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Silvan Niedermeier
Racism and Civil Rights: Police Torture in the American South,
1930–1955
Studies in the History of Violence in the Twentieth Century
»This book explores uncharted waters with impressive results. Silvan Niedermeier’s study of
abuse and torture in police custody in the USA from 1930 to 1955 not only fills a gap in research,
it is also eerily topical in view of current widespread torture practices to extort confessions.
A doubly important book.« — Norbert Finzsch, University of Cologne
Reports on the use of torture by American authorities in the wake of the 9/11 attacks has lead
to international awareness that the modern history of torture is not a history of its disappearance. Despite legal sanctions and moral rejection, police torture practices continue to be a
global reality.
Rassismus und Bürgerrechte.
Polizeifolter im Süden der USA
1930 – 1955
ca. 80 000 words
ISBN 978-3-86854-283-7
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Contemporary practices by US authorities have their antecedents in the practice of torture in the American South between 1930 and 1955. Niedermeier has mined archival
sources—some now used in historical research for the first time— as well as court records
and press reporting to examine torture perpetrated against African-Americans interned in
prisons, jails, and police stations in the Southern states. The author reconstructs attempts by
Black defendants to make torture an issue during trials. Analysis of documents from the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People retraces the campaigns of
Afro-American civil rights activists to end »forced confessions« and abuse of suspects in
police custody. And records of investigations conducted by the Justice Department and the
FBI are scrutinized to reveal what role federal authorities played in combating torture.
Torture is closely linked to structures that perpetuate discrimination and intolerance, to
political cycles and shifting strategies and tropes of political legitimation. This study of the
history of police torture in the US South aids in answering a key question: what conditions
and structures have made it possible for torture to continue to be a wide-spread practice up
to the present day?
Contents
Introduction
I. Police Tortoure and »Legal« Lynch Murders in the American South
II. Torture and Afro-American Testimony in Court
III. The NAACP Campaign against »Forced Confessions«
IV. Torture as a Scandal: The Case of Quinter South
V. Federal Investigations of Torture in the American South
Silvan Niedermeier is an assistant professor of North American history at the University of Erfurt whose work
focuses on the history of the imperial and postcolonial periods and of the American South, the history of violence,
and visual history. The intersections of these interests are reflected in his current study , Expanding the Kodak Zone:
Photography and the Imperial Self in the Philippine American War, 1898–1913.
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Jonas Kreienbaum
»A sad fiasco«: Colonial Concentration Camps around 1900
»This is an impressive achievement, which ... sets numerous new accents in an intensely debated field and stands out in this context for its agreeably dispassionate
approach.« – Andreas Eckert, Humboldt University Berlin
Within what has been referred to as the »colonial turn« in historiography and debates
about the connections between massacres perpetrated in Europe’s colonies and Nazi genocidal violence, the origins of concentration camps as sites of planned annihilation has become a centerpiece of heated discussions. This study offers an in depth assessment of archival
sources on the British colony South Africa and German South West Africa to shed new light
on the claim that there was a direct »path from Windhoek to Auschwitz«, as historian Jürgen
Zimmerer and others have contended.
»Ein trauriges Fiasko«. Koloniale
Konzentrationslager um 1900
ca. 110 000 words
ISBN 978-3-86854-290-5
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Kreienbaum systematically reconstructs the contexts of the two military conflicts and the
goals pursued by the two colonial powers in erecting the camps to show that they were above
all part of a military strategy. As in other colonial wars, differences between combatants and
civilians were increasingly blurred, resulting in high numbers of civilian casualties. The dayto-day operation of these mass internment sites by disinterested and incompetent military
leaders was the second decisive factor that resulted in dramatically rising death rates. But
Kreienbaum’s analysis shows clearly that neither intentional extermination of inmates nor
tacit acceptance of death due to forced labor were part of the colonial powers’ plans in establishing the camps. His systematic comparison of the camps in southern Africa with those
created by Nazi Germany reveals that the differences between the two were considerably
more significant than their similarities.
Contents
Introduction
I. The Wars in South Africa and against the Herero and Nama in German South West Africa
II. The Purpose of the Camps
III. The Camp Model Copied? Observation and Knowledge Transfer
IV. Colonial and Nazi Camps: Comparisons Considered
V. »A sad fiasco«: Conclusions
»Kreienbaum’s book, with its focus on comparison and transfer, is an excellent study in the currently much-discussed
field of research on ’camps’. Its precise and dispassionate treatment of larger issues and comparative consideration of
colonial and Nazi camps provide a new empirical foundation for this debate and offer new answers for essential questions, especially thanks to the accessment and evaluation of completely new collections of sources.« — Ulrike von
Hirschhausen, University of Rostock
Jonas Kreienbaum is a historian who joined the staff of the Department of History at the University of Rostock
in 2012. He studied in Berlin and at the University of Nottingham and completed his doctorate at the Humboldt
University Berlin in 2013.
Claudia Weber
Perpetrators at War: The Entangled History of the Katyn Executions
· Third place on Germany’s most prestigious Best Non-Fiction Books List, April 2015
»Weber’s book is an example of the kind of historiography that not only explains but also
knows how to tell a story. A brillant text with many new insights into the history of a
massacre, how it was instrumentalized, and how it was dealt with.« — Jörg Baberowski,
Humboldt University Berlin
Krieg der Täter. Die Massenerschießung von Katyń
ca. 124 000 words
ISBN 978-3-86854-286-8
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Katyń, where more than twenty thousand Polish officers and intellectuals were shot in spring
1940, is a synonym for Stalinist violence perpetrated during World War II. Much has been
written about Katyń and the history of cover-up attempts and propaganda battles from the
war to the present day. But both academic and other texts have invariably centered on the
issue of responsibility for the executions—framed simply as an »either-or question«.
This book argues that the history of Katyń is more complex and entangled and cannot
be understood without considering its historical context: the German-Soviet Nonaggression
Pact. Indeed, without the specific agreements and practices that emerged between the two
erstwhile ideological enemies who for a time were political allies, this mass crime presumably
might never have occurred. Historian Claudia Weber reconstructs the developments leading
up to the Politburo’s decision to murder the Polish POWs, who leaders of both Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union perceived as a problem they hoped the other side would
solve. When Germany refused to taken over the POWs within the provisions of GermanSoviet agreements on population transfers, their fate was sealed. Later, discovery of the mass
graves in early 1943, presented to the world by Nazi propaganda minister Goebbel as proof
of Stalinist brutality, was in fact no surprise to most key actors. Churchill, the Polish government in exile, and Nazi leaders were already informed about the deaths, the perpetrators, and
the grave sites. And reciprocal attempts by the Soviets and Nazis to make the other side accountable persisted at the Nuremberg Trials, but were thwarted by the US persecutors.
The Cold War offered an ideal atmosphere for sustaining and fueling the conflict of the
perpetrators in East and West. But while Katyń became a symbol of Eastern European resistance against the Soviet state socialism, in the West the crime and its role in propaganda
increasingly roused only marginal right-wing groups. Not until Gorbachev abolished the
Soviet political taboo by admitting responsibility for the mass shootings was it possible to
recognize and examine the complexity of this crime and its place in European memory.
Claudia Weber is a historian and research fellow at Hamburg Institute for Social Research since 2007. She completed her doctoral degree on the culture of memory in Bulgaria at the University of Leipzig and was a lecturer in
Leipzig and at the University of Basel. Her research interests include the history of violence in eastern Europe, the
social history of the Cold War, and nationalism and cultures of memory in the past two centuries.
Klaas Voß
Washington’s Mercenaries: Covert US Interventions during the
Cold War and Their Consequences
»A book that unsparingly reveals Washington’s politics but in no way lends itself to fuel
simplistic anti-Americanism—and a book that in many sections is as fascinating to read as a
novel.« — Winfried Heinemann, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Private military companies (PMCs) and their major role in international military missions,
with »contractors« at times outnumbering regular military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan, have made mercenaries a hot issue internationally. But PMCs did not appear in the
1990s: they are the logical consequence of a development that began in the Cold War. The
bloc confrontation and superpower proxy wars in Asia, Africa, and Latin America were an
ideal breeding ground for twentieth-century mercenary culture.
Washingtons Söldner: Verdeckte
US-Interventionen im Kalten
Krieg und ihre Folgen
ca. 170 000 words
ISBN 978-3-86854-274-5
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Voß focuses on three key conflicts to dissect why and how the United States began pursuing political interests outside North America with volunteers motivated by money or
ideology, with far-reaching consequences for international and domestic politics. Analysis
of covert US interventions against the Simba rebellion in the Congo in the 1960s, in the early
phase of the conflicts in Angola and Rhodesia (1970s), and in the Nicaraguan Contra War
of the 1980s reveals why the American strategy of paying others to fight dirty wars (and supplying the necessary hardware) at first bore fruit, as did the informational strategy of plausible deniability. The latter diverted at least some legal complications, domestic critique, and
international attacks from the respective president and his administration.
As an international culture of mercenaries began to emerge in the 1970s, the masterminds
of US strategy were forced to recognize that military entrepreneurs and adventurers with
their own agendas were no easier to control than the leaders of the regimes that ostensibly
sought protection from Communist-supported rebels. This is essential reading for those who
seek to understand the pre-history of today’s out-of-area missions and the continuity of key
military and informational strategies.
»… a study that is rich in material and in insights. And meanwhile, the history of state-financed US mercenaries continues to this day, despite recurrent scandals.« — Joseph Croitoru, Süddeutsche Zeitung
Klaas Voß received his doctoral degree in history from the University of Hamburg and is a research fellow at the
Hamburg Institute for Social Research. He is currently studying the reintegration of rebel groups and militias following the end of Cold War conflicts.
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Alexander Korb
In the Shadow of World War: The Ustašaʼs Mass Violence against
Serbs, Jews, and Roma in Croatia, 1941– 1945
· Geisteswissenschaften International Prize – complete English translation funding
· Fraenkel Prize 2012, Wiener Library, London; Irma Rosenberg Prize, Vienna;
Andrej Mitrovic Prize, Bonn; and the Herbert Steiner Prize 2012, Vienna
Croatia, in World War II nominally an independent state but in fact divided into German
and Italian occupation zones, was one of the most multiethnic regions in Hitler’s Europe.
Ending this diversity was the goal of the Croatian Ustaša, founded in 1929 as a militant,
völkisch-nationalistic organization by Ante Pavelič. The civil war initiated by the Ustaša
militias aimed to transform Croatia into an ethnically homogenous national state.
Im Schatten des Weltkriegs:
Massengewalt der Ustaša gegen
Serben, Juden und Roma in
Kroatien 1941– 1945
ca. 156 000 words
ISBN 978-3-86854-259-2
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To date the Ustaša have generally been perceived either as Hitler’s henchmen or irrational, murderous nationalists responsible for the deaths of half a million people. Korb’s comprehensive and nuanced analysis challenges both interpretations to explore the ambiguities
and dynamics of mass violence in Croatia. An introduction on the Ustaša, its ideology, plans
and relations with the Germans and Italians is followed by in-depth analysis of expulsion and
population transfers to implement »ethnic homogenization«, massacres perpetrated during
the ensuing chaos and civil war, and mass death in the Ustaša’s internment camps.
Korb shows how the Ustaša made use of opportunities created by civil war and the occupation to promote their own independent agenda. Violence against Serbs, Jews, and
Roma, he argues, were closely linked and persecution of the Jews related to the radicalization
of anti-Serbian policies. Moreover, factors such as the micro-regional context, warlordism,
geography, crop harvests, and local infrastructure also determined the trajectory of violence.
Soon, the Ustaša were themselves increasingly driven by the dynamics of the violence
they unleashed. Mass murder of Serbs, Jews, and Roma was as much a result of the Ustaša’s
loss of control in a disintegrating state as a manifestation of ethnic purity policies. Its impacts
continue to be felt in the Balkans today.
»Alexander Korb has presented an important book—important because there has been a lack of fundamental research
on Ustaša rule in Croatia; important because he can explain occurrences more precisely and better than other work to
date; and, finally, important because he capably brings together comprehensive knowledge of the sources and a theoretically-oriented approach.« — Armin Heinen, H-Soz-u-Kult
»The great strength of ’Im Schatten des Weltkriegs’ lies in its critical scrutiny of sources, its mistrust of mainstream, politically-skewed interpretations of the Ustasa’s regime of violence. … On the historically and politically contested terrain
of the Balkans, Korb has probably made enemies on all sides with his clear-sighted and unsparing analysis. He can
consider that to be a compliment.« — Danijel Majic, Berliner Zeitung
Alexander Korb is a historian and lecturer in modern European history at the University of Leicester and acting
director of the university’s Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Fatima Kastner
Transitional Justice: From Normative Exceptions to
the Norm in World Society
»Kastner advances our notions about transitional justice in decisive respects. With her
sophisticated theoretical arguments and empirical results presented in vivid, concrete
language, she sets new standards for the dynamic encounter of thinking from the social
sciences and legal theory. — Gunther Teubner, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Transitional Justice. Von der
normativen Ausnahme zur
weltgesellschaftlcihen Regel
ca. 90 000 words
ISBN 978-3-86854-288-2
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This volume combines a unique approach to the issue of how societies address a history of
massive human rights abuses with groundbreaking empirical evidence from an Islamic country. Legal sociologist Fatima Kastner examines the perspectives and potentials of two key
macrosociological theories—the new institutionalism or world polity theory developed by
John W. Meyer and Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory—in assessing transitional justice’s
goals, functions, and instruments. And she enriches this evaluation by presenting the singular case of the Kingdom of Morocco. King Mohammed VI’s decision to install a truth commission in 2004 was unparalleled in the Arab world: The mass violence and human rights
violations investigated were perpetrated under the rule of his own father, Hassan II.
Within this macrosociological framework and analysis of the Moroccan process, key
questions on post-conflict justice are addressed. Why is there a global shift from forgetting
and denying mass violence and injustice to collectively confronting such occurrences? As
reconciliation replaces the prosecution and punishment of perpetrators, is the work of international courts complemented or undermined? Most importantly: what is the specific function of transitional justice and how well does it serve its purpose, notably in Arabic and Islamic societies? Kastner also relates her theoretical and empirical results to experiences with
post-conflict institutions in Chile, Argentina, and South Africa. Her findings show, that
transitional justice and the processes its sets in motion may have less to do with truth and
reconciliation and more with the need to restore or recreate a collective identity.
Contents:
Introduction: – From Exception to Rule: The Global Dissemination of Transitional Justice
I. Transitional Justice in the Kingdom of Morocco
II. Global Human Rights Culture: Universalized Experiences of Injustice in World Society
III. Lex Transitus: Diffusing Norms, Standards, and Institutions and the Politics of the Past
IV. Lethology: The Function of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
V. Morocco: Socializing States in the Context of Universal Human Rights
Fatima Kastner is a legal sociologist who completed her doctorate at Goethe University Frankfurt after studying
there and at the London School of Economics and Collège International de Philosophie, Paris. A research fellow at
Hamburg Institute for Social Research from 2004 to 2013, she also lectures at the University of Hamburg and was
a visiting professor at the Dubai School of Government in 2013 / 14. She was awarded the Adam Podgòrecki Prize by
the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Sociology of Law in 2012.
Ulrike Jureit / Nikola Tietze (eds.)
Post-sovereign Territoriality: The European Union and Its Space
·An interdisciplinary exploration of how ideas and practices of territoriality are being transformed in an increasingly post-sovereign Europe
Postsouveräne Territorialität:
Die Europäische Union und
ihr Raum
ca. 81 000 words
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Sovereignty has become a much-discussed topic in recent years, notably in the context of
theoretical work on the ongoing transformation of statehood. But the relationship between
post-sovereign statehood and territorial order have attracted much less attention. This is
especially surprising in Europe, where space is a key element in European Union politics on
enlargement and the integration of member states or in relations between citizens and EU
institutions. Post-sovereign Territoriality explores this nexus theoretically and empirically by
focusing on the changes emerging in the ongoing process of Europeanization, in which not
only new individual rights have been established and conditions for access to markets or
welfare-state benefits redefined, but also regional, national, and supranational modes of
belonging are being reconfigured.
Twelve scholars from cultural studies, geography, historiography, political science, and
sociology dissect the concepts, semantics, normative frameworks, and day-to-day practices
that are shaping how »pooled and shared sovereignty« (A. Lewicki) relates to ideas of territory. In contrast to the claim that post-sovereign political orders are inevitably post-territorial, these authors highlight the need for critical reflection, in politics and research, on how
spatial principles underlying political orders have been transformed—and how this process
might be influenced in future. As classic territorial markers of difference are superseded by
»invisible frontiers« rooted in institutional procedures rather than spatial parameters, these
texts underline why policy-makers and citizens need to consider the impacts on border regimes, social policies, and other areas of vital importance to European citizens.
Contents
Postsovereign Territoriality: An Introduction
Part I. European Space: Visions – Terms – Concepts of Order
Part II. Growing Spaces and Regulated Neighborly Relations:
The European Union and Its Rationales of Enlargement
Part III. Inside and Out: Border Constellations in an Enlarged Europe
Part IV. A European Superstate? Elements of a Spatial Transformation
Ulrike Jureit is a historian and fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research whose most recent book
examined the developement of the concept of Lebensraum in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Nikola Tietze is a sociologist and fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. Her earlier books addressed
modes of belonging and forms of Muslim religiosity in European immigration societies.
Philipp Staab
Power and Domination in the World of Service
»Staab unravels the mystery of why, in our society that facilitates and empowers,
we are experiencing the return of forms of domination that are direct, unavoidable, and
unacceptable. This is what’s happening in the worlds of low-level service work.«
— Heinz Bude, Hamburg Institute for Social Research / University of Kassel
Service work is tied to the promise of prosperity, upward mobility, and participation in society. To this day, it is considered to be relatively non-hierarchical, purportedly offering
enhanced autonomy for employees.
Macht und Herrschaft in
der Servicewelt
398 pages, 145 x 210 mm
ISBN 978-3-86854-281-3
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For low-level service jobs—work in retail sales, care-giving, postal and parcel services,
cleaning, and similar areas—realities at the workplace tell quite a different story. Low wages,
competitive pressures, meager or nonexistent opportunities for advancement, and isolation
are the hallmarks of work in these sectors. Employees’ hopes that they would enjoy greater
autonomy and space for development as service workers have dissolved. Pressure to rationalize, hierarchical structures, and domination increasingly determine day-to-day work routines.
Philipp Staab evaluates extensive first-hand observation and interviews with employees
in low-level service jobs and demonstrates that the issue of proletarization has by no means
disappeared in modern societies with the decline of industrial labor. A new kind of postindustrial »proletarity« has emerged, which shapes both how people work and how they live.
The decisive site at which inequality is produced and cemented is located precisely where it
should no longer be, according to the hopes that are still widespread in society: on the margins of service society.
»People who deliver parcels, clean buildings, or work at discount stores or in geriatric care can only earn their income
through physical exploitation. Based on excellent empirical analyses, Philipp Staab demonstrates how in these sectors
domination is the result of, rather than the prequisite for, everyday practices of coping and surviving.« — Heinz Bude,
Hamburg Institute for Social Research / University of Kassel
Philipp Staab is a sociologist who studied in Kassel and Paris and received his doctorate from the University of
Kassel. He has been a member of the research staff of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research since 2007.
Friederike Bahl
Life Models in Service Society
»Bahl offers a strong empirical study in the sociology of work. Her book illuminates impressively and intelligently the backstage areas of modern work societies. Outside the realm
of knowledge workers, high performers, and the new creative classes—that’s where the
ground staff is in action that keeps our society functioning in the realms of production and
reproduction. This book is enlightening in the best sense!« — Berthold Vogel, University of
Göttingen
Lebensmodelle in der Dienst
leistungsgesellschaft
371 pages, 145 x 210
ISBN 978-3-86854-282-0
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In its early phase, service society was linked to a utopian vision. Service work would herald
paid employment’s transition from proletarian labor to the promise of enhanced economic
status, social identity, and political stability. Today, the realities of contemporary »low-level«
service work diverge sharply from these expectations.
Service work that involves caring, cleaning, and selling is characterized by low wages and
the minimal social standards of contemporary welfare states. In these sectors of the labor
market, upward mobility is a dream of bygone days. Service work, by its very nature, hampers the development of an occupational identity. And the social liberals’ belief that economic measures and the benefits offered by the welfare state would generated a societal order
that enhances opportunities for all members of a society is now unconvincing for those who
hold low-level service jobs. How do employees in these sectors perceive their situation? Do
they experience solidarity or pride in their work? Do they have expectations for the future?
