Gordon A. Craig (1913–2005) was a Scottish-American historian of Germany. He taught at both Princeton and Stanford, where he was named the J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Humanities in 1979.
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‘Talking All the Way’
February 26, 2004
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The Goblin at War
December 4, 2003
Hitler Strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, Ideology, and Atrocity
by Alexander B. Rossino
Hitler’s Arctic War: The German Campaigns in Norway, Finland,and the USSR, 1940–1945
by Chris Mann and Christer Jörgensen
Hitler and His Generals: Military Conferences, 1942–1945
edited by Helmut Heiber and David M. Glantz, with an introduction by Gerhard L. Weinberg; translated from the German by Roland Winter, Krista Smith, and Mary Beth Friedrich
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Talking All the Way
May 15, 2003
Winston Churchill
by John Keegan
Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian.
by John Lukacs
In Churchill’s Shadow: Confronting the Past in Modern Britain
by David Cannadine
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The Magic Circle
December 5, 2002
The Pity of It All: A History of Jews in Germany, 1743–1933
by Amos Elon
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Hitler’s Pal
October 24, 2002
Speer: The Final Verdict
by Joachim Fest, translated from the German by Ewald Osers and Alexandra Dring
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Whose War Is It?
October 10, 2002
Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime
by Eliot A. Cohen
The Art of War: War and Military Thought
by Martin van Creveld
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Great Scots!
September 26, 2002
How the Scots Invented the Modern World
by Arthur Herman
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‘A Very Strange Machine’
April 25, 2002
Tank: The Progress of a Monstrous War Machine
by Patrick Wright
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Racing with the Moon
December 20, 2001
Dr. Eckener’s Dream Machine: The Great Zeppelin and the Dawn of Air Travel
by Douglas Botting
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Founding Father
November 1, 2001
Adenauer: The Father of the New Germany
by Charles Williams
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Keeping Germany Fat
September 20, 2001
The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War Against the Jews
by Harold James
Doing Business with the Nazis: Britain’s Economic and Financial Relations with Germany, 1931–1939
by Neil Forbes, with a foreword by Richard Overy
IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation
by Edwin Black
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The X-Files
April 12, 2001
The “Jewish Threat”: Anti-Semitic Politics of the US Army
Joseph W. Bendersky
“Communazis”: FBI Surveillance of German Emigré Writers
Alexander Stephan
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Fate & the Führer
November 2, 2000
Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis
by Ian Kershaw
The Third Reich: A New History
by Michael Burleigh
The Social History of the Third Reich, 1933-1945
by Pierre Ayçoberry, Translated from the French by Janet Lloyd
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Not Wholly Holy
August 10, 2000
Oberammergau: The Troubling Story of the World’s Most Famous Passion Play
by James Shapiro
The Passion Play 2000: Oberammergau
edited by the Community of Oberammergau, with contributions by Otto Huber and Christian Stückl, photographs by Brigitte Maria Mayer
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The Goethe Case
June 29, 2000
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Mission Possible
December 2, 1999
A Quiet American: The Secret War of Varian Fry
by Andy Marino
Surrender On Demand
by Varian Fry
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The End of the Golden Age
November 4, 1999
Einstein’s German World
by Fritz Stern
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The War Against War
June 24, 1999
Dunant’s Dream: War, Switzerland and the History of the Red Cross by Caroline Moorehead
The Good Listener: Helen Bamber, A Life Against Cruelty
by Neil Belton
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‘LTI’ Endures
May 6, 1999
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‘Working Toward the Führer’
March 18, 1999
Germans into Nazis
by Peter Fritzsche
Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris
by Ian Kershaw
Hitler’s Vienna: A Dictator’s Appenticeship
by Brigitte Hamann, translated by Thomas Thornton
Where Ghosts Walked: Munich’s Road to the Third Reich
by David Clay Large
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Destiny in Any Case
December 3, 1998
I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941
by Victor Klemperer, translated by Martin Chalmers
Ich will Zeugnis ablegen bis zum letzten: Tagebücher 1933-1945 by Victor Klemperer, edited by Walter Nowojski
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The Good, the Bad & the Bourgeois
August 13, 1998
Thinking With History: Explorations in the Passage to Modernism
by Carl E. Schorske
Pleasure Wars: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud
by Peter Gay
My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin
by Peter Gay
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How to Think About the Swiss
June 11, 1998
The Swiss, the Gold, and the Dead: How Swiss Bankers Helped Finance the Nazi War Machine
by Jean Ziegler
Hitler’s Silent Partners: Swiss Banks, Nazi Gold, and the Pursuit of Justice
by Isabel Vincent
Hitler’s Secret Bankers: The Myth of Swiss Neutrality During the Holocaust
by Adam LeBor
Movements of Nazi Gold: Uncovering the Trail by Sidney Zabludoff
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The Other Mann
April 9, 1998
Letters of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, 1900-1949 edited and with an introduction by Hans Wysling, and a foreword by Anthony Heilbut, translated by Don Reneau
The Loyal Subject by Heinrich Mann, edited by Helmut Peitsch, translated by Ernest Boyd, by Daniel Theisen. The German Library, Volume 64.
