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New Books in German Studies

Marshall Poe
Holocaust
World War II
Nazi Germany
Germany
National Socialism
Cold War
Soviet Union
West Germany
Adolf Hitler
East Germany
Philosophy
Nazism
Critical Theory
World War I
Hegel
Anti-Semitism
Colonialism
Nazi Ideology
Vienna
German History

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Recent Guests

Bojan Pancevski
Chief European political correspondent, The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
Episode: On Who Blew Up Nord Stream: A Conversation with Author Bojan Pancevski
Susanne Paola Antonetta
Author of The Devil's Castle
Catapult/Historical psychiatry scholar
Episode: Susanne Paola Antonetta, "The Devil's Castle: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry's Troubled History Reverberates Today" (Catapult, 2025)
Chad S.A. Gibbs
Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies; Director of the Zucker Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies
College of Charleston
Episode: Chad S. A. Gibbs "Survival at Treblinka: Geography, Gender, and Social Networks in Jewish Resistance" (U Wisconsin Press, 2026)
Frank Stahnisch
Professor of the History of Medicine and Health Care at the University of Calgary
University of Calgary
Episode: Great Minds in Despair
Cristina Florea
Assistant Professor of Modern European History at Cornell University
Cornell University
Episode: Cristina Florea, "Bukovina: The Life and Death of an East European Borderland" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Matti Friedman
Writer; author of Out of the Sky, Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe
Author, Out of the Sky
Episode: Matti Friedman, "Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe" (Spiegel & Grau, 2026)
Sarah Cushman
Director of the Holocaust Educational Foundation, Northwestern University; Senior Lecturer in History
Holocaust Educational Foundation / Northwestern University
Episode: Sarah M. Cushman et al eds., "The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau" (Routledge, 2026)
Dominic Williams
Editor of The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau
Northumbria University
Episode: Sarah M. Cushman et al eds., "The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau" (Routledge, 2026)
Joanne Pettit
Editor of The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau
Episode: Sarah M. Cushman et al eds., "The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau" (Routledge, 2026)

Reviews

4.5 out of 5 stars from 62 ratings
  • Too much WWll

    There is far, far more to German history than WW2 but this otherwise excellent podcast returns repeatedly to the war.

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    The post card
    United Kingdoma year ago
  • fatherland

    you realize how many fine writers the new yorker has had over the years after reading burkhart bilger or masha gessen. one of my close friend’s father wrote for the new yorker. Also a “ German and native New Yorker”. i always says to my friend, “ for christsake” your father wrote for the new yorker”. he always downplays his achievements. i am german, from very low germans, like van gogh’s potato eaters. we were the dirt farmers, muckers, grinders and the rebel rousers at the haymarket. The bli... more

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    Jeff from boulder
    United States2 years ago
  • Timely and topical

    Given that our President is a belligerent Fascist Ethno-Nationalist, it’s a crucial time to learn your Nazi history. This is an amazing resource.

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    5
    Robinson76879648
    United States9 years ago
  • should be called N*ZI studies

    Over 90% of these episodes are interviews of writers on the War, Nazi Germany and/or the Holocaust—all subjects that are already well covered elsewhere, as they should be. But there is actually more to Germany’s past and present than that.

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    JardinCook
    United States10 years ago

Listeners Say

Key themes from listener reviews, highlighting what works and what could be improved about the show.

Listener reviews appreciate breadth of topics but note occasional focus on WWII and related history.
Guests frequently bring expert-level detail and archival context to book discussions.
Insightful, rigorous historical interviews that balance scholarship with accessible storytelling.

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Recent interactions between the hosts and their guests.

Audrey Borowski, "Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Q: Can you discuss the versatility of Leibniz and why hybridity is central to his character?
Borowski discusses Leibniz's multiple identities, his ability to move between idealism and practical realities, and how this hybridity was essential to shaping his influence across mathematics, diplomacy, and reform.
Max Krahé and Sara Schulte, "Housing Policy At An Expensive Dead End" (Dezernat Zukunft, 2026)
Q: Why did your study focus on the distinction between subject and object subsidies?
Because it reveals how different policy instruments incentivize households and the housing stock, and how those incentives shape affordability and long-run stock development.
Roger Frie, "Edge of Catastrophe: Erich Fromm, Fascism and the Holocaust" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Q: As far as our motivation, does anything we can ever fully know, what motivated you to write this book?
Roger Frie discusses his motivation, including the long gestation of the work, his fascination with Fromm, and the aim to illuminate hidden historical contexts and personal letters that shaped Fromm's thinking.
Yair Mintzker, "I, Wandering Jew: A Five-Century History of Our Modern Condition" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Q: What does it mean for the wandering Jew to be both 'real' and 'ghostly'?
He argues the figure can be a tangible social phenomenon in certain moments and simultaneously function as a symbolic or haunted memory across history, allowing a historiographical approach that blends evidence with interpretive imagination.
Yair Mintzker, "I, Wandering Jew: A Five-Century History of Our Modern Condition" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Q: Why did you choose to structure the book in reverse chronological order?
Mintzker says it preserves suspense and helps readers see how later interpretations affect the understanding of earlier moments, while also avoiding a teleological trap by placing the present at the start.

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Scholarly interviews centered on recent books in German studies, history, and related fields, featuring rigorous discussions of memory, culture, and society across medieval to modern periods. Episodes frequently examine topics like postwar reparations, Jewish-German memory, diaspora dynamics, linguistic and cultural exchange, and the ethical dimensions of archival research and memory politics. Noteworthy traits include a strong emphasis on primary sources, archival storytelling, and method-driven conversations that connect scholarly debates to contemporary cultural and political issues. This mix should appeal to researchers, librarians, and intellectually curious listeners who enjoy deep historical analysis and book-centered conversations f... more

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