Drawing on interviews, observations, and discussions, Friederike Bahl demonstrates that,
low-level service employment has generated modes of working and living that point to a new
form of »proletarity« without a proletariat. Her attention focuses on the people who do lowlevel service work and how they perceive their own status. Bahl’s analysis demonstrates that
where and how people situate themselves in what they conceive of as »the whole« contributes
to shaping society.
»Bahl’s book offers a sobering diagnosis. In societies like ours, we find a service proletariat that entertains no hopes for
the future. People who work as cleaners, in postal services, or in the care sector work hard and play by the rules, but
they don’t believe that they themselves or their children will benefit from it. This new proletariat has a vision of society
as an endless tunnel — with no light to be seen anywhere.« — Heinz Bude, University of Kassel
Friederike Bahl is a sociologist who completed der doctoral degree at the University of Kassel and has been a
researcher with the Hamburg Institute for Social Research since 2007..
Kim C. Priemel / Alexa Stiller (eds.)
NMT: The Nuremberg Military Tribunals – History, Justice, and the
Establishment of Legal Norms
The first comprehensive academic volume on all of the twelve military tribunals conducted by
the US occupation authorities from 1946 to 1949 in Nuremberg against the military, political,
and economic policymakers and accomplices of Nazi Germany
NMT: Die Nürnberger Militär
tribunale zwischen Geschichte,
Gerechtigkeit und Rechts
schöpfung
800 pages, 145 x 210 mm
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The US Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT), frequently referred to as the Subsequent
Nuremberg Trials, carried forward the task that was begun with the much more well-known
International Military Tribunal: systematically bringing to trial the mid-level leaders from
the military, government, private enterprise, and other segments of German society, who
planned, implemented, or supported in significant ways the Nazis' exterminatory policies
and other crimes against humanity. This collection presents for the first time analysis of all
of the twelve cases tried between 1946 and 1949, with a broad range of work by recognized
international scholars from history, legal studies, and political science.
Although the role of the NMT in shaping historical knowledge about the Third Reich
and in defining legal standards with respect to war crimes and crimes against humanity was
no less significant than that of the preceeding international trials, in which all four Allies
participated, there is little published research on these proceedings and no publication that
is as widely-ranging as this collection. The articles are enhanced by various appendices that
will be a valuable resource for researchers, students, legal professionals, and all those interested in the history of Nazi Germany and international law.
With contributions by:
Ralf Ahrens, Françoise Berger, Donald Bloxham, Lutz Budraß, Jonathan A. Bush, Florian
Dierl, Lawrence Douglas, Axel Drecoll, Hilary Earl, Valerie Héber, Isabel Heinemann, Laura
Jockusch, Hervé Joly, Heike Krösche, Stephan H. Lindner, Ralf Oberndörfer, Dirk
Pöppmann, Kim Christian Priemel, Jan Erik Schulte, Daniel Marc Segesser, Alexa Stiller,
Markus Urban, Paul Weindling, S. Jonathan Wiesen, Christiane Wilke
»... the most substantial .... survey of the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials; their historical significance remains to be
discovered in this country, just as their ongoing relevance is manifested almost daily by the Internationa Criminial Count
in The Hague.« —Norbert Frei, Süddeutsche Zeitung
Alexa Stiller is a historian and lecturer in the Department of Modern and Contemporary History, University of Bern,
Switzerland. Her research interests are the history of Nazi Germany, the history of forced migration in the twentieth
century, violence and genocide, and the history of war crime trials.
Kim Christian Priemel is a lecturer in the Department of History, Humboldt University Berlin, and was previously
a visiting fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the history of Nazi Germany,
social and economic history of contemporary Europe, and the history of ideas.
William Schabas
No Peace without Justice? The Role of International Criminal Justice
»While reading the impression arises that one is watching the godess of law Justicia holding
her scales and can see how heavily the arguments weigh, tipping first to this side and then to
that. … A book that is recommended for all jurists, historians, and NGO activists who are
concerned with large-scale international crimes.« —Conrad Lay, Andruck, Deutschlandfunk
Kein Frieden ohne Gerechtigkeit?
Die Rolle der internationaler
Strafjustiz
104 pages, 145 x 210 mm
ISBN 978-3-86854-259-2
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One of the defining moments in the progress of humanity was, writes William Schabas, the
installment of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. The tribunal established
influential principles in international law: a war of aggression is an international crime; leaders who wage them are personally responsible, as are individuals who cite obedience in following their orders, rather than adhering to humanitarian norms; atrocities perpetrated by
governments against their people are international crimes.
Since the 1990s, international justice has been extended with the ad hoc tribunals for the
former Yugoslavia and Rwanda and permanently institutionalized with the creation of the
International Criminal Court. But the practice of international criminal justice continues
to spark critique and face inherent dilemmas. Schabas, a historian, legal scholar and recognized authority in international law, reviews the history of conceptualizing international
criminal law and its practice in international tribunals and courts in this highly topical book.
The focus here is on central issues that have accompanied developments in the decades
since Nuremberg. Are international criminal courts called on mainly to promote or restore
peace in post-conflict societies? Or is it their overriding aim to secure justice for the victims
of atrocious crimes against humanity? How does the international community define justice
in the highly-charged contexts of mass crimes, crimes perpetrated by states, and human
rights violations? How does the prosecution of international criminals differ from judicial
action against violators in a national context? What is, or must be, the role of politics in international justice? What about charges of »victor’s justice«?
In this small and accessible volume, the author shows why the answers to the problems
of international justice cannot be resolved by attempting to separate it from international
politics: the ongoing project of international justice is an imminently political undertaking.
Justice, William Schabas argues, is not an end in itself. What it can and should be is an essential element in pursuing last peace and a mutal understanding of what has threatened
peace in the past.
William Schabas is a professor of international law at Middlesex University in London and chairman of the Irish
Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland Galway. He is also associated with a number of other
universities worldwide. Besides serving on the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission he has been an
expert advisor to the United Nations on capital punishment . Schabas has published widely on human rights law,
international criminal law, and the International Criminal Court.
Andreas Stucki
Insurgency and Forced Relocation:
The Cuban Wars of Independence, 1868 – 1898
Volume 3, Studies in the History of Violence in the Twentieth Century
»Andreas Stucki has succeeded in producing an excellent example of concrete, empiricallyoriented, discerning historiography that is comparative and globally historical at the same
time.«—Michael Zeuske, University of Cologne
Recently, historians have increasingly marked forced relocation of civilians in the SpanishCuban War (1895–1898), together with British camps in the South African War of 1899–1902,
as the »invention« of the concentration camp. But as Andreas Stucki shows in this unique
study of Spain’s reconcentración, closer scrutiny of colonial internment reveals phenomena
that all too sweeping links between Cuba, Windhuk, and Auschwitz obscure.
Aufstand und Zwangs
umsiedlung: Die kubanischen
Unabhängigkeitskriege 1868–
1898
413 pages, 145 x 210 mm
ISBN 978-3-86854-252-3
Paperback, October 2012
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To cut off the Cuban anti-colonial guerrilla from civilian contacts, supplies, and information, Spanish military began forcibly moving rural civilians to fortified towns and villages in
1896. Recent research estimates that some 170 000 people—one-tenth of the civilian population—perished of malnutrition or disease due to inadequate food, hygiene, and shelter in
less than two years.
Examining the context, practices, and impacts of reconcentración, Swiss historian Stucki
argues that it is characteristic of modern wars of empire. A wide range of documents, some
never before assessed for this purpose—records from governmental and military archives;
diaries, memoirs, and personal accounts from Spain and Cuba, collections from Cuban
provincial archives—show how the camps further blurred distinctions between combatants
and non-combatants and, with the »scorched earth« policy and administrative neglect, led
to high mortality.
Cuban civilian internment, the author asserts, differed fundamentally from camps established in Germany or Eastern Europe as part of a wider system of repression and terror.
Despite the horrific effects of reconcentración, its functional aim was not extermination, nor
»punishment« of the enemy as in German South West Africa, but defeat of the guerilla.
Stucki’s book is a valuable contribution to our understanding of forced civilian concentration in the twentieth century—in camps, »strategic hamlets«, or »new villages« from Cuba
to Malaya to Vietnam—and also illuminates how structural factors and situational decisions
shape asymmetric warfare.
»Considering the great social and economic importance of the [Spanish] internment camps [in Cuba], it is very astonishing that no scholar has to date studied the ›Reconcentración‹ in detail ... a highly readable and enlightening study,
which brings clarity to a inexplicably neglected aspect of Cuban history.« « —Elisa Heuser, DAMALS
Andreas Stucki is a historian and assistant professor at the Historical Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland
who will join the research staff of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research in fall 2012.
Bettina Greiner / Alan Kramer (eds.)
The World of the Camps: The »Success Story« of an Institution
»...an excellent collection. The chapters are all of very high quality...« — Henry Bernhard,
Deutschlandfunk
Is it cynical, in view of the violence perpetrated and the suffering experienced worldwide, to
examine how and why camps have become a success, not just in history but also as a global
contemporary reality? To this day, camps are an instrument employed by dictators as well as
democracies. How can we explain the persistence and adaptability of this institution? Why
are they functionally attractive, beyond the bounds of time, continents, and political systems?
Welt der Lager: Zur »Erfolgs
geschichte« einer Institution
359 pages, 140 x 215 mm
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Bettina Greiner and Alan Kramer have asked recognized specialists from research on
forms of mass internment in camps and on violence to re-examine this phenomenon and
focus especially on the processes of radicalization that have rendered the camp a global icon
of the repressive potential of modern states.
From the early modern period to modern-day Guantánamo, from POW camps in Europe during World War I to internment camps in the Pacific during World War II, from wars
of colonization to wars of decolonialization, from totalitarian ideals of creating communities
to the planned extermination of so-called »unworthy life« based on racist motives—the
contributors in this volume together reconstruct a unique profile of the history of camps.
The texts presented here are an important stimulus for future multifaceted, transnational
research on historical as well as contemporary camps as an international phenomenon.
With contributions by:
Utsumi Aiko, Sara Berger, Marc Buggeln/Michael Wildt, Moritz Feichtinger, Andreas Gestruch, Bernd Greiner, Bettina Greiner, Heather Jones, Alan Kramer, Javier Rodrigo, Felix
Schnell, Claudia Siebrecht, Andreas Stucki
Bettina Greiner is a historian and the academic coordinator of the Berlin Colloquia on Contemporary History.
Her book Verdrängter Terror: Geschichte und Wahrnehmung sowjetischer Speziallager in Deutschland was published in German by Hamburger Edition and will appear in English in Lexington Books' Harvard Cold War Series.
Alan Kramer is a professor of European history at Trinity College Dublin. He is the co-author, with John Horne,
of German Atrocities, 1914: A History of Denial, which was published in German translation by Hamburger Edition
in 2004.
Nikola Tietze
Imagined Community: Ways of Belonging and Criticism in European
Immigration Society
»Tietze’s book offers sociologists new insights into the complex constructions and imaginations of belonging found among immigrants in Germany and France … Tietze demonstrates
her impressive capacity to generate rich empirical material and to analyse these findings
astutely by applying and developing theoretical concepts. … she successfully embeds individual narratives into (trans-)national contexts, thus linking different levels of analysis.«
— Schirin Amir-Moazami, Free University Berlin
Imaginerte Gemeinschaft:
Zugehörigkeiten und Kritik
in der europäischen
Einwanderungsgesellschaft
494 pages, 140 x 215 mm
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Belonging can be constructed in diverse ways, for example, by drawing on religion, language,
or notions of territory. For immigrants in European democracies, moreover, these constructions of belonging are a means of expressing criticism of society and social and political injustice. In this sense, they are part of disputes over what constitutes a good or just form of
social relations and governance.
This book evaluates and presents empirical results from individual and group interviews
in France and Germany that address constructions of belonging. Interviewees who perceive
themselves as Muslims, Palestinians, or Kabyles within the respective European society articulate notions of community and, in doing so, refer to European categories of religion,
territory, or language, as well as to relevant state practices in the two countries.
Analysis of these individual constructions of belonging is complemented and contrasted
with documents from the Council of Europe and the European Union. Assessment focuses
here on the categories of territory, religion, and language implicitly incorporated into these
documents, in order to ascertain what contradictions and interactions result for the concepts
that underlie governmental policies, institutional structures, and political developments in
Germany and France.
Tietze’s analysis reveals how immigrants and their descendents question normative principles and institutional standards and thus have the potential to participate in or indeed
initiate societal change. But, she asks, what are their chances of having their critique heard
and recognized in conflicts over the definition of just and good social relations?
» A stimulating study that offers path-breaking ideas for research on post-colonial immigration and the transformation
of European immigration societies. Ms. Tietze has formulated important suggestions for a young theoretical debate and
extended its to date quite narrow empirical basis with her careful and precise work.« — Theresa Wobbe, University of
Potsdam
Nikola Tietze is a sociologist and research fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research whose work centers
on sociological aspects of religion, of public institutions, and of European unification. Her previous book, comparing forms of Muslim religiosity among young men in Germany and France, won the Norbert Elias Prize for a best
first book by a social scientist.
Jens Kersten, Claudia Neu, Berthold Vogel
Demography and Democracy: The Politicization of the
Welfare State
Is demographic transition endangering the foundations of modern democracies? A unique
fusion of perspectives—constitutional law, the sociology of space and infrastructure, and social
policy analysis—offers stimulating answers
Demografie und Demokratie:
Zur Politisierung des Wohlfahrtstaates
152 pages, 110 x 175
ISBN 978-3-86854-253-0
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Despite widespread debates in recent years on demographic transition in Europe and in
Western societies more generally, the issue of how population shrinkage and aging societies
will affect practical politics in contemporary democracies has hardly been adequately addressed. Meanwhile, the proportion of the population that needs care continues to rise in
relation to those who work and provide care; increasingly large rural areas face age-specific
migration to a small number of growing urban centers. In the face of such developments,
there can be little doubt that changes in democratic process as well as in the status and functioning of the welfare state will be forthcoming.
In this topical essay, three scholars from the fields of public law, social structure analysis,
and social policy examine the tensions between demography and democracy from three
perspectives: the constitutional framework of contemporary welfare-state democracies, the
status of these societies’ infrastructure and its effects on social space, and the architecture of
the welfare state and policies of distribution.Their assessments highlight potential impacts
of demographic transition on equality, individual and collective responsibility, and other
principles on which contemporary social systems are based. Moreover, the authors outline
perspectives for safeguarding these democratic and social foundations of our societies.
»Three professors … describe vividly the problems of the welfare state with diminishing births, ageing populations, and
migration…The authors call for constitutional safeguards for justice between the generations ... – Highly recommended.« —Elke Günther, ekz-bibliotheksservice
Jens Kersten is a professor of public law at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich; his research has ranged from
Georg Jellinek’s theory of the state to legal issues of human cloning.
Claudia Neu is a professor of sociology at the University of Applied Sciences Niederrhein; her research interests
include rural sociology, the sociology of households, and social structure analysis.
Berthold Vogel is a sociologist at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and director of the Sociological
Research Institute, University of Göttingen who focuses on the political sociology of inequality, the world of
employment, and the welfare state and its public goods and services.
Catherine Colliot-Thélène
Democracy without the People
»Catherine Colliot-Thélène outlines in a most stimulating manner how a democracy ›without
the people‹ can nonetheless remain a democracy.« —Claire-Lise Buis, Die Welt
Demokratie ohne Volk
251 pages, 140 x 215 mm
ISBN 978-3-86854-232-5
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de France)
Globalization processes in the legal and political sphere have led to an inexorable erosion of
the nation-state. What is the future of democracy in a globalized world? Today, globalization
is frequently made responsible for the crisis of democracy, as a political system that is based
on the nation-state. But these structural changes challenge society to rethink the democratic
reality of political systems that emerged in the wake of the revolutions at the end of the
eighteenth century and continue to shape our concept of democracy. The identity of the
political subject is being transformed and must be redefined. The need to deconstruct and
reconceptualize notions of democracy based on a concept of political community also results
from the changing role of the nation-state in the space framed by heterogeneous power
centers.
Contents
Introduction
1. Subjective rights
2. Democracy, from Rousseau to Hegel
3. The democratization of democracy
4. Democracy without demos
5. The future of the subject in the context of globalization
Conclusion
»The key that Colliot-Thélène presents lies in subjective individual rights: they can serve as a foundation for demo-cracy
beyond the limits of the nation-state. Drawing on great thinkers like Kant, Rousseau, and Arendt, the author offers an
ambitious attempt at rethinking a good political order, despite all talk of ›post-democracy ‹.« —Eva Marlene Hausteiner,
Philosophie Magazin
Catherine Colliot-Thélène is a professor of philosophy at the University of Rennes I and was a guest fellow at the
Hamburg Institute for Social Research in 2008. She was the director of the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin from 1999 to
2004 and is a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Political Theory.
Translated from French by Ilse Utz
Gerhard Wolf
Ideology and the Rationality of Domination:
Nazi Germanization Policies in West Poland
»By pursuing Nazi policies into the local settings of their messy and uneven implementation,
Gerhard Wolf brings much-needed clarity to the vexed question of ideo-logy and its place in
the system of Nazi rule.« —Geoff Eley, University of Michigan
Ideologie und Herrschafts
rationalität: National
sozialistische Germani
sierungspolitik in Westpolen
528 pages, 145 x 210 mm
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Carolina Press)
Gerhard Wolf has taken an in-depth look at how the various institutions involved in the Nazi
occupation regime in Poland—the SS, the civil administrations and the Reich Ministry of
the Interior—operated in actual practice, leading to conflict and dissent between the actors
involved. While the SS insisted on allowing only a chosen few to be »Germanized« and based
their selection primarily on »racial« criteria, local administrators aimed to pacify and integrate a large part of the Polish majority and thus applied broader cultural or political definitions of who was to be »German«. With the attack on the Soviet Union, economic interests
and the need to supply laborers to replace the German men being drafted became of paramount importance. Rather than being deported to the East as planned, Poles were sent to
work in factories and on farms in the »Altreich«.
As Wolf demonstrates, racist ideology and the demands of establishing a viable system of
domination and of the war economy clashed. The SS with its adherence to strict racial criteria in the occupied territories was often forced to policies shaped by other Nazi authorities,
who chose instead to adopt more flexible strategies. Although the goals of persecuting and
annihilating the Jewish population and extending German domination to all of Europe were
not questioned, how these goals were to be reached was determined in complex ways.
»Gerhard Wolf’s excellent book shows that National Socialist ethnopolitics owed much more than its most vocal proponents were prepared to admit to pre-1933 nationalist conceptions of belonging and exclusion. Focusing on the expulsion and assimilation policies of the German state towards non-Jewish peoples in the annexed territories of western
Poland, the places where population engineering was most extensive in the German sphere of power, it shows most
convincingly that the master concept ›Volk‹ has more heuristic power than that of ›race‹. Wolf’s study breaks down a
false dichotomy of ›ideology‹ and ›pragmatism‹ as determinants of policy. He shows instead how issues that were at
one and the same time ›practical‹ and ›principled‹…were interpreted and reinterpreted in light of circumstances on the
ground, of different manifestations of what was never a monolithic ideology, and of the ethnopolitical truism that
›inclusion‹ was always the obverse side of ›exclusion‹.« —Donald Bloxham, University of Edinburgh
Gerhard Wolf is a reader in German history at the Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex. His
research in the history of Nazi Germany focuses on occupation policies in eastern Europe, population policies, and
the causes of racism and anti-Semitism.
Felix Schnell
Space for Terror: Violence and Group Militancy in the Ukraine,
1905 – 1933
»Schnell situates his study within the argumentative horizon of Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands
… But in contrast to Snyder … Schnell presents a well-founded and precise analysis. ... a
successful example of how today’s perspectives on history and the historiography that goes
with it engage with the issue of options for political action today…a substantial work of
scholarship and an intellectual adventure«—Christoph Villinger, Die Tageszeitung
Räume des Schreckens:
Gewalt und Gruppenmilitanz in
der Ukraine 1905–1933
575 pages, 145 x 210 mm
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What happens when the state is unable to enforce its monopoly on the legitimate use of
physical force? How do people react when simply taking what one wants becomes a viable
option—if not for all, at least for all those with the means to impose their will upon others?