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‘Spoils of War’
February 5, 1998
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Man of the People?
November 20, 1997
The Hitler of History by John Lukacs
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Among the Missing
October 9, 1997
The Spoils of War: World War II and Its Aftermath: The Loss, Reappearance, and Recovery of Cultural Property edited by Elizabeth Simpson
The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World’s Greatest Works of Art
by Hector Feliciano
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Becoming Hitler
May 29, 1997
Hitler’s Thirty Days to Power: January 1933 by Henry Ashby Turner Jr.
Nazi Germany and the Jews: Volume One: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939 by Saul Friedländer
Confronting the Nazi Past: New Debates on Modern German History edited by Michael Burleigh
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Prophets
January 9, 1997
From Court Jews to the Rothschilds: Art, Patronage, and Power, 1600-1800 1996-January 19, 1997. An exhibition at the Jewish Museum, New York, September 8,. Catalog of the exhibition, edited by Vivian B. Mann, edited by Richard I. Cohen
Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild and His Time by Amos Elon
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The Drama of Gottfried Semper
November 14, 1996
Gottfried Semper: Architect of the Nineteenth Century
by Harry Francis Mallgrave
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The New Germany
October 31, 1996
The Politics of Memory: Looking for Germany in the New Germany by Jane Kramer
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The Devil in the Details
September 19, 1996
Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich
by David Irving
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‘Hitler’s Willing Executioners’: An Exchange
May 23, 1996
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How Hell Worked
April 18, 1996
Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Bound Upon a Wheel of Fire: Why So Many German Jews Made the Tragic Decision to Remain in Nazi Germany by John VH Dippel
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The Mann Nobody Knew
February 29, 1996
Thomas Mann: Eine Biographie by Klaus Harpprecht
Thomas Mann: A Biography by Ronald Hayman
Thomas Mann: A Life
by Donald Prater
Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature by Anthony Heilbut
Tagebücher 19541955 by Thomas Mann, edited by Inge Jens
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In Love With Hitler
November 2, 1995
Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth by Gitta Sereny
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Under an Evil Star
October 5, 1995
Nazi Germany: A New History by Klaus P. Fischer
The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution by Henry Friedlander
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No More Parades
April 20, 1995
On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace by Donald Kagan
The First World War: A Complete History by Martin Gilbert
Victory Must Be Ours: Germany in the Great War, 19141918 by Laurence V. Moyer, Introduction by John Keegan
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Loot
November 17, 1994
The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe’s Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War by Lynn H. Nicholas
The Spoils of World War II: The American Military’s Role in the Stealing of Europe’s Treasures
by Kenneth D. Alford
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An Inability to Mourn
July 14, 1994
The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan by Ian Buruma
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Looking for Order
May 12, 1994
Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
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The True Believer
March 24, 1994
Goebbels by Ralf Georg Reuth, translated by Krishna Winston
Goebbels and ‘Der Angriff’
by Russel Lemmons
Joseph Goebbels: ein nationaler Sozialist by Ulrich Höver
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United We Fall
January 13, 1994
The Rush to German Unity by Konrad H. Jarausch
Beyond the Wall: Germany’s Road to Unification by Elizabeth Pond
German Unification in the European Context by Peter H. Merkl, with a contribution by Gert-Joachim Glaessner
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Letters On Dark Times
May 13, 1993
Hannah Arendt Karl Jaspers: Correspondence, 19261969 edited by Lotte Kohler, by Hans Saner, translated by Robert Kimber, by Rita Kimber
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Good Germans
December 17, 1992
Fatherland by Robert Harris
