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Guenter Lewy, “Perpetrators: The World of the Holocaust Killers” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Episode 366
“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous.”
Thus begins Guenter Lewy’s latest book, Perpetrators: The World of the Holoca…
8 years, 11 months ago
Sara E. Brown, “Gender and the Genocide in Rwanda: Women as Rescuers and Perpetrators” (Routledge, 2017)
Episode 365
Thanks to Scott Straus, Leanne Fujii and others, we know quite a bit about how men behaved during the genocide in Rwanda. But we know surprisingly li…
8 years, 11 months ago
Lawrence R. Douglas, “The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial” (Princeton UP, 2016)
Episode 364
In his new book, The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial (Princeton University Press 2016), Lawrence R. Douglas,…
8 years, 11 months ago
Nicholas O’Shaughnessy, “Marketing the Third Reich: Persuasion, Packaging, and Propaganda” (Routledge, 2017)
Episode 362
One of the defining characteristics of the Nazi regime that ruled Germany from 1933 until 1945 was its attention to presentation as a means of winnin…
8 years, 11 months ago
Benjamin Madley, “An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873” (Yale UP, 2016)
Episode 361
In less than thirty years, California’s Indian population fell from 150,000 to 30,000. In An American Genocide: The United States and the California …
9 years ago
Christian Ingrao, “Believe and Destroy: Intellectuals in the SS War Machine” (Polity Press, 2015)
Episode 360
How did a generation of Germany’s best and brightest become radicalized? What convinced young intellectuals to join the SS and perpetrate genocide in…
9 years ago
Walter Scheidel, “The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality” (Princeton UP, 2017)
Episode 359
In 2017 half of the world’s wealth belongs to the top 1% of the population. In his new book, The Great Leveler Violence and the History of Inequality…
9 years ago
Alexander Prusin, “Serbia under the Swastika: A World War II Occupation” (U. Illinois Press, 2017)
Episode 358
In Serbia under the Swastika: A World War II Occupation (University of Illinois Press, 2017), Alexander Prusin delineates the Nazi occupation of Yugo…
9 years ago
Henri Lustiger-Thaler and Habbo Knoch, eds., “Witnessing Unbound: Holocaust Representation and the Origins of Memory” (Wayne State UP, 2017)
Episode 357
Witnessing Unbound: Holocaust Representation and the Origins of Memory (Wayne State University Press, 2017) is a collection of essays and intervie…
9 years, 1 month ago
Max Bergholz, “Violence as a Generative Force: Identity, Nationalism and Memory in a Balkan Community” (Cornell UP, 2016)
Episode 355
People study atrocities and mass violence for a variety of reasons. When asked, many offer thoughtful intellectual or political explanations for thei…
9 years, 2 months ago