These questions are raised by the situation that reigned in much of the Ukraine for a greater
part of the period between 1905, the year of the first Russian Revolution, and 1933, when
Soviet rule was consolidated and collectivization was finally implemented in rural areas.
Historian Felix Schnell takes up and adapts the sociological perspectives on violence
discussed by Wolfgang Sofsky and others in the 1990s to investigate the collective violence
that unfolded in this region on the periphery of the Russian and Soviet empires. The study
focuses on three key periods: the time around the revolution of 1905 as a »laboratory for violence«, the civil war era from 1917 to 1923, and the collectivization period from 1927 to the
early 1930s. His thick descriptions and analysis of pogroms, pillaging, and banditry and the
actors involved in various parts of the Ukraine reveals that it was not ideology but rather the
opportunities for action in a state of emergency that determined the course of events.
Violence, Schnell argues, is more than an instrument which forces others to relinquish
their property. Its other functions are at times no less important: as a medium of communication that relays messages about power to others and as a means of establishing and stabilizing bonds and a sense of community within the group that perpetrates violence.
»With this book, Felix Schnell has presented a study that, with its theoretically-grounded approach and the sources it
draws on, will set standards for all those who work on violence and the history of violence in eastern Europe. ....
Schnell's well-written and convincing study is a fundamental, innovative contribution to key aspects of eastern European history in the twentieth century.« — Rudolf A. Mark, H-Soz-u-Kult
Felix Schnell is a scholar of eastern European history and lecturer at Humboldt University, Berlin. His work
addresses domination, power, and violence in Russia and the Ukraine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Sara Berger
Experts of Extermination: The T4-Reinhardt Network in the Belzec,
Sobibor, and Treblinka Camps
• 2015 Sybil Halpern Milton Book Prize for the best book in Holocaust Studies (2013/2014),
awarded by the German Studies Association
• Recipient of the 2012 Wilhelm Hollenberg Prize, Ruhr University Bochum
Experten der Vernichtung: Das
T4-Reinhardt-Netzwerk in den
Lagern Belzec, Sobibor und Treblinka
622 pages, 145 x 210 mm
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In the course of the so-called »Aktion Reinhardt« carried out between late 1941 and the end
of 1943 in three extermination camps—Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka—far more victims of
Nazi exterminatory policies were murdered than at the infamous camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The significance of »Aktion Reinhardt« has long been overlooked. Some 120 Germans and
Austrians were the main perpetrators of these crimes. Nearly all of them had previous experience with mass murder—experience gained in the Nazi »euthanasia« program, now generally referred to as »Action T4«, because the Berlin office that coordinated these murders was
located at Tiergartenstraße 4 in Berlin.
As planners and functionaries, these men used their knowledge to design camps and gas
chambers, to coordinate guard details or themselves serve as guards. Many of them were not
satisfied with merely following orders to perpetrate murder. They also abused and killed
people completely arbitrarily. With their subsequent participation in the systematic murder
of Europe’s Jews as part of the so-called »Aktion Reinhardt«, the T4 men irrevocably became
experts of extermination.
Sara Berger has written an impressive portrayal of the close network of relationships among
these men. She has analyzed key aspects, including the men’s readiness to obey and the individual options for actions as well as the significance of group pressure, the structural framework, and situative dynamics, as they shaped the intentions and responsibility of this collective in perpetrating genocide. Her book offers highly disturbing insights into the motives
and the »efficiency« of individual perpetrators and the entire group.
»Dr. Berger’s wide-ranging study offers a novel interpretation of the organization of power in the Nazi extermination
camps. Her book is a worthy successor to Henry Friedlander’s groundbreaking research where it highlights the complex
imbrication of the murder of the disabled with the Shoah. […] Nearly every page is painfully evocative; where other
books provide only few details she has compiled hundreds, all of which are presented with luminous eloquence and
restraint.« — laudation, GSA Prize Committee, Sybil Halpern Milton Book Prize
Sara Berger studied history and Italian literature at the Ruhr University Bochum and the Università degli Studi di
Genova. She is now a researcher with the Fondazione Museo della Shoah in Rome.
Ulrike Jureit
Ordering Space: Territory and Lebensraum in the Nineteenth and
Twentieth Centuries
»Nazi extermination policies can only be understood, as Jureit convincingly argues, in the
light of the many fractures revealed only by a more precise analysis of spatial order theories in
the era between the Kaiserreich and the Nazis' rise to power. … an impressive piece of work
and an important contribution to recent discussion on space in historical scholarship and the
historiography of National Socialism.« — Iris Schröder, Humboldt University Berlin
Das Ordnen von Räumen:
Territorium und Lebensraum im
19. und 20. Jahrhundert
445 pages, 145 x 210 mm
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Lebensraum today symbolizes, more than any other word, Nazi policies of expansion and
extermination. Besides labeling the ideological foundations of Nazi Germany’s mass crimes,
however, it now also denotes the continuities of Weltanschauung that linked colonial and
National Socialist policies of conquest. But as Ulrike Jureit asserts, prevalent understandings
of Raum and Lebensraum and how they relate to practical politics have remained one-dimensional, despite the development of sophisticated theoretical approaches to spatial issues in
contemporary historical research.
Ordering Space targets this deficit to deepen and extend our historical understanding of
spatial concepts of order—and the idea of Lebensraum—by examining the semantics, concepts, and practices of ordering space in Germany and scrutinizing how academic theorybuilding and political practices interacted.
Jureit reassesses Friedrich Ratzel’s development of the Lebensraum concept and shows
how political concepts of territoriality meshed with individual and collective perceptions of
»shrinking space« triggered by modernization and industrialization to fuel academic and
popular discourse. Spatial notions based on theories of evolution and migration served to
justify colonial conquests; with Germany’s loss of territory after World War I, they fomented
a collective sense of claustrophobia and existential threat. But Lebensraum was not the only
spatial narrative in the 1920s and, indeed, as close readings of Hitler's texts reveal, he long
favored Boden (soil) over Lebensraum. Ordering Space elucidates how a shift in thinking came
about with horrific consequences: Europe's East was no longer imagined as an empty space,
like Germany’s African colonies. Instead, it was to be emptied according to racial criteria, as
the site of a new racial and spatial order.
»There is no lack of studies on the Nazis’ Lebensraum policies. But … Jureit’s book develops a completely new (and,
moreover, convincing…) perspective. … an impressive empirical and intellectual achievement, especially because many
of its interpretations contradict those that are currently highly influential, challenging them with arguments that are
based in part on unusual empirical evidence. Ultimately, this is the best thing one can say about a historiographical
book.« — Patrick Wagner, Department of History, University of Halle-Wittenberge
Ulrike Jureit is a historian and fellow with the Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and Culture.
Her research and publications address concepts of political collectivity and generations; the culture of memory;
space and the political order, especially in occupation regimes and population policies; and racism and anti-Semitism.
Wolfgang Kraushaar
The Revolt of the Educated: From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Movement
»That Wolfgang Kraushaar has presented a chronicle of the revolt and protest movements
of the past two years is to be lauded…this very informative survey examines such disparate
movements as the Arab Spring and Occupy within the framework of one analysis…
Taken together, this is a kind of social seismograph of the present state of the world.«
—Harald Welzer, Süddeutsche Zeitung
Der Aufruhr der Ausgebildeten:
Vom Arabischen Frühling
zur Occupy-Bewegung
255 pages, 145 x 210 mm
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In 2011, the world was witness to unexpected and increasingly dramatic protests around the
globe. Demonstrators in numerous Arab states carried their demands to the streets until their
rulers had no choice but to abdicate and former potentates were forced to flee the country.
And with the advent of the »Occupy Wall Street« movement in Manhattan, the rebellion has
arrived in the center of international finance.
Protest activities that target banks and the financial system have not only taken place
throughout the USA, they have also spread like brush fires on every continent. Demonstrations have occurred in more than one thousand cities in some eighty countries. Millions have
taken to the streets, demanding effective political action to control the finance markets and
combat the growing divide between rich and poor.
Never before has a protest movement met with so much approval on the part of the general public but also from some politicians. In Germany, its goal of cutting back on banks’
influence is supported by more than eighty percent of the population.
What kind of movements are these? Who are the activists, what are their goals, and what
are their prospects for success? Do they really have a chance of curtailing or even stopping
the destructive momentum of the international finance system?
Wolfgang Kraushaar is a research fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and has been a visiting professor at universities in Berlin, Bejing, and Zürich. Protest movements in the Cold War era and leftist terrorism since
1945 are the main themes of his research and many book publications.
Jan Philipp Reemtsma
More Than a Champion: The Style of Muhammad Ali
»A dazzling portrait. … Written with energy, daring, and artful intelligence.«
— San Francisco Chronicle
Muhammad Ali is undeniably the most famous boxer of all time. A loudmouth who madeheadlines, a convert to Islam, and a conscientious objector who refused to play the roles
expected of him, he could nonetheless be irresistibly charming. His legendary fights against
Liston, Frazier, or Foreman were watched by many who otherwise had no interest in boxing
as a sport. But as Jan Philipp Reemtsma’s sketch of this fascinating personality and his extraordinary style demonstrates, Muhammad Ali was nothing less than a complete work of
art.
Mehr als ein Champion: Über den
Stil des Boxers Muhammad Ali
140 pages, 145 x 210
ISBN 978-3-86854-269-1
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»Muhammad Ali defeated Liston, Frazier, Foreman, and a society that couldn’t stand a
self-assured Afro-American athlete«, writes Jan Philipp Reemtsma, who describes in his essay
the three-time heavyweight world champion, the dancing boxing aesthete, the cocky braggart, the black rebel, and the Muslim convert who refused to serve in the military. This book
is, as Jochem Hieber wrote in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, a »kind of philology of
watching television «, for More Than a Champion retraces Ali’s most important fights as if in
slow motion, focusing on his »strategy and tactics, his finesses and feints«.
Ali’s fights, his personality and his self-assured proclamations that he was everything an
Afro-American was not supposed to be—good-looking, self-confident, boastful—made him
an important figure for the US civil rights movement and ultimately an internationally
recognized symbol of the spirit of freedom. Muhammad Ali was more than an outstanding
boxing champion. He was a master of archaic violence and a hero of modern society. Jan
Philipp Reemtsma’s portrait reveals how these seemingly contrary roles come together in one
unique contemporary figure.
Jan Philipp Reemtsma is a professor of modern German literature at the University of Hamburg. The founder and
director of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and the Arno Schmidt Foundation, he has published widely
on topics from literature, history, politics, and philosophy. His book Vertrauen und Gewalt has been translated into
English (Trust and Violence), French, and Polish and will also be released in Spanish and Chinese.
Janosch Schobin
Friendship and Care: Report on a Social Form in Transition
Till death do we part? Explores the potential as well as the limits of new ideals that add the
dimension of care to notions of friendship
Demographic transition has immense impacts on the life styles of individuals. Low birth
rates change kinship and family relationships, transforming them into scarce resources. The
only child of two parents who are also only children has no siblings, aunts, uncles, or cousins.
At the same time, people are living longer, and rising numbers of elderly people require care.
It seems only a matter of time before predicted worst-cases scenarios become reality. In this
phase of social upheaval, the model of caring friendships has emerged as a shimmer of hope.
But can friends fulfill the promise of the new ideal of friendship?
Freundschaft und Fürsorge:
Bericht über eine Sozialform im
Wandel
264 pages, 145 x 210
ISBN 978-3-86854-266-0
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On the backdrop of the new dimensions and expectations that are reshaping concepts of
friendship, this study addresses the shifts in both discourse on friendship and how friends
actually live such relationships. Interviews with people of various generations and diverse
biographical backgrounds explore the sensitive spheres that are at the core of the new ideals.
What support practices can lead to a failure of friendship? Is it true that money and friends
don’t mix? Most importantly, can friends fulfill the expectations they now face, especially
with respect to physical care? Accompanying friends through illness and death poses challenges that underline the need to re-examine notions of what friends are and do.
Based on a multilayered perspective, the study offers a highly topical portrait of a social
form in transition. The changing public image of friendship corresponds to the increase in
significance of close, intimate, emotionally-sustained friendships on a practical level. Janosch
Schobin describes a transformation that emerges from two interlinked processes, in which
social care adopts more and more elements of friendship and, as a complementary shift,
friendship increasingly enters the realm of social care and corresponds to what has traditionally been a »feminine« ideal of friendship.
»...a sensitive analysis with a brillant theoretical base that seems to take up the ›spirit‹ of older German sociology at the
same time it builds a bridge to more recent research...« — Arnold Schmieder, socialnet.de
Janosch Schobin studied sociology, mathematics, and Hispanic studies and completed his doctoral degree at the
University of Kassel. He is now a researcher at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research.
Sebastian J. Moser
The Bottle Collector: In Search of an Urban Social Figure
»With his book, sociologist Sebastian J. Moser has presented a moving study that, while
portraying what seem to be marginal characters in our cities, goes straight to the heart of
society.« — Liane von Billerbeck, Deutschlandradio Kultur
Bottle collectors are now a ubiquitous phenomenon of urban life in Germany, elsewhere in
Europe, and in many US states: people who comb airports and sport stadiums, searching for
bottles and cans to redeem in exchange for the deposit fees. But the public and researchers
may know more about collecting and recycling in Cairo or Bogotá than about the »waste
pickers« we encounter—and often ignore—in the landscapes of consumer society.
Pfandsammler. Erkundungen
einer urbanen Sozialfigur
250 pages, 140 x 215 mm
ISBN 978-3-86854-276-9
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Deftly linking the results of ethnographic observation and interviews with analysis of the
legal context, and a historical review antecedents and collecting, from firewood to stamps,
Sebastian Moser offers a richly-layered narrative about who collects beverage containers, how
and why. Although many collectors lived near or below the poverty line, their primary motive may not necessarily be extra income. Moser's explorations suggest that bottle collecting
primarily targets needs that collectors share with mainstream contemporaries: the desire to
achieve and be part of social interactions and the need for routines that structure daily life.
People on the margins collect redeemables to (re-)integrate themselves—at least into
social spaces, if not into social relations—by meeting the norms of work-oriented society.
But they may be thwarted by municipal ordnances that seek to ban collectors, like beggars
and the homeless, from public view and by the stigmatization that targets people who do
society's dirty work. And in contrast to the rag collectors of earlier eras or people who collect,
sort, and recycle waste in Africa or Latin America, with their tightly-knit groups and local or
even transational networks, bottle collectors in industrial societies are mostly one-man or
-woman businesses. They lack the identification and support a group offers. In this respect,
as well, bottle collectors may be closer to mainstream realities than we care to acknowledge.
»›Pfandsammler‹ is an enlightening book. Written in an accessible sociological style, it leads us ... through the world
of bottle collectors. Whoever has read it will walk through train stations and pedestrian zones with different eyes.«
—Mirko Smiljanic, Deutschlandfunk
Sebastian J. Moser studied sociology, social anthropology, and economics in Bielefeld and received his doctorate
in sociology from the University of Freiburg. He now lives and teaches in Lyon, France, where he co-founded Labo
Co-Errance, an initiative to promote alternative forms of research and education.
Jörg Dürrschmidt
Back from Globalization?
Returnees as a Social Figure in Modernity
Is the homecomer a key contemporary social figure, embodying a turn from the disembedding
tendencies of globalization towards belonging and commitment in social bonds?
They are, in a manner of speaking, the »adoptive children« of globalization—women and
men who left their homes in what was once Communist East Germany after 1989. They
embarked on a »belated quest«, following the call of globalization in search of the apparent
boundlessness of contempory existence.
Many of them returned. What role do these »returnees« play in contemporary German
society? Have they brought the world back into their local environment? How have the dynamics of departure and return triggered transformation processes in society?
Rückkehr aus der Globalisierung?
Der Heimkehrer als Sozialfigur
der Moderne
302 pages, 140 x 215 mm
ISBN 978-3-86854-265-3
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For sociologist Jörg Dürrschmidt, returnees are highly symbolic figures that manifest the
tensions of the globalized world. His book examines whether modern returnees—in their
balancing act between gaining the world and losing one’s home, between success and failure,
between expanding options and the search for sustainable bonds—in fact capture the essence
of the ambivalent life-worlds of globalized modernity. Dürrschmidt seeks answers through
an in-depth exploration of the biographical milieu of people who set out into the world after
1989 and ultimately returned, for a variety of reasons. Far from offering a nostalgic view of
homecomings or a critique of naive cosmopolitanism, his analysis suggests that yearning for
home may be an active, forward-oriented quest for ways of belonging in the face of the purportedly endless opportunities for being and participating in today's world.
We are all familar with the Odyssey as a epic narartive and ubiquitous metaphor for the
perpetual tension between the allure of distant places and the pains of homesickness. But the
realities of the returnee and his or her role in contemporary society is largely uncharted territory. This book unfolds a panorama of the phenomenology of those who return home and
links their experience to contemporary work from the perspective of migration and globalization studies.
Jörg Dürrschmidt is currently an interim professor of sociology at the University of Freiburg and was previously a
sociology lecturer at the University of the West of England, Bristol, and at the Universities of Kassel, Darmstadt, and
Freiburg. He is co-author, with Graham Taylor, of Globalisation, Modernity and Social Change: Hotspots of Transition (2007) and author of Everyday Lives in the Global City: The Delinking of Locale and Milieu (2000).
Heinz Bude / Thomas Medicus / Andreas Willisch (eds.)
Life in Times of Change: Case Study Wittenberge, Facets of
a Fragmented Society
»This attractive volume offers insights into everyday life in a town that is an instructive
example for the impacts of industrialization in Europe.« —Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Between 2007 and 2010 social scientists from various research institutions and theater
professionals spent weeks and months in Wittenberge, a small town in the German state
of Brandenburg, halfway between Hamburg and Berlin.
ÜberLeben im Umbruch:
Am Beispiel Wittenberge:
Ansichten einer fragmentierten
Gesellschaft
360 pages, 215 x 270 mm
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Wittenberge was once a prosperous industrial center with Europe’s most advanced
sewing machine factory. In the early 1990s, soon after Germany’s reunification, all but one
of the town’s largest plants were decommissioned. Within weeks, thousands of residents
lost their jobs and a thriving industrial region lapsed into a process of rapid decline. In the
past two decades, many people in Wittenberge have had to deal with dramatic losses— of
their work, their identity, their pride. Many have also lost their hometown: the population
has dropped from more than 30,000 in 1989 to less that 19,000 today and shrinkage continues unabated.
Wittenberge exemplifies the processes of deindustrialization, population drain, and
the fragmentation of society. What are the impacts of these phenomena on social structure? Do they mark new beginnings or are they accompanied by resignation? Who goes
and who stays? How do people organize »survival« under such conditions? What creates
social cohesion and what positive aspects can be discerned in the midst of such upheaval?
»ÜberLeben im Umbruch is recommended reading for every local politician who doesn’t find himself in an established town with a secure future, for the book is like the project: Impressive. Unsettling. Moving«« —Liane von
Billerbeck, Deutschlandradio
»… combines academic analysis with an honest contemporary portrait, written with great care and dedication,
[complemented by] generous typography and fine design. With this format and content, the book can also be considered a respectful declaration of affection for the people in this town.« —Rainer Dyk, Schweriner Volkszeitung
Heinz Bude is a sociologist and director of the Research Unit: The Society of the Federal Republic of Germany.
He is also a professor for macrosociology at the University of Kassel; Thomas Medicus is a journalist and writer
and a collaborator with the Hamburg Institute for Social Research within the joint project »Überleben im Umbruch«; Andreas Willisch is a sociologist and heads the Thünen Institute for Regional Development, Bollewick.
Frank-Olaf Radtke
Cultures Don’t Talk: The Politics of Border-crossing Dialogues
»Intercultural discourse, as this astute book shows, may be well-meaning. But whether it
does any good is an entirely different question. At times the good old adage about talk being
silver while silence is golden also holds for intercultural affairs.« —Kersten Knipp, SWR2
Can »dialogues between cultures« prevent discrimination and promote integration or even
avert conflicts and violence between people with different religious or ethnic backgrounds?
This is the question posed by Frank-Olaf Radtke in view of countless forums for dialogue
established on the international, European, national, and local level in recent years.