Contending with Hitler: Varieties of German Resistance in the Third Reich edited by David Clay Large
For the Soul of the People: Protestant Protest against Hitler by Victoria Barnett
German Resistance Against Hitler: The Search for Allies Abroad, 19381945 by Klemens von Klemperer
A Good German: Adam von Trott zu Solz by Giles MacDonogh
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The Master Builder
June 11, 1992
Karl Friedrich Schinkel: A Universal Man 31October 27, 1991 An exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, July
Karl Friedrich Schinkel: A Universal Man Catalog of the exhibition, edited by Michael Snodin
Karl Friedrich Schinkel by Helmut Börsch-Supan
Collection of Architectural Designs, including designs which have been executed and objects whose execution was intended by Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Reise nach England, Schottland und Paris im Jahre 1826 by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, edited with an introduction and notes by Gottfried Riemann, an essay by David Bindmann
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Above the Abyss
April 9, 1992
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives by Alan Bullock
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Demonic Democracy
February 13, 1992
Fleeing the Iron Cage: Culture, Politics, and Modernity in the Thought of Max Weber by Lawrence A. Scaff
Max Weber Briefe 19061908 (Max Weber Gesamtausgabe, Abteilung II, Band V) edited by M. Rainer Lepsius, edited by Wolfgang J. Mommsen, in collaboration with Birgit Rudhard, by Manfred Schön
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The Big Apfel
November 7, 1991
German Encounters with Modernity: Novels of Imperial Berlin by Katherine Roper
Berlin: Culture and Metropolis edited by Charles W. Haxthausen, edited by Heidrun Suhr
Berlin: The Politics of Order, 17371989
by Alan Balfour
Battleground Berlin: Diaries, 19451948 by Ruth Andreas-Friedrich, translated by Anna Boerresen
Berlin Before the Wall: A Foreign Student’s Diary with Sketches by Hsi-Huey Liang
Up Against It: Photographs of the Berlin Wall by Leland Rice
Berlin Journal, 19891990
by Robert Darnton
After the Wall: East Meets West in the New Berlin by John Borneman
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Glasgow’s Glasgow
September 26, 1991
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‘Glesca Belongs to Me!’
April 25, 1991
The Busconductor Hines by James Kelman
Greyhound for Breakfast by James Kelman
A Disaffection by James Kelman
Lean Tales by James Kelman, by Agnes Owens, by Alasdair Gray
The Burn by James Kelman
Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray
Unlikely Stories, Mostly by Alasdair Gray
The Fall of Kelvin Walker: A Fable of the Sixties by Alasdair Gray
1982 Janine by Alasdair Gray
McGrotty and Ludmilla or The Harbinger Report by Alasdair Gray
Something Leather by Alasdair Gray
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The Reich Stuff
January 31, 1991
BismarckPreussen, Deutschland und Europa AugustNovember 1990 an exhibition at the Deutsches Historische Museum, Berlin,
BismarckPreussen, Deutschland und Europa catalog of the exhibition
Bismarck and the Development of Germany, Vol. I: The Period of Unification, 18151871 by Otto Pflanze
Bismarck and the Development of Germany, Vol. II: The Period of Consolidation, 18711880
by Otto Pflanze
Bismarck and the Development of Germany, Vol. III: The Period of Fortification, 18801898 by Otto Pflanze
Bismarck: Das Reich in der Mitte Europas by Ernst Engelberg
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Witness
December 6, 1990
Before the Storm: Memories of My Youth in Old Prussia by Marion Countess Dönhoff, translated by Jean Steinberg, foreword by George F. Kennan
Weit ist der Weg nach Osten: Berichte und Betrachtungen aus funf Jahrzehnten by Marion Gräfin Dönhoff
Foe into Friend: The Makers of the New Germany from Konrad Adenauer to Helmut Schmidt by Marion Dönhoff, translated by Gabriele Annan
PreussenMass und Masslosigkeit by Marion Gräfin Dönhoff
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The Way to the Wall
June 28, 1990
German History, 1770-1866 (The Oxford History of Modern Europe), by James J. Sheehan
Bismarck, The White Revolutionary, Vol. I, 1815-1871, Vol. II, 1871-1898 by Lothar Gall, translated by J.A. Underwood
Bürgertum in Deutschland by Lothar Gall
Die Deutschen in ihrem Jahrhundert 1890-1990 by Christian Graf von Krockow
Letters to Freya, 1939-1945 by Helmuth James von Moltke, edited and translated by Beate Ruhm von Oppen
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Tribune of the Republic
March 15, 1990
A Present of Things Past: Selected Essays by Theodore Draper
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A New, New Reich?
