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Adam Rosenblatt, “Digging for the Disappeared: Forensic Science After Atrocity” (Stanford UP, 2015)
Episode 306
Do dead bodies have human rights?
This is one of many fascinating questions Adam Rosenblatt asks in his compelling new book Digging for the Disappear…
11 years ago
Shelly Cline, “Women at Work: The SS Aufseherin and the Gendered Perpetration of the Holocaust” (Ph. D. Diss, U of Kansas, 2014)
Episode 305
Is it ok–practically and ethically–to feel sympathetic toward the guards of concentration camps?
Today’s interview marks the conclusion of my summer-…
11 years, 1 month ago
Dan Stone, “The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and its Aftermath” (Yale UP, 2015)
Episode 304
Every year I ask my students to tell me when the Holocaust ended. Most of them are surprised to hear me say that it has not yet.
Today’s podcast is t…
11 years, 2 months ago
Nikolaus Wachsmann, “KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps” (FSG, 2015)
Episode 303
Today’s podcast is the second in our summer series of interviews about the concentration camps in and around Nazi Germany. Earlier this summer I talk…
11 years, 2 months ago
Sarah Helm, “Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women” (Nan A. Talese, 2015)
Episode 301
Today’s podcast is the second in our summer series of interviews about the concentration camps in and around Nazi Germany. Earlier this summer I tal…
11 years, 3 months ago
Geoff Megargee, ed., “The USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos,” Vols. 1 and 2 (Indiana UP, 2009 and 2012)
Episode 300
Every semester when I get to the point in World Civ when we’re talking about Nazi Germany, I ask my students to guess how many camps and ghettos ther…
11 years, 3 months ago
Anton Weiss-Wendt, “The Nazi Genocide of the Roma” (Berghahn, 2015) and “Racial Science in Hitler’s New Europe” (U of Nebraska Press, 2013)
Episode 299
Normally I don’t try and talk about two books in the same interview. But, in discussing the interview, Anton Weiss-Wendt suggested that it made sens…
11 years, 3 months ago
Scott Straus, “Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership and Genocide in Modern Africa” (Cornell University Press, 2015)
Episode 298
Who, in the field of genocide studies, hasn’t at least once used the phrase “The century of genocide?” Books carry the title, journalists quote it i…
11 years, 4 months ago
Emily Kuriloff, “Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Third Reich” (Routledge, 2013)
Episode 297
In her new book, Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Third Reich: History, Memory, Tradition (Routledge, 2013), Emily Kuriloff details a dimension of…
11 years, 5 months ago
Juergen Matthaus et al., “War, Pacification and Mass Murder, 1939: The Einsatzgruppen in Poland” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
Episode 293
Historians have spent the last two decades detailing and explaining the actions of the Einsatzgruppen in the Soviet Union. We now know much more tha…
11 years, 5 months ago