Kulturen sprechen nicht:
Die Politik grenzüber
schreitender Dialoge
151 pages, 110 x 175
ISBN 978-3-86854-238-7
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Responding to growing tensions and fears of an impending »Clash of Civilizations«, the
United Nations declared 2001 the »Year of Dialogue among Civilizations«. And in the European Union and Germany, dialogue between cultures and religions has officially been
deemed the appropriate tool for solving the problems associated with immigration and integration. Radtke contests the effectiveness of dialogue as an instrument for achieving consensus on controversies that arise due to divergent beliefs or practices among people with
different ethnic, cultural, or religious backgrounds. Cultures, he insists, can neither become
parties to a conflict nor can they speak or act. Dialogues between cultures blur difference
rather than acknowledging underlying conflicts and dealing with them publically in ways
that make it possible to negotiate compromises.
In calling for disputes rather than dialogue, the author has much more in mind than
merely substituting one term for another. Political discourse can open the way for the kind
of controversy over real social problems that does not lose sight of the future. Only when we
learn to create appropriate frameworks for real public disputes can we realize solutions for
peaceful co-existence in a common legal order that everyone can accept, regardless of their
background.
Frank-Olaf Radtke was a professor of education at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in F rankfurt am Main until
2011 and has published widely in the field of education and related issues of social and political relevance.
Dierk Walter / Birthe Kundrus (eds.)
Arms, Knowledge, and Change: Adaptation and Learning in Initial
Transcultural Clashes
Learning from the enemy? How do societies that hardly know, much less understand one
another, wage war in the context of initial transcultural clashes—and adapt military strategy
in the process?
Waffen Wissen Wandel:
Anpassung und Lernen in
transkulturellen Erstkonflikten
302 pages, 140 x 215 mm
ISBN 978-3-86854-241-7
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When Al Qaida troops were forced to abandon the caves of Tora Bora in December 2001,
US soldiers allegedly found an annotated copy of Clausewitz’s On War they had left behind.
Today, it is no secret that Al Qaida leaders circulate texts from Western military thinkers in
their training camps, and adopt ideas, strategies and equipment from the West. But military
learning processes that cut across cultural divides are not an invention of our century; they
were widespread across the globe in the era of European expansion and wars of empire. In
contrast to enemies in the age of internet, these parties in conflict often clashed during a first
encounter, with little or no prior knowledge of one another. Exactly what and how did
military leaders learn from their adversaries in such initial transcultural conflicts, when learning in the face of extraordinary obstacles was crucial to survival? And when were the limits
to learning reached?
International scholars explore the transfer of knowledge, arms, equipment, and doctrines
in wars of empire, in particular between parties that knew little or nothing about one another
before the confrontation. Their findings emphasize the relevance of adaptation and transfer
processes for modern imperial expansion and military success or failure. Their examples
range from the Mongolian invasion of Japan in 1274 to the Spanish conquest of Mexico in
1518 to the wars waged by the Hehe against German colonial troops in East Africa in 1891.
Three introductory essays on concepts of learning, the significance of cultural intermediaries, and the specific forms of tribal warfare in violent transcultural conflicts provide a valuable framework for this volume as well as future research.
Birthe Kundrus is a historian and professor of social and economic history at the University of Hamburg;
Dierk Walter is a historian and fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research.
Birthe Kundrus, Dierk Walter Military Learning in Initial Transcultural Clashes: Background – Issues – Findings
Marian Füssel Learning – Transfer – Appropriation: Theories and
Concepts for Transcultural Military History
Jürg Helbling Tribal Wars and Expanding States
Mark Häberlein The Power and Powerlessness of Words:
Cultural Intermediaries in Violent Conflicts between Europeans
and Non-Europeans.
Ross Hassig Clash and Consequence in the Conquest of Mexico
Armstrong Starkey Learning in Colonial Warfare: English North
America
Thomas J. Lappas Learning Amid Bloodshed: French-Native
American Interactions in the Era of Exploration in North America
Michael Charney Iberians and Southeast Asians at War:
The Violent First Encounter at Melaka in 1511 and After
Michael Khodarkovsky War and Peace: What Russia Did and Did
Not Learn on Its Asian Frontiers
John Connor The British and the Darug: First Violent Contacts
in Australia, 1788-1816
James Belich War and Transcultural Learning in Nineteenth
Century New Zealand
Tanja Bührer The Hehe and the Schutztruppe in German East
Africa: The Battle at Rugaro in 1891
Wolfgang Schwentker Cursing or Negotiating? The Mongolian
Invasions of Japan in 1274 and 1281
Bettina Greiner
Repressed Terror: History and Perceptions of Soviet Special Camps
in Germany
• Geisteswissenschaften International award for funding of the English translation
• Third place, Best Historical Book 2010, historical journal DAMALS, category focused
monograph
Bettina Greiner
Ver dr ä ng ter Ter r or
Geschichte und
Wahr nehmung s owje t is cher S peziallager
in Deu t s chland
Hamburger
Institut für
Sozialforschung
Edition.
Verdrängter Terror: Geschichte
und Wahrnehmung der
sowjetischen Speziallager
in Deutschland
525 pages, 145 x 210 mm
ISBN 978-3-86854-217-2
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On 17 January 1950, the newspaper Neues Deutschland announced closure of the Speziallager,
ten previously unacknowledged special camps established by the Soviet NKVD in occupied
East Germany, where more than 150,000 Germans were held between April 1945 and early
1950. Repressed Terror examines why not only former Nazi party members but people indiscriminately accused of »counterrevolutionary crimes«, many mere teenagers, were imprisoned without outside contacts, without a trial, under catastrophic conditions. One-third
died of starvation, disease, or exposure.
Bettina Greiner argues that these camps−many set up in former Nazi concentration
camps or prisons−had little to do with denazification plans but rather aimed to pacify East
Germany, stabilize Soviet hegemony, and terrorize those deemed its enemies. Drawing on
sources that include some 750 reports penned by former inmates, her ground-breaking
analysis explores the violence perpetrated by guards, the role of »prisoner-functionaries« in
maintaining order, and how internal conflicts were played out. Greiner also discusses why
former camp inmates have been denied recognition as victims of Stalinist terror, adding new
facets to our understanding of the complex relations between victims and perpetrators that
emerged in the Cold War era.
»[An] excellent study … Greiner dissects conditions in the camps meticulously and, in the end, one wonders why we
had to wait sixty years after their closing and twenty years after unification for such a book to be published.« —Claus
Leggewie, Süddeutsche Zeitung
»Greiner is to be applauded for her achievement in investigating this dark chapter of German post-war history systematically, comprehensively, and in an exemplary manner for the first time. This book should become required reading in
schools.« —Christian Hacke, Die Welt
»Bettina Greiner’s well-written book will no doubt soon be considered a standard work.« —Rudolf Walther, Frankfurter
Rundschau
»With her comprehensive book, which draws in part on hitherto inaccessible sources, Greiner has presented the first
complete—and harrowing—account of the special camps. Thanks to her intellectually impartial and subtle analysis of
the sources, the author makes an important contribution to our understanding of survivors’ memories … memories that
have long been denied and deformed by the ideologies of the Cold War.« —H.-J. Modlmayr, Deutschlandradio Kultur
Bettina Greiner is a historian whose research focuses on the history of violence in Germany and twentieth-century
cultures of memory.
Tim B. Müller
After World War I: Crisis and Survival of Modern Democracies
• A reexamination of the period between the two world wars as a crucial phase in the
emergence of modern democracies
• »There is something fascinating, encouraging ,and nonetheless alarminging about
Müller’s undertaking, especially because he draws parallels to our times.— Erhard Eppler,
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Nach dem ersten Weltkrieg:
Lebensversuche moderner
Demokratien
120 pages, 110 x 175 mm
ISBN 978-3-86854-279-0
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World War I was the »seminal catastrophe« of the twentieth century. In its wake came the
development of modern democracy. Limitations to voting rights fell and modern knowledge-based society was born. Many »old« democracies at last become democracies in every
sense, and new democracies emerged throughout Europe at a rapid pace. Based on broad
socio-political foundations, the establishment of the democratic welfare state commenced.
This perspective highlights the need to revise mainstream concepts of the interwar period,
concepts that all too often focus on the crises and political developments that led to World
War II. Although in some states democracy soon was forced into a defensive position—and
the Weimar Republic, as the most modern democracy of the period, failed, leading to enormous upheaval in Europe’s center—Scandinavia, Great Britain, and the United States continued on the path of establishing social democracy.
To learn why modern democracies can fail, as well as how they can retain their stability
and vitality in fundamental crises, we must examine the interwar period between World War
I and World War II, an era in which our own political and social world was born.
Tim B. Müller is a historian and research fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. He is also an editor of
the journal Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte. His first book published by Hamburger Edition, Krieger und Gelehrte:
Herbert Marcuse und die Denksysteme im Kalten Krieg [ Warriors and Scholars: Herbert Marcuse and Cold War Culture], is a study of German émigrés in the US and their role in the intellectual history of the Cold War.
Tim B. Müller
Warriors and Scholars: Herbert Marcuse and Cold War Culture
• Fraenkel Prize 2009 in twentieth-century history, Wiener Library, London
• Humboldt Prize 2009 from Humboldt University Berlin
Krieger und Gelehrte:
Herbert Marcuse und die
Denksysteme im Kalten Krieg
736 pages, 145 x 210 mm
ISBN 978-3-86854-222-6
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How did the connections forged in the 1940s between leftist, émigré intellectuals −Herbert
Marcuse, Otto Kirchheimer, Franz Neumann, and others−, their American left-liberal counterparts, and the U.S. intelligence services shape Cold War culture? Together with American
scholars like historians Stuart Hughes and Carl Schorske and sociologist Barrington Moore,
prominent exiles from Nazi Germany joined the staff of the Office of Strategic Services
(OSS) during World War II. Until 1945, their research on the Allies’ enemies and on psychological warfare targeted Nazi Germany. This focus then shifted to the rest of Europe, especially the Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc, as many continued to cooperate with the State
Department or the CIA−openly or clandestinely.
Contextualizing this informal German-American network between European democratic socialism and New Deal thinking for the first time within the early bloc confrontation,
this fascinating book demonstrates that the links forged in wartime not only promoted careers in prestigious academic institutions. Scholars who had warned against provoking a bloc
confrontation in background papers for the OSS and the State Department went on to
elaborate alternative interpretations of the post-war political landscape. Warriors and Scholars offers a unique perspective on the intellectual architecture of the Cold War and on the
politics of an entire era.
»…offer[s] important methodological innovations for the writing of intellectual history […] fascinating account of German émigrés in American exile during and after the Second World War. Written in an accessible, at times even gripping,
style, Müller unearths what he describes as the ›secret history of intellectuals‹ during the Cold War. […] By highlighting
how specific institutional settings—intelligence communities, philanthropic organizations—not just influenced but
actually shaped intellectual approaches, Müller’s study is exemplary…« —Frank Biess, History and Theory
»Tim B. Müeller has succeeded in producing something remarkable: a monumental contribution to the history of ideas
and intellectual history of the Cold War, which presents the results of intensive archival research in a clearly structured
form and brilliant literary style.« —Rolf Wiggershausen, Frankfurter Rundschau
Tim B. Müller joined the Hamburg Institute for Social Research as a research fellow in 2010. His work focuses on
the Cold War, the history of ideas and intellectuals, and on the history of violence, war, and peace.
Regina Mühlhäuser
Conquests: German Soldiers’ Involvement in Sexual Violence and Intimate
Relations in the Soviet Union, 1941–45
• Volkswagen Foundation grant for the Japanese translation
Conquests examines for the first time the entire spectrum of heterosexual activities of German
soldiers in the occupied Soviet Union and the policies of the Nazi military leadership. Despite official condemnation of relations between »Aryans« and »racially inferior« Eastern
Europeans, soldiers perpetrated sex crimes−coerced disrobement, sexual torture, assault,
individual or gang rape−throughout the USSR. Also widespread were relations with women
who traded sex for protection or food, consensual liaisons, and visits to secret prostitutes−or
to official military brothels.
Eroberungen: Sexuelle Gewalttaten und intime Beziehungen
deutscher Soldaten in der
Sowjetunion 1941 – 1945
416 pages, 145 x 210 mm
ISBN 978-3-86854-217-2
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Regina Mühlhäuser shows how attempts to channel soldiers’ behavior through instruction on venereal disease, medical exams for soldiers and prostitutes, and military brothels
could both curb sexual acts and create opportunities for men who might otherwise have
abstained from sex. Although both the Wehrmacht and the SS opted to regulate rather than
repress, the Wehrmacht stressed »racial consciousness« and could punish offenders severely,
while the SS emphasized the risks of disease and espionage and penalized clandestine encounters. Also analyzed are plans to screen children born after such sexual encounters and
select those viewed as having »Aryan potential«. This book greatly enhances our understanding of broader issues at the interfaces between masculinity, combat readiness, violence, and
sexuality in wartime.
»Regina Mühlhäuser’s impressive book … sets a new standard for understanding Nazi occupation policies in the Soviet
Union … a detailed and nuanced picture … At the same time, she is acutely aware of the difficult methodological issues
involved in studying sexuality and men at war.« —Norman Naimark, Francia-Recensio
»A new study examines sexual violations by German soldiers in the war against the Soviet Union and demolishes the
legend of the unblemished Wehrmacht.« —Jan Friedmann, Der Spiegel
»Thanks to her innovative research focus, the study’s multiple perspectives, her clear argument, and careful use of
terminology, Mühlhäuser has made an important contribution to this field of research.« —Maren Röger, Zeitschrift für
Geschichtswissenschaft
»Regina Mühlhäuser describes what men do when they are at war and encounter women. The result is especially
impressive because she abstains from moral comments. She has written a chapter in the story of wartime violence that
focuses on Germany’s war of annihilation but can claim relevance far beyond this case study.« —Harald Welzer,
Deutschlandradio Kultur
Regina Mühlhäuser is a guest fellow and co-coordinator of the Working Group on War and Gender at the
Hamburg Institute for Social Research.
Elissa Mailänder Koslov
Workaday Violence: Female SS Guards at Lublin/Majdanek Concentration
Camp, 1942–1944
• Awarded a Geisteswissenschaften International grant for complete funding of
German-to-English translation
Gewalt im Dienstalltag
Die SS-Aufseherinnen des Konzentrations- und
Vernichtungslagers Majdanek 1942–1944
Hamburger
Institut für
Sozialforschung
Edition.
Gewalt im Dienstalltag:
Die SS-Aufseherinnen des
Konzentrationsund Vernich
tungslagers Majdanek 1942–1944
520 pages, 145 x 210 mm
ISBN 978-3-86854-212-7
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University Press)
• Winner of the Herbert Steiner Prize 2008, reputed Austrian award for outstanding
scholarship on the Nazi era
Cultural historian Elissa Mailänder Koslov examines the day-to-day work of women employed by the SS as overseers in the Lublin/Majdanek concentration camp. Drawing on
official Nazi records, post-war testimony, memoirs, and filmed interviews, the author outlines the broad spectrum of guards’ backgrounds and motives before focusing on their free
time activities and behavior on the job−supervising work commandos, conducting roll calls,
and sending girls and women to death in the gas chambers. Workaday Violence reveals how
individual propensities and the social order of the concentration camp shaped a microcosm
in which many (but by no means all) female guards quickly adapted to not only observing
but also perpetrating violence as a ubiquitous element of workaday life.
Careful scrutiny of conflicts among female guards, internal hierarchies, and relations
with superiors and male colleagues reveals how work routines, pressure to »resolve problems«, material gratification, and Nazi propaganda stressing guards’ role in »creating a new
order« heightened the overseers’ identification with Nazi policies and their willingness to
terrorize prisoners not only when they were under orders to do so.
An important contribution to the gender history of Nazi Germany, this study also promotes our understanding of how »ordinary women« can become capable of brutal violence.
»The book demonstrates … that young women … often acted to a considerable degree on their own initiative to ensure
the functioning of an extermination camp … a significant contribution to gender history and research on [Nazi] perpetrators … By elucidating the horrific ›workaday routines‹ of these female perpetrators in Majdanek and confronting the
abysmal anthropological depths of a topic that is still taboo, the author helps reconstruct how the murder of Europe’s
Jews could become reality.« —Bernward Dörner, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Elissa Mailänder Koslov is a cultural historian on the staff of the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales
who also coordinates the doctoral program of the Centre interdisciplinaire d’études et de recherches sur
l’Allemagne in Paris.
Bernd Greiner
War without Fronts: The USA in Vietnam
• Willi Paul Adams Award 2009, Organization of American Historians
• Shortlisted for the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2008, category non-fiction / essay
• Best Historical Book of 2008, historical journal DAMALS
• Best Historical Book 2008, H-Soz-u-Kult, category »non-European history«
Krieg ohne Fronten:
Die USA in Vietnam
595 pages, 155 x 230 mm
60 images
ISBN 978-3-936096 80-5
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World English (Bodley Head),
US English (Yale University Press)
What happened »on the ground« during the Vietnam War, especially war-related violence
against civilians, has hardly been examined in depth. This first scholarly evaluation of material from the US Army’s own investigative body, the Vietnam War Crimes Working Group,
shows that violations of international codes of warfare were neither singular occurrences, nor
the acts of a few individuals. Bernd Greiner elucidates the factors that led to the escalation
of violence against non-combatants. He also probes America’s responses to war-crime
charges, drawing on a second extensive collection: 30,000 citizens’ letters and petitions to
the President and the Pentagon. By illuminating the dynamics of an asymmetric war and the
legal and humanitarian issues, this award-winning book addresses questions that resonate in
contemporary discussions.
»Bernd Greiner’s book [will] change the way we look at this war … an important, an outstanding book. Its comprehensive command of the sources and literature, astute analysis, and high degree of objectivity and differentiation are
impressive.« —Volker Ullrich, Die Zeit
»A brilliant analysis of America’s defeat in Vietnam is a cautionary tale for those fighting the War on Terror.« —Allan
Mallinson, The Times
»Greiner has made a very important contribution to the scholarly literature on the Vietnam War, and he has produced
a model of a study on the history of violence. This is one of the best history books I have read for a long time.« —Marc
Frey, The International History Review
»[T]he most comprehensive account yet of war crimes in Vietnam (and the most pertinent in terms of Iraq and Afghanistan) … a stupendously well-researched study … This is far more than an account of a historical event, of great
interest only to specialists or ageing veterans of the Anti-Vietnam War campaigns. War Without Fronts has far wider
implications.« —Jonathan Mirsky, Literary Review
»Greiner adds a new and hitherto much-overlooked dimension to the study of the Vietnam War. … While highly critical of American politics, Greiner’s book is not an anti-American account but a thorough assessment …« —Klaus Larres,
Journal of American History
Bernd Greiner directs the Research Unit: Theory and History of Violence at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research
and is a professor of history at the University of Hamburg.
Hamburg Institute for Social Research (ed.)
»Where to with … ?«
»This enterprise is as fruitful as it is appealing … None of the [thinkers] in this canon of the
social sciences should be allowed to vanish into the void—in other words, into the ivory tower.
These forty-page volumes whet one’s appetite and may serve as an inducement to (once
again) take a closer look ...« —Andreas Debski, Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten
»Wie weiter mit … ?«
8 paperbacks in slipcase
39-67 pages each, 90 x 120 mm
complete set
ISBN 978-3-936096-97-2
September 2008
Available rights
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How does the work of groundbreaking nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholars remain
relevant for contemporary issues and the future of the social sciences and humanities? This
collection unites a range of approaches to classic texts from sociology, philosophy, or psychology: some scholars reassess core concepts, others explore aspects considered »marginal«.
These points of departure yield surprising trajectories in a set of transdisciplinary essays that
offer intriguing, fresh perspectives on canonical works and the future of scholarship.