January 18, 1990
A History of West Germany Volume 1: From Shadow to Substance, 19451963; Volume 2: Democracy and Its Discontents, 19631988 by Dennis L. Bark, by David R. Gress
The Federal Republic of Germany at Forty edited by Peter H. Merkl
Germany, America, Europe: Forty Years of German Foreign Policy by Wolfram F. Hanrieder
Die Erinnerungen
by Franz Josef Strauss
Men and Powers: A Political Retrospective by Helmut Schmidt, translated by Ruth Hein
La Nation orpheline: Les Allemagnes en Europe by Anne-Marie Le Gloannec
The Germans: Rich, Bothered and Divided the fall) by David Marsh
A German Identity, 17701990 by Harold James
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Making Way for Hitler
October 12, 1989
How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 19381939 by Donald Cameron Watt
Chamberlain and Roosevelt: British Foreign Policy and the United States, 19371940 by William R. Rock
Der Eisbrecher: Hitler in Stalins Kalkül by Viktor Suworow
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The Grand Decider
August 17, 1989
The Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser
A Country Made by War: From the Revolution to VietnamThe Story of America’s Rise to Power by Geoffrey Perret
The Wages of War: When America’s Soldiers Came HomeFrom Valley Forge to Vietnam by Richard Severo, by Lewis Milford
Technology and War: From 2000 BC to the Present by Martin van Creveld
Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression
by Robert L. O'Connell
The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare by John Keegan
War: Ends and Means by Paul Seabury, by Angelo Codevilla
The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution: Statecraft and the Prospect of Armageddon by Robert Jervis
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The Rising Star of the German Right
June 15, 1989
Ich war dabei by Franz Schönhuber
Freunde in der Not by Franz Schönhuber
Macht: Roman eines Freistaats by Franz Schönhuber
Trotz allem Deutschland by Franz Schönhuber
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Dangerous Liaisons
March 30, 1989
Der Teufelspakt: Die deutsch-russischen Beziehungen vom Ersten zum Zweiten Weltkrieg by Sebastian Haffner
The Deadly Embrace: Hitler, Stalin and the Nazi-Soviet Pact, 19391941 by Anthony Read, by David Fisher
Between Churchill and Stalin: The Soviet Union, Great Britain, and the Origins of the Grand Alliance by Steven Merritt Miner
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Facing Up to the Nazis
February 2, 1989
Withstanding Hitler in Germany: 19331945 by Michael Balfour
Die Hassell-Tagebücher 19381944: Aufzeichnungen vom anderen Deutschland by Ulrich von Hassell, revised and expanded from the manuscript by Klaus Peter Reiss, edited by Freiherr Hiller von Gaertringen
Briefe an Freya, 19301945 by Helmuth James von Moltke, edited by Beate Ruhm von Oppen
Robert Ley: Hitler’s Labor Front Leader by Ronald Smelser
Göring: A Biography by David Irving
The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity by Charles S. Maier
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The Other Russian Army
November 24, 1988
Die Geschichte der Wlassow-Armee by Joachim Hoffmann
General Wlassow: Russen und Deutsche zwischen Hitler und Stalin by Sergej Fröhlich, revised and edited by Edel von Freier
Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Movement: Soviet Reality and Émigré Theories by Catherine Andreyev
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Politics of a Plague
June 30, 1988
Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 18301910
by Richard J. Evans
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Rahel’s ‘Jewish Sofa’
May 12, 1988
Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin
by Deborah Hertz
Jettchen Gebert by Georg Hermann, edited by Dr. Bernhard Kaufhold
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The Art of War
April 28, 1988
The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 15001800 by Geoffrey Parker
The Mask of Command by John Keegan
Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace by Edward N. Luttwak
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The Kaiser and the Kritik
February 18, 1988
Kaiser, Hof und Staat: Wilhlem II und die deutsche Politik by John C.G. Röhl
Max Weber and German Politics: 18901920 by Wolfgang J. Mommsen, translated by Michael S. Steinberg
Max Weber zur Politik im Weltkrieg: Schriften und Reden, 19141918 (Max Weber Gesamtausgabe, Abteilung 1, Band 15) edited by Wolfgang J. Mommsen, in collaboration with Gangolf Hübner
Max Weber and his Contemporaries edited by Wolfgang J. Mommsen, edited by Jürgen Osterhammel
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After the Reich
October 8, 1987
Dreams and Delusions: The Drama of German History by Fritz Stern
The Two Germanies since 1945 by Henry Ashby Turner Jr.
