) tool which I could use to map the distribution of people from a data set please? It needs to have circles or something which can grow according to the number of people from Berlin, for example.

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...

I've just written an absolute masterpiece.

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

Taner Akçam, Marianne Hirsch, and I introduce the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network and call for immediate concrete measures to prevent further atrocity crimes and to protect civilians in Gaza.

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).

Very! And for the right reasons. I only read the introduction and I'm not a holocaust scholar so I can't speak to the importance within the discipline, but I'm already sharing with some friends who will be interested.

Check out my new article. It's very controversial!