»Eight small books of formidable content! Those who seek, like Faust, to recognize ›what holds the world together at
its core‹ should delve into these volumes, not because of answers to be found there but because they offer new and
stimulating questions pertinent to a resolution of the Faustian enigma that may be relevant in the postmodern age. The
Hamburg Institute for Social Research has finally done … what every student of sociology hopes for … It asked distinguished German sociologists how we should deal with the classics of sociology in the face of postmodern conditions …
Thus, this publication … is to be recommended not only for all undergraduate sociology students, but especially for
them. Highly practical is the way the volumes fit into anyone’s pants pocket so that they can be whipped out at any time
… No matter where, it is certainly worthwhile.« —Thomas Hummitsch, literature.de
Ulrich Bielefeld on Max Weber | Matthias Koenig on Emile Durkheim | Wolfgang Bonß on Theodor W. Adorno | Armin
Nassehi on Niklas Luhmann | Heinz Bude on Karl Marx | Jan Philipp Reemtsma on Sigmund Freud | Rahel Jaeggi on
Hannah Arendt | Philipp Sarasin on Michel Foucault
Michael Wildt
Volksgemeinschaft as Self-Empowerment: Violence
against Jews in Provincial Germany, 1919 to 1939
• Translation funding prize Geisteswissenschaften International
• First place, Audience Choice, Historical Book 2008, H-Soz-u-Kult
• Fourth place, Best Non-Fiction Book (Börsenblatt/Buchjournal/NDR/SZ)
Volksgemeinschaft als
Selbstermächtigung: Gewalt gegen Juden in der deutschen
Provinz 1919 bis 1939
423 pages, 139 x 210 mm
16 images
ISBN 978-3-936096 74-3
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Yad Vashem Publications)
Wildt retraces the creation of the Volksgemeinschaft by exploring how local violence was legitimized by Nazi policies that isolated Jews as disenfranchised outcasts and stigmatized
solidarity with them.
»… one of the most innovative historians of contemporary history working in Germany today. … marked by imaginative
questions and answers that are arrestingly original, patiently reconstructed, close to the sources, and justly influential
… impresses not just for reinterpreting a topic … but for recalibrating our lens onto the Third Reich.«
Michael Wildt is a professor of contemporary German history at Humboldt University Berlin.
Michael Wildt
Generation of the Unbound: The Leadership Corps of the
Reichssicherheitshauptamt
• First place in the categories Contemporary History / Audience Award, Best Historical Book
2002, H-Soz-u-Kult
• Third place, category Monographs, Historical Book 2002, journal DAMALS
• Second place, Best Non-Fiction Book (Börsenblatt/Buchjournal/NDR/SZ)
Generation des Unbedingten:
Das Führungskorps des
Reichssicherheitshauptamtes
964 pages, 155 x 230 mm
ISBN 978-3-930908-87-5
Paperback, April 2003
(Hardback 2002)
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Wisconsin Press), Japanese
(Bensei Shuppan)
»… without a doubt the definitive study of the RSHA … a tremendous aid for historical research on National Socialist
Germany and the Holocaust for years to come.« —Saul Friedländer, Los Angeles
»… an imposing account of the SS Reichssicherheitshauptamt … adds an essential element to this emergent picture. …
shows how an appreciation of ideology’s importance can be fully combined not only with the best kind of social history,
but also with broad-gauged cultural analysis and an institutional approach to the study of politics.« —Geoff Eley, University of Michigan
An abridged version of this volume (ca. 500 print pages) is also available.
Michael Wildt (ed.)
Intelligence Service, Political Elite, and Murder Squad:
The Security Service of the Reichsführer SS
»It is impossible to do justice to the sheer breadth and depth of all the papers in this volume,
but this collection is a valuable one indeed … with Wildt’s other work … forms an important
nucleus for future research on the SD.« —Kevin J. Crichton, H-Net Reviews
Nachrichtendienst, politische
Elite und Mordeinheit:
Der Sicherheitsdienst des
Reichsführers SS
387 pages, 139 x 210 mm
ISBN 978-3-930908-84-4
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Seminal studies on the Security Service of the Reichsführer SS, one of the most important
institutions installed by the Nazi regime to implement its program of persecution and extermination.
»… argued in detail and heavily documented with archival sources. The cohesiveness of the volume is outstanding as
the authors cover the SD from the later days of the Weimar Republic to the post-World War II era … a seminal contribution...« —Andrew R. Carlson, German Studies Review
Bernd Leineweber / Christian Schneider / Cordelia Stillke
Napola’s Legacy: Towards a Generational History of
National Socialism
»The authors successfully transport readers into the seemingly absurd world of the ›Napola‹,
presenting facts, explanations, and testimony … In the end, one comprehends how these
schools functioned. « — Matthias von Hellfeld, Das Parlament
Das Erbe der Napola: Versuch
einer Generationengeschichte
des Nationalsozialismus
394 pages, 155 x 230 mm
ISBN 978-3-930908-25-7
Hardback, April 1996 (new paperback edition, February 2009)
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The »Nationalpolitischen Erziehungsanstalten« (Napola) were boarding schools for ten- to
eighteen-year-olds destined to become the Nazi elite. Many Napola graduates took up highranking positions in the private or public sector−in the young West German democracy after
1945. Based on interviews with former students and their children, the authors reflect on the
legacy of Nazi education and trace the subconscious identificatory patterns that survived the
end of the National Socialist regime.
Christian Schneider is a sociologist, psychoanalyst, and researcher at the Sigmund Freud I nstitute in Frankfurt am
Main; Cordelia Stillke is a social scientist and psychoanalyst; Bernd Leineweber is a sociologist who works as a
freelance writer in Germany and Italy.
Peter Klein
»Ghetto Administration Litzmannstadt«:
A Municipal Bureaucracy and the Politics of
Extermination, 1940– 1944
»There can be no doubt that Peter Klein has presented a fundamental book, rich in
numerous small and a number of big new insights based on decades of research.«
—Jost Dülffer, H-Soz-u-Kult
Die »Gettoverwaltung
Litzmannstadt« 1940–1944:
Eine Dienststelle im Spannungsfeld von Kommunalbürokratie
und staatlicher Verfolgungs
politik
680 pages, 145 x 210 mm
ISBN 978-3-86854-203-5
Hardback, February 2009
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Analysis of newly available documents shows how local civil German administrators of the
Łódz. (Litzmannstadt) ghetto were actively involved in the Holocaust and sheds new light
on the interactions between exploitation, annihilation, and the pursuit of economic profitability.
»No, the Germans were not ›taken advantage of by a pack of criminals‹, as Pope Benedict XVI claimed in Auschwitz [in
2006]; there were numerous committed perpetrators throughout the Nazi administration, as Peter Klein convincingly
argues.« —Jens-Jürgen Ventzki, Süddeutsche Zeitung
Peter Klein is a historian and research fellow with the Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and
Culture.
Andrej Angrick
Occupation Politics and Mass Murder:
The Einsatzgruppe D in the Southern Soviet Union,
1941 – 1943
»… more than a history of the mobile killing unit … an impressive and interesting compendium and analysis … will take its place among the classic works dealing with the German
occupation of the Soviet Union.« —Peter Black, Central European History
Besatzungspolitik und
Massenmord: Die Einsatzgruppe
D in der südlichen Sowjetunion
1941-1943
796 pages, 155 x 230 mm
13 images, 4 maps
ISBN 978-3-930908-91-2
»Angrick has written a carefully argued book that, rather than demonizing the perpetrators, reveals their very
mediocrity. For those interested in the German occupation practices and the war of annihilation against the Soviet
Union, this is an indispensable book.« —Christoph Mick, Osteuropa
Andrej Angrick is a historian with the Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and Culture.
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Christian Gerlach
Calculated Murders: German Economic Policies and the
Politics of Annihilation in Belorussia, 1941 to 1944
• Best Historical Monograph of the year 2000, historical journal DAMALS
• First place, Best Non-Fiction Book (Börsenblatt / Buchjournal / NDR / SZ)
Kalkulierte Morde: Die deutsche
Wirtschafts- und Vernichtungspolitik
in Weißrußland 1941 bis 1944
1232 pages, 155 x 230 mm
ISBN 978-3-930908-63-9
Hardback, November 2000
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Of all the regions occupied by the Nazis, Belorussia suffered the greatest decimation of its
population. Gerlach analyses the goals and deeds of Nazi authorities and practices of the SS,
Wehrmacht, and police units there and draws on the previously separate histories of institutions, everyday life, and economics under Nazi rule to reveal the unrecognized links between
economic interests and mass murder.
»Gerlach’s ambitious study of German occupation policy in Belorussia documents in careful detail the deliberate mass
murder of Soviet prisoners of war, Jews, and other civilians. … Genuinely innovative is Gerlach’s analysis of how the
implementation of economic policy influenced the transition to genocide against specific population groups.« —Martin
C. Dean, German History
Christian Gerlach is a historian and professor at the University of Bern; he was formerly an assistant professor at
the University of Pittsburgh.
Christian Gerlach
War, Food, Genocide: Studies on the German Politics of
Extermination in World War II
»The three essays in this volume make a substantial contribution to the recently reinvigorated
debate on the development of Nazi genocide.« —Donald Bloxham, German History
Krieg, Ernährung, Völkermord:
Forschungen zur deutschen
Vernichtungspolitik im Zweiten
Weltkrieg
308 pages, 139 x 210 mm
ISBN 978-3-930908-39-4
Paperback, September 1998
With an earlier essay about December 1941, the month in which Hitler’s decision to murder
all European Jews was made public, Christian Gerlach aroused the attention of historians on
both sides of the Atlantic. In this study, he expands the perspective of that essay and presents
new insights on the motives and processes leading up to the Nazi leadership’s decision to
perpetrate genocide.
Christian Gerlach is a historian and professor at the University of Bern; he was formerly an assistant professor at
the University of Pittsburgh.
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(Bollati Boringhieri), Czech (Institut Terezínské Iniciativy
Karin Orth
The National Socialist Concentration Camp System:
The History of a Political Organization
»… will replace Broszat’s as the standard work on the development of the camp system …
This is a very well-written, clearly structured and coherently argued book.« —Nikolaus Wachsmann, German History
Das System der nationalsozialis
tischen Konzentrationslager:
Eine politische Organisations
geschichte
396 pages, 155 x 230 mm
ISBN 978-3-930908-52-3
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Did the Nazi concentration camps together form a system? Were their structures comparable
or even identical? Karin Orth’s systematic study shows how the development of the concentration camps unfolded in various phases, corresponding to changing orientations in the
politics of repression. Based on numerous documents that become available after the fall of
the Iron Curtain, including camp commandatura records, survivors’ reports, and files from
some 100 trials of Nazi perpetrators, this work underlines the assertion that the historiography of the Nazi camps is far from complete.
Karin Orth is a historian and researcher in the History Department of the University of Freiburg.
Gudrun Schwarz
A Woman at His Side: Wives in the
»SS-Sippengemeinschaft«
»Gudrun Schwarz has presented … an important book …« —Bernd G. Ulrich, Handelsblatt
Eine Frau an seiner Seite:
Ehefrauen in der SS-Sippen
gemeinschaft
340 pages, 155 x 230 mm
ISBN 978-3-930908-32-5
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Prószyński Media)
Historian Gudrun Schwarz analyzes typical lives of SS wives who based their families’ daily
lives on Nazi ideology, thus providing emotional support for their husbands. Many wives
not only knew about Nazi crimes but were accomplices and fellow perpetrators. They frequently visited their husbands at the sites of their murderous work or lived for years right
next to concentration camps. This book offers an alternative view of the history of women
in Nazi Germany, contrasting with the portrayal of women as victims that dominated postwar public discourse.
»The author is to be commended for documenting the participation of women in the crimes of the Nazi era and thus
working against the stubborn tendency to overlook and play down their contribution as perpetrators.« —Ulrike Jureit,
H-Soz-u-Kult
Gudrun Schwarz is a sociologist and historian and was a staff member of the Research Unit: Theory and History of
Violence at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research from 1995 to 2002.
Klaus Holz
Islamist, Democratic, and Anti-Zionist Anti-Semitism
»This is a small volume but one of considerable argumentative weight.« —Rainer Erb,
Das Parlament
Die Gegenwart des Antisemi
tismus: Islamistische, demokra
tische und antizionistische
Judenfeindschaft
113 pages, 110 x 175 mm
ISBN 978-3-936096-59-0
Klaus Holz analyses the activities, motivations and rhetoric of different anti-Semitic groups
as they have recently emerged in various milieus, from European neo-Nazis to Islamic terrorists. In all these contexts, manifestations of Anti-Semitism show an increasing structural
and ideological affinity. Muslims and Christians, Arabs and Europeans of all political convictions meet in today’s anti-Semitism.
»There is currently no better condensed account on this issue.« —Terz, Stattzeitung für Politik und Kultur in Düsseldorf
und Umgebung
Klaus Holz, a sociologist, was a lecturer and researcher at the Universities of Freiburg and Leipzig and the Economic University of Vienna; he now heads the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst.
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Klaus Holz
National Anti-Semitism: Analyzing a Weltanschauung
from the Perspective of the Sociology of Knowledge
»Holz’ brillant analysis, which is accessibly written despite the wide-ranging theoretical
issues discussed, is full of political dynamite.« —Dagmar Pöpping, Frankfurter Rundschau
Nationaler Antisemitismus:
Wissenssoziologie einer
Weltanschauung
615 pages, 155 x 230 mm
ISBN 978-3-930908-67-7
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Klaus Holz’ empirically well-founded, comparative analysis of contemporary paradigmatic
forms of anti-Semitism challenges common perspectives to argue that modern anti-Semitism is »national«.
»[This volume] is a pioneering contribution to sociological research on antisemitism that deserves attention beyond
disciplinary borders because of its concise methodology and its new and convincing results.« —Christhard Hoffmann,
Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
Klaus Holz, a sociologist, was a lecturer and researcher at the Universities of Freiburg and Leipzig and the Economic University of Vienna; he now heads the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst.
Thomas Haury
Antisemitism on the Left: Communist Ideology,
Nationalism, and Anti-Zionism in the Early German
Democratic Republic
»This important monograph offers a comprehensive and discerning analysis of anti-Semitic
thought in the context of the fundamental programmatic concepts of German communism.«
—PÄD Forum: Unterricht und Erziehen
Antisemitismus von links:
Kommunistische Ideologie,
Nationalismus und Anti
zionismus in der frühen DDR
527 pages, 155 x 230 mm
ISBN 978-3-930908-79-0
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As the Stalinist party purges reached their height in the early 1950s, they acquired a new,
scarcely veiled anti-Semitic impetus. High-ranking Communist Party functionaries behind
the Iron Curtain were publicly accused of plundering their countries in the service of Zionism and the US financial oligarchy. Haury examines the process of radicalization and nationalization in German communists’ programmatic thinking to show how anti-Semitism was
integrated into this ideology.
Thomas Haury studied sociology and history and was awarded his doctorate from the University of Freiburg in
2001 for the thesis upon which this book is based.
Malte Rolf
Soviet Mass Celebrations
• Best doctoral thesis in history, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen
• Klaus Mehnert Prize, German Society for Eastern European Studies
Das sowjetische Massenfest
454 pages, 155 x 230 mm
27 images
ISBN 978-3-936096-63-7
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World English (University of
Pittsburgh Press)
»… a brilliant analysis of the way mass celebrations were designed, planned, and orchestrated at the party center and
then transformed, modified, and reinterpreted on the peripheries of the Soviet Union … valuable assessment of the
export of Soviet ›celebration culture‹ to the ›peoples’ democracies‹ of Central and Eastern Europe.« —Balázs Apor, Kritika
»Precisely contextualized theoretically and historiographically without terminological or factual ballast … a festival in
language and style.« —Wim van Meurs, Das historisch-politische Buch
»… a stimulating example of an approach based in the history of culture and communication … and well written.« —
Matthias Stadelmann, H-Soz-u-Kult
»… an original, interesting, and well-researched monograph … adds much to our knowledge of the cultural history of
the Stalinist period … .marks a welcome departure in scholarship on Soviet festivals and celebrations … « —Lutz Häfner,
The Russian Review
Malte Rolf is a professor of contemporary Eastern European history at the University of Hanover.
Viola B. Georgi
Borrowed Memory: Historical Constructions of
Young Immigrants in Germany
»… What this important study reveals is that local spaces of experience connect with trans
national space and that, in this process, memories of the Holocaust are internationalized,
individualized, fragmented, and pluralized …« —Hiltrud Arens, German Studies Review
Entliehene Erinnerung:
Geschichtsbilder junger
Migranten in Deutschland
344 pages, 139 x 210 mm
ISBN 978-3-930908-89-9
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Viola Georgi explores the meaning of National Socialism and the Holocaust for young
people from immigrant families in Germany and develops a typology of how they position
themselves in relation to the history of the Nazi period. Her work highlights the need for
new educational concepts for the study of history and politics that incorporate youths’ own
»stories about history«.
Viola B. Georgi is an educator and sociologist at the Center for Applied Political Research, Munich.
Harald Welzer (ed.)
Social Memory: History, Remembrance, Tradition
»…enriches the discussion about memory within cultural studies: its most important merit is a
consistently transdisciplinary orientation that presents and incorporates the broad spectrum
of various theoretical and methodological approaches.« —Patrick Krassnitzer, H-Soz-u-Kult
Das soziale Gedächtnis:
Geschichte, Erinnerung,
Tradierung
350 pages, 139 x 210 mm
ISBN 978-3-930908-66-0
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International scholars from various fields reflect on the social organization of remembering
and forgetting as a form of communicative action in texts that open up thought-provoking
and controversial perspectives on symbolic and social practices, family conversation and
historiography, and on the relationship between history and memory in perceptions of the
Holocaust.
Contributors: Jan Assmann, John Borland, Mark Freeman, Anselm Haverkamp, Aleida Assmann, Gustav Jahoda,
Angela Keppler, Gertrud Koch, Dori Laub, Hans J. Markowitsch, Jörn Rüsen, Peter Seixas, Harald Welzer, Sam Wineburg, James E. Young, Moshe Zimmermann
Harald Welzer is a professor of social psychology at the University of Hanover.
Habbo Knoch
The Deed as Image: Photographs of the Holocaust in the
German Culture of Memory
»With this material-rich study, Knoch can rightfully claim to have made an essential
contribution to establishing photography as a source that is to be taken seriously in
historiography.« —Joachim Zeller, Wissenschaftlicher Literaturanzeiger
Die Tat als Bild: Fotografien
des Holocaust in der deutschen
Erinnerungskultur
1120 pages, 155 x 230 mm
142 images, 3 tables
ISBN 978-3-930908-73-8
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Habbo Knoch examines a broad array of materials to reveal the iconographic patterns of the
visual repertoire of Nazi crimes and elucidate their role in German public discourse about
the Nazi past.
»The media history recreated by Habbo Knoch is also a history of how post-war society dealt with National Socialism,
what was suppressed and what attempts were made to integrate the inconceivable in the media and make it manageable. This book is an important contribution to the power of images in a modern media society.« —Bernd Kleinhans,
shoa.de
Habbo Knoch is a researcher in the Department of History, University of Göttingen.
Bernd Greiner
The Making of a Legend: Henry Morgenthau
and Germany
»Morgenthau realized quite simply: genocide and wars of aggression must not go
unatoned … Bernd Greiner is to be credited with reconstructing this story in his brilliant
study.« —Michael Marek, Die Tageszeitung
Die Morgenthau-Legende:
Zur Geschichte eines
umstrittenen Plans
441 pages, 139 x 210 mm
66 images
ISBN 978-3-930908-07-3
Hardback, May 1995
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Neglected archival documents have been mined to re-assess prevalent interpretations of
Henry Morgenthau’s plans for post-1945 Germany and his purported goal of »pastoralization«. Fears that only a few Nazi perpetrators would be punished and the wish to ensure that
Germany would never again launch a war were the true motives. Morgenthau felt German
militarism could only be checked by changing social and economic structures, but his
agenda— »economic disarmament«, »dismantling the cartels«, and prosecuting industrialists
and bankers who collaborated with the Nazis— collided with post-war political expediencies.
Bernd Greiner is a historian and researcher at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research.
Bernd Greiner / Tim B. Müller / Klaas Voß (eds.)
Legacies of the Cold War
»One can only hope that the Hamburg Institute for Social Research will remain a stimulus for
work on these issues...« —Thomas König, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaften
Erbe des Kalten Krieges
approx. 500 pages, 155 x 230 mm
ISBN 978-3-86854-258-5
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More than twenty years ago, the Iron Curtain disappeared and with it a political order that
divided the world into two camps. But what remains of the political structures that lie behind the phrase »Cold War«? Have some of its practices and institutions survived its demise?