A Voice From Germany speeches by Richard von Weizsäcker, translated by Karin von Abrams
Die Abschiedsrede [The Farewell Speech] by Willy Brandt
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The Good Soldier
August 13, 1987
George C. Marshall: Statesman, 19451959 by Forrest C. Pogue
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Getting Along with Hitler
July 16, 1987
Inside Nazi Germany: Conformity, Opposition, and Racism in Everyday Life
by Detlev J.K. Peukert, translated by Richard Deveson
In Hitler’s Germany: Daily Life in the Third Reich by Bernt Engelmann, translated by Krishna Winston
Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, The Family, and Nazi Politics by Claudia Koonz
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A Swiss Passion
June 25, 1987
Green Henry by Gottfried Keller, translated by A.M. Holt
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Waldheim’s Austria
February 26, 1987
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The War of the German Historians
January 15, 1987
Zweierlei Untergang: Die Zerschlagung des Deutschen Reiches und das Ende des Europäischen Judentums by Andreas Hillgruber
Dissonanzen des Fortschritts: Essays über Geschichte und Politik in Deutschland by Michael Stürmer
Nach Hitler: Der Schwierige Umgang mit Unserer Geschichte: Beiträge von Martin Broszat edited by Hermann Graml, edited by Klaus-Dietmar Henke
Nachdenken über die Deutsche Geschichte: Essays by Thomas Nipperdey
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The Waldheim File
October 9, 1986
Hitler and the Forgotten Nazis: A History of Austrian National Socialism by Bruce F. Pauley
Hitler’s Hometown: Linz, Austria, 1908-1945 by Evan Burr Bukey
Kurt Waldheim’s Hidden Past: An Interim Report to the President, World Jewish Congress World Jewish Congress (June 2, 1986)
Die Reichsidee bei Konstantin Frantz Staatswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Wien (1944) (Courtesy of Simon Wiesenthal Center.) by Kurt Waldheim
In the Eye of the Storm: A Memoir by Kurt Waldheim
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The Other Germany
September 25, 1986
German History in Marxist Perspective: The East German Approach
by Andreas Dorpalen
Bismarck, Urpreuße Und Reichsgründer by Ernst Engelberg
East Germany and Détente: Building Authority After the Wall
by A. James McAdams
Geschichte Der DDR. by Hermann Weber
“Und Willst Du Nicht Mein Bruder Sein ” Die DDR Heute by Timothy Garton Ash
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‘Schreibt un Farschreibt!’
April 10, 1986
The Holocaust: A History of the Jews in Europe During the Second World War
by Martin Gilbert
The Other Holocaust: Many Circles of Hell by Bohdan Wytwycky
A Private War: Surviving in Poland on False Papers, 19411945 by Bruno Shatyn, translated by Oscar E. Swan, with a foreword by Norman Davies
Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, 19391944 by Richard C. Lukas
Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 19331945 by Deborah E. Lipstadt
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The German Mystery Case
January 30, 1986
The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany by David Blackbourn, by Geoff Eley
Reflexionen Finsterer Zeit: Zwei Vorträge by Fritz Stern, by Hans Jonas
Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich by Jeffrey Herf
The Ideological Origins of Nazi Imperialism by Woodruff D. Smith
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Outsiders
June 13, 1985
German Jews Beyond Judaism by George L. Mosse
The German Jew: A Synthesis of Judaism and Western Civilization, 17301930 by H.I. Bach
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Hitler Without His Diaries
July 21, 1983
Hitler in Vienna, 1907-1913 by J. Sydney Jones
The Nazi Machtergreifung edited by Peter D. Stachura
The Secret Diaries of Hitler’s Doctor by David Irving
Hitler und die Endlösung: “Es ist des Führers Wunsch” of California Press next spring. by Gerald Fleming
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Bradley’s Class
June 30, 1983
A General’s Life: An Autobiography by Omar N. Bradley, by Clay Blair
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Mein liebes Tagebuch,
December 2, 1982
Thomas Mann: Diaries 1918-1939 selection and foreword by Hermann Kesten, translated by Richard Winston, by Clara Winston
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The White Revolutionary
November 19, 1981
Bismarck by Edward Crankshaw