What political, social, military, and cultural liabilities and benefits have left their mark on
the world, directly and indirectly, right up to the present day? This final volume in the sixpart Cold War Studies series explores diverse aspects of the legacy of the bipolar global order,
ranging from nuclear waste to security policy to transnational relations. And it highlights the
continuities, ruptures, and transformations of Cold War developments.
Translated from English (individual chapters) by Felix Kurz
»Not only the scope of topics addressed is impressive. These volumes have also made clear just how productive research
on the Cold War from a multiple perspective can be.«—Georg Schild, H-Soz-u-Kult
Bernd Greiner is a political scientist and historian. He directs one of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research's
three research units and is a professor of history at the University of Hamburg. Tim B. Müller and Klaas Voß are
historians and research fellows at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research.
Bernd Greiner Probing Uncharted Territory: Research on the Con- Christoph Laucht Back to the Future: The Example of Great B ritain
sequences of the Cold War
Michael Brzoska, Götz Neuneck Going Vagrant? The Soviet
Robert McMahon The Vulnerable Giant: Debates of Insecurity in Nuclear Arsenal after 1991
the United States
Sarah Synder Transnational Human Rights Activism
William Walker The National Security State
Bernd Greiner The Long Life of the »Imperial Presidency«
Anja Mihr Human Rights Organizations: Amnesty International
as an Example
Sean N. Kalic »Framing the Discourse«: The Rhetoric of the War
on Terror
James Burnham Sedgwick International Law: The Development
of a Discipline
Bettina Greiner From Korea to Abu Ghraib: The Return of Torture
Philipp Gassert The Evolving New Eco-awareness
John Philipp Baesler The Power of the Polygraph in the
American Security System
Melanie Arndt Environmental Activism: Chernobyl in Germany
Rolf Hobson »Defense Intellectuals«: On the Career of Desk
Strategists
Stefanie van de Kerkhof The Use of Military Strategy in Economic
Planning
Berthold Vogel The »Social Security State«
Vojtech Mastny Enduring Security Architectures
Heonik Kwon Tracing the Cold War in the Global South
Dieter Krüger Security by Integration: On the Development
of the EU
Rüdiger Korff, Sascha Helbardt State Formation in Southeast Asia
Roy de Ruiter Farewell to the Cold War: The Example of the
Netherlands
Joachim Spanger State Failure: A Legacy of the Cold War
Klaus Naumann A Hard Transition: German Military and
Security Policy
Lorenz Lüthi China's Economic Miracle
Hartmut Quehl The Transformation of War Societies: Eritrea,
Kurdistan, and Nicaragua
Gerd Hankel Humanitarian Intervention: The Career of a Concept
Giorgio Franceschini The Nuclear Modernization of the USA
Bernd Greiner / Tim B. Müller / Claudia Weber (eds.)
Power and Intellect in the Cold War
»…a book worth reading, which offers useful material for instructors, detailed studies on
specific topics, and stimulating ideas for further research.« —Martin Deuerlein, H-Soz-u-Kult
Ideas make a difference, especially when the powerful— afraid that they are in danger of running out of ideas— lend intellectuals and experts their ear. The Cold War was a case in point:
an all-encompassing mobilization of intellectual resources to contribute to efforts to overcome one’s enemies in the global struggle for power, prestige, and influence. Among the
impacts of this process were the rise of theories of modernization and planning, the surge in
cybernetics and regional studies, and the development of game theory and other models for
conflict management.
Macht und Geist im
Kalten Krieg
544 pages, 155 x 230 mm
ISBN 978-3-86854-237-0
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Twenty-five respected historians reconstruct this history of the relationship between
power and intellect in the Cold War. Retracing developments in the metropolises of the East
and the West, they also analyze how knowledge was transferred to the periphery and how
intellectual resources from the periphery were siphoned off. Last but not least, the texts
discuss how the decades of putting knowledge and scholarship to work for politics continue
to leave their mark on today’s world.
Translated from English (individual chapters) by Felix Kurz
Bernd Greiner is a historian, director of the Research Unit: Theory and History of Violence since 1994 and professor
of history at the University of Hamburg; Tim B. Müller is a historian; like Claudia Weber, who is also a historian,
he is a fellow in the Research Unit: Theory and History of Violence at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research.
Bernd Greiner Power and Intellect in the Cold War: A Look
Backward and Ahead
Rebecca Lowen The Political-Academic Nexus in America
David C. Engerman The World War II Origins of Soviet Studies in
American Universities
John Krige Cold War Leadership and the Transnational
Co-Production of Knowledge
Ron Robin A Balance of Terror or of Error?
Philip Rocco Forging Cold War Policy Science at the RAND
Corporation
Kenneth Osgood The American Way of (Psychological) War
Sönke Kunkel American Knowledge, Postcolonial Modernity,
and Nation-Building in Nigeria in the Early 1960s
Moritz Feichtinger »Strategic Villages« in Malaya and Algeria
Alexei Kojewnikow The Cold-War Mobilization of Science in
the Soviet Union
Slava Gerovitch Cyberocracy or Cybureaucracy? Cybernetics
and the End of Utopia in the Soviet Union
Wladislaw M. Subok Soviet Experts on the West
Constantin Katsakioris The Soviet Model of Modernization and
the Education of African and Arab Elites
Peter C. Caldwell Socialist Economics and Expert Knowledge,
or Planning and Governing an Academic Discipline
Hunter Heyck Modernity and Social Change in American Social
Science
Michael A. Bernstein Transforming American Economics in the
Cold War Era
Rüdiger Graf The Politics of Petroknowledge in the Cold War
Andreas Wirsching Educational Discourses and Technologies
of the Social in the Cold War
Mario Keßler Futurology in Germany during the Cold War: 'Ossip
K. Flechtheim and His Eastern Critics
Paul Erickson Game Theory, Conflict Resolution, and the Politics
of Rationality in Cold War America
Holger Nehring »Peace through Peace Research?«
Fred Turner A Countercultural Aesthetic for Cold War Social
Engineering: Revisiting the Pepsi Pavilion at the World
Exhibition 1970
Doug Rossinow Rightist Internationalism and Conservative
Dissent from U.S. Cold War Strategy
Perrin Selcer UNESCO, World Citizenship, and the Cold War
Michael D. Gordin »True GRIT«: Rationality, Nuclear Disarmament, and Semantics
Stephen V. Bittner Soviet Dissidence, the Intelligentsia, and the
Cold War
Bernd Greiner / Christian Th. Müller / Dierk Walter (eds.)
Hot Wars in the Cold War
»[A]n important step towards a better understanding of the global aspects of the Cold War.«
—Bernd Stöver, H-Soz-u-Kult
Heiße Kriege im Kalten Krieg
514 pages, 155 x 230 mm
ISBN 978-3-936096-61-3
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Between 1945 and 1989, some 150 armed conflicts raged in the Third World. Most were
»proxy wars«, in which the bloc confrontation was played out without direct involvement of
the superpowers but consequences for the global balance of power. How these conflicts were
shaped by ideological and political confrontations, the heritage of colonial rule, global strategy, and regional conditions is assessed in this collection.
»Not the least of the merits of this volume is the fact that it lends a global dimension to historical-political research on
warfare in modernity. And it systematically explicates a hypothesis that points the way for future Cold War scholarship
… both the U.S. and the Soviet Union were almost constantly preoccupied with a ›credibility problem‹ ...« —Christoph
Cornelissen, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Bernd Greiner, Christian Th. Müller, and Dierk Walter are historians in the Research Unit: Theory and History of
Violence (Hamburg Institute for Social Research), which Greiner directs; they also lecture at the University of
Hamburg, Greiner as an adjunct professor.
Crises in the Cold War
• Special recommendation, Best Non-Fiction Book (NDR/SZ/Börsenblatt)
Krisen im Kalten Krieg
547 pages, 155 x 230 mm
ISBN 978-3-936096-95-8
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Recurring crises, acute political and military confrontations, were characteristic of the Cold
War. The notion of »stable peace« in the northern hemisphere neither accounts for the
readiness to take risks, nor explains why crises lead to the brink of war. How did crises escalate, how were they defused, how did domestic factors influence crisis management? What
options were available to allies and client states? In seventeen case studies, historians draw on
newly-available sources to discuss these and other issues that will stimulate debate.
»Thanks to their lucid analyses and the use of new sources, the authors … succeed in presenting profound insights into
international crises.« —Ulrich Lappenküper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Violence (Hamburg Institute for Social Research), which Greiner directs; they also lecture at the University of
Hamburg, Greiner as an adjunct professor.
Fear in the Cold War
»… nineteen authors analyze the history, sociology, and media psychology of fear between
1946 and 1989. Especially intriguing are the contributions from and about Eastern Europe.«
—Friedensmuseum Nürnberg, Newsletter
Angst im Kalten Krieg
526 pages,155 x 230 mm
ISBN 978-3-86854-213-4
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»… a pioneering volume … the first attempt to place Cold War fear at the very center of analysis rather than viewing it
as an epiphenomenon of larger socio-political processes … introduces a wealth of new empirical evidence … includes
some terrific and genuinely fresh (close) readings of high politics … a very important volume and a huge step forward
in Cold War research. Its importance extends not just to Cold War history proper, but to the history of the second half of
the 20th century more generally.« —Jan Plamper, H-Soz-u-Kult
Violence (Hamburg Institute for Social Research), which Greiner directs; they also lecture at the University of Hamburg, Greiner as an adjunct professor.
Bernd Greiner / Christian Th. Müller / Claudia Weber (eds.)
The Economics of the Cold War
»The Cold War wasn’t just a competition between two political systems, it was also a struggle
between two economic orders, as twenty-five economists and historians remind us in a
commendable collection … « —Thomas Speckmann, Die Welt
»This comprehensive volume on the economics of the Cold War offers a critical and impartial view of the US and the
Soviet Union and answers numerous questions. Moreover, its clear structure invites readers to focus on individual
chapters … « — Henry Bernhard, Deutschlandradio
Ökonomie im Kalten Krieg
528 pages, 155 x 230 mm
ISBN 978-3-86854-225-7
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Bernd Greiner heads the Research Unit: Theory and History of Violence at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research
and is a professor of history at the University of Hamburg; Christian Th. Müller, a historian, works on nineteenthand twentieth-century German military history; Claudia Weber is a fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social
Research and is currently studying Cold War political communication about war crimes and massacres.
Klaus Naumann
War as Text: The Year 1945 in the Cultural Memory
of the Press
»Naumann’s book can be considered an essential contribution to a history of memory
in the Federal Republic of Germany.« —Heidemarie Uhl, Österreichische Zeitschrift für
Politikwissenschaft
Der Krieg als Text: Das Jahr 1945
im kulturellen Gedächtnis der
Presse
353 pages, 139 x 210 mm
50 images
ISBN 978-3-930908-41-7
How the media portray commemorative dates is a valuable gauge of how a society reflects on
its relationship to war. This analysis of extensive material gleaned from the German press
throughout 1995— the fiftieth anniversary of numerous events associated with the end of
World War II— reveals much about German society’s emotional state and how it has dealt
with memory.
Klaus Naumann, a historian and researcher at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research.
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Klaus Naumann (ed.)
Postwar Germany
»The authors’ sensitive perspective … is appealing: rather than pronouncing ›truths‹ set in
stone they offer diverse approaches for discussion and interpretation.« —Beate Ihme-Tuchel,
IWK
Nachkrieg in Deutschland
576 pages, 155 x 230 mm
ISBN 978-3-930908-72-1
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A multidisciplinary collection that illuminates the ambivalent history of the two G
ermanys
after 1945: the story of highly successful economic and socio-political modernization is also
the story of a society marked by the effects of war and by deep-seated anxiety and uncertainty.
Contributors: Frank Biess, Stephan Braese, Micha Brumlik, Jörg Echternkamp, Heide Fehrenbach, Michael Geyer, Svenja
Goltermann, Elizabeth Heineman, Dagmar Herzog, Thomas Kühne, Jörg Lau, Robert G. Moeller, Regina Mühlhauser,
Klaus Naumann, Thomas W. Neumann, Vera Neumann, Uta G. Poiger, Franka Schneider, Michael Schwartz, Harald
Welzer
Klaus Naumann, historian and researcher at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research.
Maren Lorenz
Vandalism as an Everyday Phenomenon
»… in this slim volume Lorenz retraces the history of vandalism in a precise and highly
readable account. She corrects the notion that mass destruction of property by youths is
a phenomenon of modern society.« —Michael Jeismann, Die Zeit
Vandalismus als Alltags
phänomen
158 pages, 110 x 175 mm
ISBN 978-3-86854-204-2
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This analysis of the history of vandalism in Germany from the seventeenth century to reunification in 1989, which also cites examples from other eras and countries, demonstrates how
academic and popular debates reflect shifting normative assumptions, collective self-images,
and political crises.
»In this slim, elegantly argued volume … Lorenz examines a phenomenon that has always existed and has always been
subject to diverse interpretations … One can hardly praise Maren Lorenz’s succinct book enough for having dissected
these discursive mechanisms.« —Thomas Wörtche, Der Freitag
Maren Lorenz is a historian and lecturer at the University of Hamburg.
Maren Lorenz
Criminal Bodies - Disturbed Minds: Shaping Normed
Individuals in Forensic Medicine and Psychiatry in the
Enlightenment
»… to be welcomed as a contribution to a critical ›history of the body‹ and ›history of the
mind‹ that transcends the ›blind‹ adoption of prevalent assumptions … « —Udo Benzenhöfer,
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Kriminelle Körper - Gestörte
Gemüter: Die Normierung des
Individuums in Gerichtsmedizin
und Psychiatrie der Aufklärung
495 pages, 155 x 230 mm
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ISBN 978-3-930908-44-8
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Analysis of case histories published from 1706 to 1800 reveals the beginnings of German
forensic medicine and psychiatry and physicians’ impact as expert witnesses in legal proceedings. Judging a person’s capacity for military service, or imprisonment, their soundness of
mind or deviant sexual behavior and violent crime, physicians’ explanations reflected naturalized norms but also state-of-the-art medicine. How they contradicted or influenced popular discourses about reason and insanity, health and illness, offers new insights into how
perceptions of the body and mind were shaped.
Maren Lorenz is a historian and former researcher for the Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research
and Culture.
Hans-Martin Blitz
For Love of the Fatherland: The German Nation in the
Eighteenth Century
»In his knowledgeable study, Blitz analyzes German patriotism and national consciousness
in the eighteenth century and interprets them as precursors of the nationalistic discourse
of the twentieth century. Sheds new light on the age of humanism.« —Iring Fetscher,
Die Tageszeitung
Aus Liebe zum Vaterland:
Die deutsche Nation im
18. Jahrhundert
437 pages, 155 x 230 mm
ISBN 978-3-930908-56-1
Integrating sources and methods from historiography and literary studies, Blitz reconstructs
the discourse on German nationalism from its beginning in the eighteenth century. Thus,
he offers new perspectives on the interplay of aggressive and democratic elements and comes
to the unequivocal conclusion: modern nationalism, even in its earliest forms, is a doublededged sword.
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Hans-Martin Blitz is a historian; this book is based on his research at the University of Freiburg.
Jörg Nagler
National Minorities in Wartime: »Enemy Aliens« and the
American Home Front
in World War I
»With his study, Jörg Nagler has made a significant and entirely convincing contribution to the
history of society.« —Sönke Neitze, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Nationale Minoritäten im Krieg:
»Feindliche Ausländer« und die
amerikanische Heimatfront
während des E rsten Weltkriegs
758 pages, 155 x 230 mm
32 images, 20 tables, 2 graphs,
ISBN 978-3-930908-61-5
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When the United States declared war against Germany on 6 April 1917, life changed radically
for German-Americans, as they officially became »enemy aliens«. Without a unified home
front, so the American conviction, the military effort would fail. To combat those supposed
enemies a comprehensive plan was developed by the government and supported by patriotic
organizations and the denunciatory practice of individuals, marking a new phase in the
process that led to total war.
Jörg Nagler, historian and Americanist, is a professor of American history at the University of Jena.
Ulrich Bielefeld
Nation and Society: Self-images of the Nation
in Germany and France
»… offers an insightful, stimulating, and nuanced discussion of the concept of the nation.«
—Hartmut Kaeble, Süddeutsche Zeitung
Nation und Gesellschaft:
Selbstthematisierungen in
Deutschland und Frankreich
416 pages, 155 x 230 mm
ISBN 978-3-930908-83-7
Hardback, April 2003
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Since the French Revolution, modern societies have been perceived as self-created national
entities. Ulrich Bielefeld analyzes national societalization and how it relates to nations’ selfconceptions, focusing on France and Germany, classic examples of the nation-state. After
1918, national self-determination became an international norm that contrasted with the
decline of the concept of the nation. Today, the nation-state remains the recognized form of
political organization, while concepts of society and the nation diverge; the nation remains
an inherently ambivalent entity.
Ulrich Bielefeld, a sociologist, directs the Research Unit: Nation and Society at the Hamburg Institute for Social
Research.
Christian Geulen
Elective Affinities: Race Discourse and Nationalism
in the Late Nineteenth Century
»Geulen has retraced much more precisely than any other researcher to date the links
between nationalism and racism in Germany around 1900.« —Sönke Neitzel,
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Wahlverwandte: Rassendiskurs
und Nationalismus
im späten 19. Jahrhundert
411 pages, 155 x 230 mm
ISBN 978-3-930908-95-0
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Christian Geulen’s analysis of racial discourse from the late 19th century until today shows
how semantics, structure, and function of national self-images, of images of the other, and
of the preconceptions of racial theory developed. This reconstruction contrasts with the
prevalent assumption that racial discourse promotes essentialist perspectives on national
borders and identities and emphasizes the overriding role of racial discourse in defining
political identities in this period.
Christian Geulen is a professor of modern and contemporary history at the University of Koblenz.
Gerd Hankel
Limits to Killing in Today’s Wars
»Rather than just making appeals, Hankel offers concrete suggestions that are down-to-earth
… deals with abstract issues of international law but with numerous examples that make the
problems understandable for laypeople.« —Annette Wilmes, Deutschlandradio Kultur
Das Tötungsverbot im Krieg
131 pages, 110 x 175 mm
ISBN 978-3-86854-224-0
Hardback, January 2011
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Today’s wars differ fundamentally from those fought when the Hague and Geneva Conventions defined the limits of war. These codes of war fail to deal adequately with the impacts of
complex conflicts, especially with the growing number of civilians killed, further undermining acceptance of international interventions and agreements. Hankel analyzes key areas in
which revisions are urgently needed and outlines how they can be implemented internationally.
»… Hankel’s small memorandum is a highly topical text.« —Alexandra Kemmerer, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Gerd Hankel is a scholar of legal affairs with the Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and
Culture. His work centers on war crimes, mass violence, and national and international law.
Gerd Hankel (ed.)
Power and Justice: International Law and
International Criminal Law in the 21st Century
»… outstanding among recent books on these issues … Whether expert or layperson—
whoever is interested in the … debate about the challenges of international law … is at the
right address...« —Thomas Hummitzsch, Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft
Die Macht und das Recht:
Völkerecht und Völkerstrafrecht
am Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts
462 pages, 145 x 210 mm
ISBN 978-3-936096-83-5
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»… the Hamburg Institute for Social Research has become one of the most stimulating places in Germany for reflecting
on and discussing issues of justice and power beyond disciplinary borders. Transdisciplinary friction is unavoidable. But
the dialogue continues, and the credit is due in part to … Gerd Hankel. As the editor of this volume, he has presented
mandatory reading for all those interested in current issues in—and the future of—international law« —Alexandra
Kemmerer, Süddeutsche Zeitung
Contributors: Claudia Cárdenas Aravena, Monique Chemillier-Gendreau, Gerd Hankel, Claus Kreß, Herfried Münkler,
Volker Nerlich, Frank Neubacher, Mary Ellen O’Connell, William A. Schabas, Anja Seibert-Fohr, Gerhard Stuby, Gerhard
Werle
Culture.
Gerd Hankel
The Leipziger Trials: German War Crimes and Their Legal Consequences
after World War II
• Legal Book of the Year 2003, journal Neue Juristische Wochenschrift
Rather than themselves prosecuting Germans accused of war crimes in WWI, the Allies
agreed to trials before the Reichsgericht in Leipzig. This first comprehensive and highly readable assessment of the trials shows how their conduct reinforced Germany’s interpretations
of international treaties on treatment of civilians, partisans, or POWs, paving the way for the
Wehrmacht's massive war crimes in World War II.
Die Leipziger Prozesse:
Deutsche Kriegsverbrechen
und ihre strafrechtliche
Verfolgung nach dem Ersten
Weltkrieg
550 pages, 155 x 230 mm
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ISBN 978-3-930908-85-1
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Letters)
»[A] pioneering study, and an essential monograph for anyone working on the many important issues of war crimes
and the laws of war.« —Alan Kramer, Trinity College
»… an excellent analysis of [this] first and historically neglected episode … an excellent command of the complex and
controversial historiographical issues … a strong contribution … to the scholarship of interwar Germany as well as for
those interested in the broader history of international law and the prosecution of war crimes.« —Jeffrey R. Smith, German Studies Review
»… should be a benchmark for all those who are interested in the history of the Weimar Republic and, indeed, the
history of Germany.« —Marcel Spivak, Francia
»… compulsory reading for anyone wishing to analyze part of the historical reasons for the reluctance of the international community to get serious about the idea of an international criminal court.« —Michael Bohlander, International
Criminal Law Review
»… exhaustive and unprecedented use of all the archival documents … negotiates questions about the uniqueness of
the German case and the connections between the war crimes of WWI and WWII with a caution and deftness that
strengthen his conclusions …« —David Grimm Choberka, H-Net Reviews
Culture.
Trust and Violence: An Essay on a Modern Relationship
• Shortlisted for the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2008, category non-fiction / essay
• Best Historical Book 2008, historical journal Damals, category »Food for Thought«
• Second place, Best Non-Fiction Book (Börsenblatt/Buchjournal/NDR/SZ)
Vertrauen und Gewalt:
Versuch über eine besondere
Konstellation der Moderne
576 pages, 145 x 210 mm
ISBN 978-3-936096-89-7
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World English (Princeton University Press), French (Éditions Gallimard), Hungarian (Atlantisz
Könyvkiadó), Polish (Wydawnictwo Poznanskie), Spanish (Acantilado)
How can modernity’s goal of curtailing violence, demanding it be justified, and ostracizing
its perpetrators coexist with horrific mass violence? Reemtsma probes trust and its paradoxical relationship to violence in this synthesis of his previous work on the Nazi regime, on
leftist terrorism, torture, and insights gleaned from world literature. To ask why loving fathers become mass murderers is, he argues, an expression of modernity’s illusions about violence. Trust and Violence distinguishes three forms of violence based on their relationships
to the body and to power and marks autotelic violence as a special challenge to the trust on
which modernity is based, because it lacks a discernable cause. Blending historical and political analysis, philosophical reflection, sociological theory, and literary interpretations from
Shakespeare to Schiller to Dostoevsky, Reemtsma contends that trust and realism are essential, if the mechanisms that can generate barbarity almost overnight are to be held in check.
»It is hard to imagine a more ambitious undertaking. That it has succeeded … is due to a bold blending of sociological
concepts and interpretive skills from literary studies … For those who aim to address the question of violence intelligently
in the coming years, there will be no getting around this book.« —Jens Bisky, Süddeutsche Zeitung
»… a study with so much potential for theories of society that social science will be unable to absorb it without rethinking itself …« —Harald Welzer, Essen
»Reemtsma’s theoretical outline matures to bear copious fruits, thanks to his poised transitions from one field of scholarship to another. Unfettered by obligations to specific schools of thought, he becomes an expert on violence and interprets contradictory phenomena with a cool, analytical eye … a significant contribution on violence in modernity.«
—Harry Nutt, Frankfurter Rundschau
»… takes up where the »Dialectic of Enlightenment« left off. Anyone who intends to reflect on modernity must read it.«
—Claus Leggewie, Essen
Jan Philipp Reemtsma is the founder and director of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and a professor of
German literature at the University of Hamburg.
Torture in Constitutional States?
»Jan Philipp Reemtsma observes our society with great precision. He has chosen the
right moment to write a lucid book that challenges the erosion of fundamental legal norms.«
—Peter Wien, arte
Folter im Rechtsstaat?
154 pages, 110 x 175 mm
ISBN 978-3-936096-55-2
Hardback, May 2005
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Jan Philipp Reemtsma argues that modern societies’ unambiguous and unequivocal rejection
of torture cannot be abandoned without severely damaging and endangering our legal tradition.
»Those who want to understand why a ›transformation … of German attitudes on legal issues‹ is perhaps taking place
before our eyes will gain much from reading this book.« —Horst Meier, Literaturen
Jan Philipp Reemtsma is founder and director of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and the Arno Schmidt
Foundation and a professor of German literature at the University of Hamburg.
Luz Arce
The Inferno: A Story of Terror and Survival
in Chile
»The Inferno is a shattering book: a testimony, a life report, a report on survival.
A document of contemporary history that explodes the boundaries of the nation.«
—Rosemarie Bollinger, Deutschlandfunk
Die Hölle: Eine Frau im
chilenischen Geheimdienst
406 pages, 139 x 210 mm
ISBN 978-3-930908-65-3
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Press), French (Les petits matins),
World Spanish (Planeta Chilena)
A member of Salvador Allende’s personal guard unit, Luz Arce went underground after the
putsch on 11 September 1973, was arrested a few months later and tortured by the new regime’s secret police. Hoping to save her brother, she agreed to cooperate and worked for five
years for the Chilean secret services. Arce later testified before the Chilean truth and reconciliation commission, facing those who had been her torturers and then her bosses. A portrayal of life in a repressive apparatus, a self-analysis of the struggle to regain one’s identity,
and an account of coming to terms with a brutal dictatorship. Translated from Spanish by
Astrid Schmitt-Böhringer
Luz Arce studied physical education at the Universidad de Chile and has worked as a teacher.
Klaus Naumann
The Blind Mirror: Germany and the War of Transformation in Afghanistan
·»... one of the most important, densely argued, and lucid books on the security policy
debate in this country since the end of the East-West conflict.« — Gerhard Kümmel,
Bundeswehr Center for Military History and Social Sciences, Potsdam
Der blinde Spiegel:
Deutschland im afghanischen
Transformationskrieg
203 pages, 140 x 215 mm
ISBN 978-3-86854-264-6
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The mirror image that the Afghanistan mission reflects back to Germany is highly problematic; it highlights the dissonances, deficits, and dilemmas of the country’s current security
and defense policies. This assessment of the ten-year-old German mission reveals an ambivalent panorama: enormous expenditures versus painful human losses and material waste;
individual commitment on one side, business-as-usual on the other; substantial progress
juxtaposed with meager results. Despite the obvious shortcomings of Germany’s policies on
international interventions, a critical public analysis has not yet been undertaken.
Afghanistan shows that the Bundeswehr faces tasks for which it is inadequately prepared,
in material as well as cognitive terms. Moreover, German international missions are shaped
by what is at best a rudimentary concept of the statemanship that should be their foundation—a deficit that reveals the institutional crisis of German security policy.
No less apparent are the consequences for German society, as the public is forced to recognize and deal with the impacts: the loss of human lives, traumatized veterans, long-term
military commitments and spending for an engagement that has not reduced the threat of
international terrorism.
A historian who has studied the West German Bundeswehr from the controversies over
its creation in the 1950s to the conflicted acceptance of its participation in out-of-area interventions, Naumann offers more than incisive critique. He discusses concrete steps towards
implementing the overdue changes on all levels that will ensure that Germany will fulfill its
role in international peacekeeping. He calls on the federal government, parliament, and the
armed forces to transform their communication on foreign policy and security issues—with
each other as well as the public. The goal must be to implement improvements in the tools
of political leadership, in the parliament’s policy-making options, in the military’s guiding
principles, and in how political and military leader engage with the public on these issues.
Klaus Naumann is a historian and research fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. Among his
previous books published by Hamburger Edition are a study on the leadership of the West German armed forces
and a collection on the politics of memory in post-1945 German society.
Klaus Naumann
Mission without a Goal?
Why the Military Needs Politics
Second place, Best Non-Fiction Book (Börsenblatt/Buchjournal/NDR/SZ)
Einsatz ohne Ziel? –
Die Politikbedürftigkeit
des Militärischen
138 pages, 110 x175 mm
ISBN 978-3-936096-98-9
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A factual and highly-readable analysis of why Germany’s political class has failed to come to
terms with the transition from a policy of »defense« to one aimed at achieving »security«. It
outlines how political and military structures must be re-aligned and citizens obliged to
contribute to a secure future.
»This book is not a cool survey of military policy and strategic thought in Germany, it is a wake-up call … Whoever has
the slightest sense of what goes on in Berlin will agree with Naumann’s most important critique … « —Herfried Münkler,
Die Welt
»This book is so handy that it will fit into the pocket of every parliamentarian. And that is exactly where it should be …
succeed[s] in doing something that seldom occurs with political books: Naumann has not only analyzed a problem
precisely, he has supplied a roadmap for dealing with it.« —Thomas Speckmann, Die Zeit
Klaus Naumann is a historian at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research; who works on the politics of memory
and relations between society and the military.
Klaus Naumann
Generals under Democracy: A Generational Study of the
Bundeswehr’s Elite
»This publication is a well-grounded analysis of the various generations of the Bundeswehr
elite, of the experience that left its mark on them, and of their intellectual engagement
with democracy; it is worthwhile reading, not only for soldiers.« —Militärgeschichte
Generale in der Demokratie:
Generationsgeschlichtliche
Studien zur Bundeswehrelite
382 pages, 155 x 230 mm
ISBN 978-3-936096 76-7
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Using previously neglected sources, re-interpretations, and his own biographical interviews,
Naumann dismantles stereotypes about West Germany’s post-1945 military elite. This group
portrait elucidates how military men »went democratic« and why the contradictions between
military and civilian life now pose new challenges.
»[T]his study offers a wealth of interesting details about the Bundeswehr elite and takes a first step towards formulating
a comparison of its cohorts that is grounded in the history of generations.« —Reiner Pommerin, Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung
Klaus Naumann is a historian at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research; who works on the politics of memory
and relations between society and the military.
Dierk Walter
Between Jungle Wars and Atomic Bombs:
British Visions of Future Wars, 1945– 1971
»… an impressive account of the political and military decline of the British Empire, based
on analysis of military journals … There is much to be found in his book that is valid beyond
the period considered«. —Reinhard Scholen, Bundespolizeigewerkschaft
Zwischen Dschungelkrieg und
Atombombe: Britische Visionen
vom Krieg der Zukunft 1945–1971
520 pages, 145 x 210 mm
ISBN 978-3-86854-202-8
This analysis of Britain’s military transition enhances our understanding of the complexities
of the Cold War, offers lessons for other armies facing change and contradictory tasks, and
raises issues about today’s wars that use »anti-insurgency strategies« and combat terror.
Dierk Walter, a historian at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, also lectures at the University of Bern,
Switzerland, and the University of Hamburg.
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Thoralf Klein / Frank Schumacher (eds.)
Colonial Wars: Military Force
in the Age of Imperialism
First place, category Colonialism, Historical Book 2007, historical journal DAMALS
Kolonialkriege: Militärische
Gewalt im Zeichen des
Imperialismus
369 pages, 155 x 230 mm
ISBN 978-3-936096-70-5
hardback, October 2006
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Case studies of colonial warfare reflect the development of military violence in the age of
imperialism, focusing on what lead to the conflicts; how military strategies and operations
unfolded; the cultural background, discourse, and use of language; and how memories of
these conflicts have been shaped.
»… a volume with dense content and … sophisticated arguments that will enhance debates about the role of violence
and war in colonial and metropolitan contexts and more general discussion about the status—and the necessity—of
extra-European history and opportunities for interdisciplinary cooperation.« —Marc Frey, H-Soz-u-Kult
Contributors: Giulia Brogini Künzi, Cord Eberspächer, Michael Hochgeschwender, Thoralf Klein, Susanne Kuß, Christoph
Marx, Daniel Mollenhauer, Thomas Morlang, Ulrich Mücke, Frank Schumacher, Dierk Walter, Reinhard Zöllner
Thoralf Klein, scholar of Chinese history, Department of East Asian History, University of Erfurt; Frank Schumacher,
historian, Department of North American History, University of Erfurt.
Hans-C. Graf Sponeck
A Different Kind of War: The UN Sanctions Regime in Iraq
»Hans-C. Graf Sponeck, the former head of the UN program ›Oil for Food‹, takes stock of his
work in Iran, with devastating conclusions.« —Frankfurter Rundschau
Ein anderer Krieg:
Das Sanktionsregime der UNO
im Irak
365 pages, 155 x 230 mm
ISBN 978-3-936096-56-9
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(Berghahn Boks), Arabic (Center
for Arab Unity Studies)
Drawing on internal UN documents and talks with Iraqi officials and politicians (including
Saddam Hussein), with UN decision-makers (including Kofi Annan), and with Iraqi citizens, Sponeck shows how the economic sanctions affected daily life and asks who benefited
from the program. Sponeck outlines political options for a UN Iraq policy that would meet
standards of humanitarian action. His proposals and critique of UN policies highlight the
need for a comprehensive reform of the organization based on its role in today’s most controversial international conflict.
Hans-C. Graf Sponeck worked for the UN for more than thirty years, including a term as UN assistant secretary
general and is now an international consultant.
Taner Akçam
Armenia and the Genocide: The Istanbul Trials and
the Turkish National Movement
»Even today, the subject remains taboo in Turkey. This publication and commentary on
the trial records makes Taner Akçam the first historian to shed light on this suppressed chapter
of Turkish history.« —Florian Hildebrand, Bayerischer Rundfunk
Armenien und der Völkermord:
Die Istanbuler Prozesse und
die türkische Nationalbewegung
430 pages, 139 x 210 mm
ISBN 978-3-930908-99-8
New Paperback, September 2004
In 1915, a large part of the Armenian population of Turkey perished as the direct or indirect
result of a brutal massacre organized by Turkish authorities. Five years later, some of the
perpetrators were put on trial in Istanbul. The records of these trials reveal how this genocide
was planned and carried out.
Taner Akçam, sociologist and historian, is a professor in the History Department, University of Minnesota.
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Martin Schaad
From Free Spirit to Professional Revolutionary:
The Fabulous Confessions of Alfred Kurella
No one is born a Stalinist, so how is a Stalinist made?
Vom Freigesist zum Berufs
revolutionär. Die fabelhaften
Bekenntnisse des Alfred Kurella
190 pages, 140 x 215 mm
ISBN 978-3-86854-275-2
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One of the disturbing questions raised by the Stalinist purges was this: why did many who
were themselves victims carry on in the spirit of the dictator, long after his death in 1953 and
the ensuing shifts in Soviet policy? Alfred Kurella (1895-1975) is a case in point. Arriving in
Moscow in 1934 as a young writer and a cadre in the German Communist youth movement,
he remained in the USSR for twenty years, witnessing first hand the toll taken by the reign
of terror among Soviet citizens and exiles alike, including the death of his younger brother.
Returning to East Germany in 1954, he became one of the most influential high-level functionaries in cultural politics—and as an unrelenting hardliner destroyed the careers, if not
lives, of those he judged unworthy of being writers or artists under the new order.
Kurella, offspring of a bourgeois-intellectual family, enthusiastically joined the Wandervogel, the budding German youth movement that propagated a back-to-nature lifestyle,
sexual liberation, and educational reforms. Following military service in World War I, the
writer and artist became a promising young Communist cadre and then the personal secretary of Comintern leader Georgi Dimitrov. And yet at least until the early 1930s, he openly
championed positions that ran counter to the party line and maintained contacts with Social
Democrats or Trotzkyists like Diego Rivera, reaping no more than reprimands. But in 1935,
shortly after the beginning of the Great Terror, Kurella was denounced as a »double-dealer«,
losing his position and the support of his mentor Dimitrov.
In a climate shaped by denunciation, Bolshevist self-criticism and confessions, schematic
categories of foe and friend, and acts of submission and subordination the writer underwent
a fundamental transformation. Schaad examines his life as well as his texts, in particular the
novel Die Gronauer Akten, in effect the cadre’s »petition for political rehabilitation«, to reconstruct this metamorphosis. Ultimately, Kurella was rehabilitated at the price of renouncing his past and negating personal judgment: »Die Partei hat immer recht« (The party is always right).
Stalinism as such may today be a marginal phenomenon, but Shaad argues that psychological processes like those played out during the purges have not disappeared. They emerge
in systems of power built on the conviction that individuals can and must be molded to
conform to politically or religiously defined models, and that this task is reserved for a small
elite.
Martin Schaad is deputy director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam. After studying in Scotland he completed his
doctorate in history at St. Antony's College, Oxford. He is the author of Bullying Bonn: Anglo-German Diplomacy
on European Integration, 1955-61 (2000) and ›Dann geh doch rüber‹. Über die Mauer in den Osten (2009).
Reinhard Müller
Herbert Wehner—Moscow, 1937
»A historian from Hamburg uncovered the key document: in persecuting German emigrants
in 1937, the Soviet secret service relied on reports from Herbert Wehner.« —Der Spiegel
Herbert Wehner –
Moskau 1937
570 pages, 155 x 230 mm
17 images
ISBN 978-3-930908-82-0
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Herbert Wehner, post-1945 parliamentary head of the German Social Democrats, was reticent about his Moscower exile (1937-1941) while a candidate for the German Communist
Party’s Politburo. Müller’s research debunks the myth of Wehner as a victim of Stalinist terror, a partisan, and a helper of persecuted comrades: in fact, he was an informant for Stalin’s
secret police.
»For the first time in book form, the Moscow period of the architect of the modern German Social Democratic Party has
been studied and elucidated in all its details. A gripping read.« —Schweizerzeit
Reinhard Müller was a historian on the staff of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research; his research focuses on
Stalinist terror and repression
Reinhard Müller
Human Trap Moscow: Exile and Stalinist Persecution
»Müller’s Menschenfalle Moskau is an important, well-documented book. It extends our
knowledge of Stalinist terror and offers new insights.« —Hermann Weber, Die Zeit
Menschenfalle Moskau: Exil
und stalinistische Verfolgung
501 pages, 155 x 230 mm
14 images
ISBN 978-3-930908-71-4
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In the 1930s, Stalin’s secret police created the myth of a »counterrevolutionary, terroristTrotskyite organization«, claiming that seventy German immigrants to Moscow were members. Intense study of »cadre files« and NKVD records underpins this account of these exiles
caught in the »human trap« and reveals the inner workings of Stalinist terror.
»… offers impressive insights into the structures of the complex bureaucracy of persecution of the NKVD, the Comintern
and the KPD, and reveals how Stalinist terror functioned.« —Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaften
Reinhard Müller was a historian on the staff of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research; his research focuses on
Stalinist terror and repression.
Matthias Koenig / Jean-Paul Willaime (eds.)
Controversies over Religion in Germany
and France
»… demonstrate a high level of expertise and mutual engagement, the result of a common
conceptual base … Armed with astute perceptions, the authors reveal the divergent background of controversies in the two countries ...« —Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Religionskontroversen in
Deutschland und Frankreich
400 pages, 145 x 210 mm
ISBN 978-3-936096-96-5
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Franco-German collaborators assess discourse on religion in sociology and the impact on
today’s issues: »de-churching«, schools and religious plurality, debates on headscarves and
crucifixes. These new perspectives transcend stereotypes to mark paths for study beyond
European borders.
Contributors: Jean Baubérot, Ulrich Bielefeld, Olivier Bobineau, Claire de Galembert, Alois Hahn, Matthias Koenig,
Astrid Reuter, Rolf Schieder, Nikola Tietze, Sylvie Toscer-Angot, Hartmann Tyrell, Patrick Watier, Jean-Paul Willaime
Matthias Koenig, professor of sociology. University of Göttingen; Jean-Paul Williame, professor of the history and
sociology of Protestantism, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Paris
Nikola Tietze
Islamic Identities: Forms of Muslim Religiosity
of Young Men in Germany and France
Norbert Elias (»Amalfi«) Prize 2003 for an outstanding first book by a young European
researcher in the social sciences
Islamische Identitäten: Formen
muslimischer Religiosität junger
Männer in Deutschland und
Frankreich
277 pages, 155 x 230 mm
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This study of religion in the lives of young Muslim men in France and Germany shows differences and similarities in their self-perceptions and in perceptions of the world; a sensitive,
often surprising account of the complex and varied ways religion plays a role in their lives.
»A brillant study by Nikola Tietze.« —Mark Terkessidis, Die Tageszeitung
»… a survey of current discussions in social science theory and the sociology of religion in France and a wealth of wellprepared comparative material about Islam on both sides of the Rhine.« —Schirin Amir-Moazami, Matthias König,
Soziologische Revue
Translated from French by Ilse Utz.
Nikola Tietze, a sociologist with the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, also teaches at universities in France
and Germany.
Ulrike Jureit / Michael Wildt (eds.)
Generations: On the Relevance of a Fundamental
Concept in Research
»… a handbook for further reflection and engagement … Thanks to the inspiring scope of
themes, the originality and impressive quality of the contributions … an essential resource for
scholarly discussion.« —Ulrike Schulz, Die Berliner Literaturkritik
Generationen: Zur Relevanz
eines wissenschaftlichen Grundbegriffs
354 pages, 155 x 230 mm
ISBN 978-3-936096-58-3
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This volume scrutinizes— from the perspectives of history, cultural studies, sociology, and
media studies— the concept of the generation and its significance for interpreting history
and social interaction.
Contributors: Christina Benninghaus, Heinz Bude, Christina von Hodenberg, Ulrike Jureit, Heinz Dieter Kittsteiner,
Habbo Knoch, Eva Krejci, Kurt Lüscher, M. Rainer Lepsius, Kaspar Maase, Mark Roseman, Sigrid Weigel, Michael Wildt
Ulrike Jureit, historian and fellow with the Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and Culture;
Michael Wildt, professor of history at Humboldt University Berlin.
Manfred Hettling / Bernd Ulrich (eds.)
The Bourgeoisie in Post-1945 Germany
»… a substantial contribution to today’s political and scholarly debate … shows convincingly
that the concepts [Bürgertum and Bürgerlichkeit] are indeed useful in analyzing the Federal
Republic of Germany and even the GDR.« —Werner Bührer, Süddeutsche Zeitung
Bürgertum nach 1945
438 pages, 155 x 230 mm
ISBN 978-3-936096-50-7
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These historical, sociological, and autobiographical studies explore the enduring elements
of bourgeois life and politics in post-1945 German and show how bourgeois society’s political
model survived, influenced West Germany, and was itself transformed. It enhances our
understanding of the other, eastern post-war German state and sheds new light on neo-liberalism.
Contributors: Ulrich Bielefeld, Heinz Bude, Eckart Conze, Thomas Großbölting, Reinhart K oselleck, Wolfgang Kraushaar,
Kai Arne Linnemann, Bedrich Löwenstein, Burkart Lutz, Josef Mooser, Klaus Naumann, Bernd Ulrich, Michael Wildt,
Günter Wirth
Manfred Hettling, professor of modern and contemporary history at Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg;
Bernd Ulrich, historian, former fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research.
Andreas Elter
Campaign Rally or Blog? German Election Campaigns in
the Digital Age
»This slim volume is a stimulating source of material on issues that are worth more thought
and debate, as well as blogging and twittering.« —Alexandra Kemmerer, Deutschlandfunk
Bierzelt oder Blog?
Wahlkampf im digitalen
Zeitalter
139 pages, 110 x 175 mm
ISBN 978-3-86854-216-5
»… analyses like this are sorely needed. Not only as an introduction to new dimensions of democratic practice. Elter’s
critical supervision of digital activities by political parties and their representatives shows that neither the media nor the
political landscape in Germany is comparable to that of their American paragon Obama. And it demonstrates that there
is no reason to view the rules of the game and functions of political interactions in virtual space differently than in real
life.« — Sabine Fröhlich, SWF Forum Buch
Andreas Elter is a historian and media specialist and professor at Macromedia University for Media and
Communication, Cologne.
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Maria S. Rerrich
At Home in the Whole World: Cosmobile Cleaning
Women in Private Households
»Maria S. Rerrich has re-formulated the issue of domestic labor for the twenty-first century.«
—Johan Schloemann, Süddeutsche Zeitung
Die ganze Welt zu Hause:
Cosmobile Putzfrauen in
privaten Haushalten
168 pages, 139 x 210 mm
2 graphs, 9 images
ISBN 978-3-936096 67-5
Maria Rerrich examines how illegal and often highly qualified immigrants live as domestic
employees in Germany, revealing a new division of labor based on gender, nationality and
social status.
»In contrast to the helpless disputes in which we used to talk to death the links between global and household justice,
Rerrich’s documentation succeeds in capturing the affluency gap in the world and the power gap at home in a single
paradoxical image of femininity: the ›cosmobile cleaning woman‹.« —Bettina Engels, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Maria S. Rerrich is a professor of sociology at Munich University of Applied Sciences.
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Andreas Klärner
Between Militancy and the Middle Class:
The Self-Understanding and Practices of the
Extreme Right
»This is original, first-hand research. Klärner has entered the lion’s cave and analyzed the
rightwing extremist movement.« —Eckhard Jesse, Die Welt
Zwischen Militanz und
Bürgerlichkeit:
Selbstverständnis und Praxis
der e xtremen Rechten
348 pages, 145 x 210 mm
ISBN 978-3-936096-93-4
»Social scientists seldom venture so far from libraries and seminar rooms and zoom in as closely on the focus of their
research as Andreas Klärner has. Using an ethnologist’s methods, the sociologist from Rostock observed in meticulous
detail right-wing extremists in an eastern German university town … The result is a gratifyingly unconventional local
study.« —Astrid Geisler, Die Tageszeitung
Andreas Klärner is a sociologist at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, and was formerly
at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research.
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Andreas Klärner / Michael Kohlstruck (eds.)
Modern Right-wing Extremism in Germany
»A new youth subculture celebrates fashionable Neo-Nazism … The public must take notice,
especially in schools … That is where this book should be, for teachers and students. And it
should be on the desks of parliamentarians.« —Norbert Schreiber, Hessischer Rundfunk
Moderner Rechtsextremismus
in Deutschland
344 pages, 155 x 230 mm
ISBN 978-3-936096-62-0
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»The editors, whose excellent introduction assesses the trends in research, warn that an over-extended concept of
extremism should not be instrumentalized for day-to-day politics … The contributions argue soberly and without
agitation … In a nutshell: they offer political literature with considerable potential for enlightening readers.«
—Horst Meier, Deutschlandfunk
Contributors: Uta Döring, Rainer Erb, Henning Flad, Oliver Geden, Andreas Klärner, Jana Klemm, Sonja Kock, Michaela
Kötting, Michael Kohlstruck, Anna Verena Münch, Rainer Strobl, Fabian Virchow, Christine Wiezorek, Stefanie Würtz
Andreas Klärner, sociologist, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Michael Kohlstruck, political scientist, Center for Research on Anti-Semitism, Technical University Berlin.
Berthold Vogel
Prosperity Conflicts: Social Issues from the
Center of Society
»… demonstrates … most impressively the extent to which today’s center has developed away
from what used to be referred to as ›equalized middle class society‹.« —Reinhard Scholzen,
Bundespolizeigewerkschaft
Wohlstandskonflikte:
Soziale Fragen, die aus der Mitte
kommen
348 pages, 145 x 210 mm
ISBN 978-3-86854-200-4
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Vogel shows why, in Germany’s recently transformed welfare state, social conflicts ignite over
status, the »right« to prosperity, and demands on the state to secure both. His discussion of
empirical research on inequality at work or temporary jobs shows that »precariousness« has
reached the center of society.
»For Vogel, merely referring to exclusion and inclusion, belonging and marginalization is too simplistic … ›Vulnerability‹
is his keyword. The center of society feels threatened by forces upon which it has little influence.« —Stephan Speicher,
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Berthold Vogel, a sociologist, is a project director at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and teaches
sociology at the Universities of St. Gallen and Kassel.
Berthold Vogel
Why Society Needs the State
»… knowledgeable and well thought-out … and helps to regain the political; that is, it
highlights the (positive) options for government action.« —Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft
Die Staatsbedürftigkeit
der Gesellschaft
132 pages, 110 x 175 mm
ISBN 978-3-936096 77-4
Social inequality is back on the public agenda. Despite recent changes in the institutional
architecture, financial framework, and normative influence of government, the welfare state
is still the key to creating, structuring, or alleviating inequality. Vogel a rgues that society
needs the state, especially with social inequality on the rise, and calls for a renewed appreciation of the art of political administration.
Berthold Vogel, a sociologist, is a project director at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and teaches sociology at the Universities of St. Gallen and Kassel.
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Heinz Bude / Andreas Willisch (eds.)
The Problem of Exclusion: Marginalized, Expendable,
Superfluous
»… [links] structural changes on the job market and in the welfare state … to consciousness
about everyday life and status issues … a fundamental study of the social transformations that
have been emerging for the last fifteen years.« —Angela Gutzeit, Frankfurter Rundschau
Das Problem der Exklusion:
Ausgegrenzte, Entbehrliche,
Überflüssige
394 pages, 155 x 230 mm
ISBN 978-3-936096 69-9
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Social inequality has become a question of in and out rather than up or down; money alone
does not determine whether people can participate in society. These texts explore the many
forms of systematic marginalization, functional isolation, and superfluous existence referred
to as social exclusion.
Heinz Bude, sociologist, is head of the Research Unit: Society of the FR of Germany, Hamburg Institute for Social
Research and professor of macro-sociology, University of Kassel; Andreas Willisch, sociologist, is head of the
Thünen Institute for Regional Development.
Heinz Bude
The Ironic Nation
Third place, Best Non-fiction Book (Börsenblatt / Buchjournal / NDR/SZ)
Now that the post-1945 Germany is history, what has been lost with its passing? Heinz Bude
reassesses notions about (West-) German society that have been unquestioned tenets in the
social sciences and identifies issues for sociology to address in the years ahead.
Die ironische Nation
187 pages, 139 x 210 mm
ISBN 978-3-930908-47-9
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»… highly readable and also gratifyingly free of sociological jargon. For students and others as well, this will be a
useful volume with numerous insights on familiar sociological problems as well as more recent sociological debates.«
—Martin Osterland, Soziologische Revue
Heinz Bude, a sociologist, heads the Research Unit: Society of the Federal Republic of Germany, Hamburg Institute
for Social Research, and is a professor for macrosociology, University of Kassel.
Heinz Bude / Bernd Greiner (eds.)
Connections with the West: America in the
Federal Republic
»›Westbindungen‹ … a synonym for complex state and social links that changed life in Germany and Europe after World War II … Anyone who would like to learn more about what is
behind these developments should read this well-done volume.« —Zeitschrift für Geschichte
der Europäischen Integration
Westbindungen: Amerika in der
Bundesrepublik
358 pages, 155 x 230 mm
ISBN 978-3-930908-50-9
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Without US influence, West German history would have taken a different course. A wideranging collection analyzes German political culture, »Americanized« businesss and consumers, the West German constitution and the armed forces, literature, and films to reveal the
truth of this assertion.
Heinz Bude, sociologist, and head of the Research Unit: Society of the Federal Republic of Germany, Hamburg Institute for Social Research and professor of macro-sociology, University of Kassel; Bernd Greiner, historian and
head of the Research Unit: Theory and History of Violence, Hamburg Institute for Social Research, and professor in
the Department of History, University of Hamburg.
Jens Hacke
The Federal Republic of Germany as an Idea:
Reflections on the Need to Justify a Political Order
»With his smoothly written essays, Hacke takes up political debates on the history of the
German Federal Republic … This slim volume offers a fascinating read« —Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft
Die Bundesrepublik als Idee:
Zur Legitimationsbedürftigkeit
politischer Ordnung
129 pages, 110 x 175 mm
ISBN 978-3-86854-241-1
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West Germany’s success story and its narrative of identity were long perceived as mere byproducts of its prospering economy; the post-1945 republic has even been called the »country
without an idea«. Hacke’s analysis offers an overdue revision. The economic boom fostered
not only a stable social order but also specific political ideas, while protest movements triggered open-ended political debates.
»… sets a noteworthy and strong accent … For Hacke has indeed understood that ideas make policies.« —Thomas Meyer,
Frankfurter Rundschau
Jens Hacke is a political scientist at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and lecturer at the Institute for Political Science, University of Hamburg.
Wolfgang Kraushaar
Verena Becker and German National Security Authorities
»… the inconsistencies and grounds for suspicion compiled by Kraushaar are enough
to plague federal prosecutors with new nightmares about an old case.«
—Michael Sontheimer, Der Spiegel
Verena Becker und der
Verfassungsschutz
205 pages, 145 x 210 mm
ISBN 978-3-86854-227-1
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»If these suspicions are true, then this is the stuff that scandals are made of: did Becker, presumably involved in the
Buback assassination, work for the security service at the same time? … Kraushaar is one of the most renowned researchers who study the RAF … His contention: systematic efforts have been made to prevent the truth about the
murder of Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback in 1977 from being revealed.« —titel thesen temperamente
»Kraushaar, one of the country’s most renowned social scientists, has portrayed the terrorist as a young woman. Without Becker’s testimony, many issues remain obscure. But with the extensive archives and the efficient support of the
Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Kraushaar has written a convincing account of Becker’s career as an informant or
undercover agent of the Verfassungsschutz.« —Nils Minkmar, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
»Kraushaar’s book about Verena Becker is a book about an outrageous state scandal.« —Christian Bommarius
Wolfgang Kraushaar (ed.)
The RAF and Left Terrorism
Tenth place, Best Non-fiction Book (Börsenblatt / Buchjournal / NDR/SZ)
Views on the Rote Armee Fraktion that terrorized Germany for thirty years remain rife with
myths and contradictions. More than sixty texts from historians, social s cientists, psychologists, and scholars from legal, cultural, literary, and media studies deconstruct leftist terrorism in Germany and beyond.
Die RAF und der linke
Terrorismus
1415 pages, 182 x 250 mm
two volumes in slipcase
ISBN 978-3-936096-65-1
Hardback, November 2006
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»… renowned scholars on just about every aspect of the subject. Despite its size and its scholarly standards, highly
readable and very topical, as well.« —Stefan Schmitz, Stern
»… shows the terrorists … as the junior partner of the intelligence services during the Cold War—and reveals their antiSemitic tendencies … This project … was overdue ...« —Michael Sontheimer, Der Spiegel
Wolfgang Kraushaar is a political scientist at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research; his research and many
publications center on post-1945 protest and leftist terrorism in East and West Germany.
Wolfgang Kraushaar / Karin Wieland /
Rudi Dutschke, Andreas Baader and the RAF
• Ninth place, Best Non-fiction Books (Börsenblatt / Buchjournal / NDR/SZ)
• Recommended by the editors of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit
Rudi Dutschke Andreas Baader
und die RAF
142 pages, 110 x 175 mm
ISBN 978-3-936096-54-5
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These essays re-examine Rudi Dutschke and Andreas Baader, two charismatic leaders of
Germany’s left— one seemingly the embodiment of a »new morality«, the other a personification of infernal evil. Their common ground— admiration for the guerrillero, an affinity to
violence, a commitment to escalation— are a key to understanding the history of Germany’s
post-1945 left— and leftist terrorism.
»… readers who are seriously interested in the issue of violence in the years of the student movement should read this
volume …« —Arno Widmann, Die Tageszeitung
»… an incisive polemic …« —Gerd Koenen, Die Zeit
Wolfgang Kraushaar, political scientist, Hamburg Institute for Social Research; Karin Wieland, political scientist,
Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and Culture; Jan Philipp Reemtsma, director, Hamburg
Institute for Social Research and professor of German literature.
Wolfgang Kraushaar
The Bomb in the Jewish Community Center
»Rather than trite psycho-historical speculation that merely evokes the anti-Semitic
background … [this] book offers precise historical research and astute political analysis.«
—Rudolf Walther, Die Zeit
Die Bombe im Jüdischen
Gemeindehaus
300 pages, 139 x 210 mm
31 images
ISBN 978-3-936096-53-8
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A failed bombing attack by the leftist »Tupamaros West-Berlin« on the Jewish Community
Center in West-Berlin during a ceremony for the victims of the 1938 Nazi pogrom was a
prelude to the bloody raid on the Israeli team at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
»… goes far beyond elucidating an early anti-Semitic and potentially murderous crime of the German extreme Left …
shows how intimidation motifs and acts of violence … partially originated in the contacts between left-wing European
intellectual circles, extreme leftists, and Palestinian terrorists.« —Manfred Gerstenfeld, Jewish Political Studies Review
Wolfgang Kraushaar
Fischer in Frankfurt: An Outsider’s Career
»On that remarkable ›crossover‹—›from social outcast to foreign minister‹—this book provides
some valuable sustained commentary.« —Geoff Eley, German Studies Review
Fischer in Frankfurt: Karriere
eines Außenseiters
256 pages, 139 x 210 mm
70 images
ISBN 978-3-930908-69-1
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Reconstructs the Green Party’s star’s rise from street-fighter to foreign minister by contextualizing landmarks in his biography— the anti-authoritarian rebellion, Sponti activism with
Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Frankfurt squatters, and »Joschka’s« career as a Realpolitiker— to
reveal what makes him tick.
»… offers an impressive wealth of information about the rebellion that was initiated in the 1960s by the SDS and spread
in the 1970s into numerous radical groups.« —Rudolf Wassermann, Jahrbuch Extremismus und Demokratie
Wolfgang Kraushaar
1968 as Myth, Cipher, and Cesura
»Germany’s leading expert on the history of the sixties’ student movement … Kraushaar’s
highly readable essays demonstrate that scholars have only gotten to the tip of the iceberg.«
—Philipp Gassert, German Studies Review
1968 als Mythos, Chiffre
und Zäsur
370 pages, 139 x 210 mm
ISBN 978-3-930908-59-2
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In the history of pre-1990 Germany, no other year is as controversial as 1968. Kraushaar examines its’ myth of origin, deciphers its symbolism, and analyzes the movement in an international context.
»… informative, astute, and thoughtful. That some of the cherished self-images of this activist generation are demolished is part of the deciphering process.« —Neue Zürcher Zeitung
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Experts of Extermination: The T4-Reinhardt Network in the Belzec,
Sobibor, and Treblinka Camps
• 2015 Sybil Halpern Milton Book Prize for the best book in Holocaust Studies (2013/2014),
awarded by the German Studies Association
• Recipient of the 2012 Wilhelm Hollenberg Prize, Ruhr University Bochum
Experten der Vernichtung: Das
T4-Reinhardt-Netzwerk in den
Lagern Belzec, Sobibor und Treblinka
622 pages, 145 x 210 mm
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In the course of the so-called »Aktion Reinhardt« carried out between late 1941 and the end
of 1943 in three extermination camps—Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka—far more victims of
Nazi exterminatory policies were murdered than at the infamous camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The significance of »Aktion Reinhardt« has long been overlooked. Some 120 Germans and
Austrians were the main perpetrators of these crimes. Nearly all of them had previous experience with mass murder—experience gained in the Nazi »euthanasia« program, now generally referred to as »Action T4«, because the Berlin office that coordinated these murders was
located at Tiergartenstraße 4 in Berlin.
As planners and functionaries, these men used their knowledge to design camps and gas
chambers, to coordinate guard details or themselves serve as guards. Many of them were not
satisfied with merely following orders to perpetrate murder. They also abused and killed
people completely arbitrarily. With their subsequent participation in the systematic murder
of Europe’s Jews as part of the so-called »Aktion Reinhardt«, the T4 men irrevocably became
experts of extermination.
Sara Berger has written an impressive portrayal of the close network of relationships among
these men. She has analyzed key aspects, including the men’s readiness to obey and the individual options for actions as well as the significance of group pressure, the structural framework, and situative dynamics, as they shaped the intentions and responsibility of this collective in perpetrating genocide. Her book offers highly disturbing insights into the motives
and the »efficiency« of individual perpetrators and the entire group.
»Dr. Berger’s wide-ranging study offers a novel interpretation of the organization of power in the Nazi extermination
camps. Her book is a worthy successor to Henry Friedlander’s groundbreaking research where it highlights the complex
imbrication of the murder of the disabled with the Shoah. […] Nearly every page is painfully evocative; where other
books provide only few details she has compiled hundreds, all of which are presented with luminous eloquence and
restraint.« — Laudation, GSA Prize Committee, Sybil Halpern Milton Book Prize
Sara Berger studied history and Italian literature at the Ruhr University Bochum and the Università degli Studi di
Genova. She is now a researcher with the Fondazione Museo della Shoah in Rome.

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