Publications:

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Books:

  • ed., together with Mark Roseman and Hanna Schissler, Conflict, Continuity, and Catastrophe. Essays in Modern German History (New York: Berghahn Books, 2007)
  • Homecomings. Returning POWs and the Legacies of Defeat in Postwar Germany (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006)

Articles and Chapters:

  • "Introduction," (with Mark Roseman) in Biess, Roseman, and Schissler, eds., Conflict and Catastrophe. Essays in Modern German History (New York: Berghahn Books, 2007), 1-23.
  • "The Search for Missing Soldiers. MIAs, POWs, and German Society in Total War and Total Defeat, 1943-45," in Biess, Roseman, and Schissler, eds., Conflict and Catastrophe. Essays in Modern German History (New York: Berghahn Books, 2007), 117-34.
  • "Between Amnesty and Anti-Communism. The West German Kameradenschinder Trials 1948-1961," in Crimes of War. Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century , eds. Omer Bartov, Atina Grossmann, and Mary Nolan (New York: New Press, 2002), 138-160.
  • "Russenknechte" und "West-Agenten": Kriegsheimkehrer und die (De)legitimierung von Kriegsgefangenschaftserfahrungen in Ost- und Westdeutschland," in Nachkrieg in Deutschland , ed. Klaus Naumann (Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2001), 59-89.
  • "The Protracted War: Returning POWs and the Making of East and West German Citizens, 1945-1955", Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 28 (Spring 2001), 155-169.
  • "Manner des Wiederaufbaus, Wiederaufbau der Männer: Kriegsheimkehrer in Ost- und Westdeutschland," in Heimat-Front. Militär und Geschlechterverhältnisse im Zeitalter der Weltkriege , eds. Karen Hagemann und Stephanie Schüler-Springorum (Frankfurt: Campus, 2002), 345-365.
  • [English translation: "Men of Reconstruction, the Reconstruction of Men. Returning POWs in East and West Germany," in Home/Front. The Military, War, Gender and Gender in Twentieth Century Germany , eds. Karen Hagemann and Stephanie Schüler-Springorum (Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2002), 335-58.]
  • "Survivors of Totalitarianism: Returning POWs and the Reconstruction of Masculine Citizenship in West Germany, 1945-1955," in The Miracle Years Revisited. A Cultural History of West Germany, ed. Hanna Schissler (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), 57-82.
  • "'Pioneers of a New Germany'. Returning POWs from the Soviet Union and the Making of East German Citizens, 1945-1950,"Central European History   32 (1999): 143-180.
  • "Vom Opfer zum Überlebenden des Totalitarismus: Westdeutsche Reaktionen auf die Rückkehr der Kriegsgefangenen aus der Sowjetunion, 1945-1955," in Kriegsgefangenschaft im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Eine vergleichende Perspektive , eds. Günter Bischof and Rüdiger Overmans (Ternitz-Pottschach: Verlag Gerhard Höller, 1998), 365-389.

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Book Reviews:

  • Hitler's African Victims: The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940. By Raffael Scheck. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, H-German, forthcoming
  • Review Essay Gefangen im Grossen Krieg. Kriegsgefangenschaft in Deutschland, 1914-1921. By Uta Hinz. Essen: Klartext, 2006 and Kriegsgefangene im Europa das Ersten Weltkrieges. Edited by Jochen Oltmer. Paderborn: Schönigh, 2006, Werkstatt Geschichte, forthcoming
  • Review Essay "Between Society and Culture: New Approaches to Twentieth Century German History," Review of The Work of Memory. New Directions in the Study of German Society and Culture. Edited by Alon Confino and Peter Fritzsche. Chicago and Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002 and Pain and Prosperity. Reconsidering Twentieth-Century German History. Edited by Paul Betts and Greg Eghigian. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. Social History 32/1 (2007), 76-81
  • The War in the Empty Air. Victims, Perpetrators, and Postwar Germans. By Dagmar Barnouw. Bloomington, Indiana University Press. H-Net Reviews (7 March 2006).
  • In the House of the Hangman. The Agonies of German Defeat, 1943-1949. By Jeffrey Olick. Chicago. Chicago University Press, 2005. Ethics and International Affairs 20/1 (Spring 2006).
  • A Church Divided. German Protestants Confront the Nazi Past. By Matthew D. Hockenos. Bloomingtio: Indiana University Press, 2004. Central European History 39/1 (March 2006): 173-75.
  • Writing World History, 1800-2000. Edited by Benedikt Stuchley and Eckhardt Fuchs. London: Oxford University Press, 2003. Neue Politische Literatur,
  • Hysterical Men. War, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Trauma in German, 1880-1930. By Paul Lerner. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. German Politics and Society 22/4 (2004): 167-71. .
  • Shell Shock. Traumatic Neurosis and the British Soldiers of the First World War. By Peter Leese. New York: Plagrave Macmillian, 2002. War in History, 12/2 (2005).
  • GIs and Fräuleins. The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany. By Maria Höhn. Chapel Hill. University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Social History 31/1 (February 2006): 91-93.
  • The Secret Police and the Revolution. The Fall of the German Democratic Republic. By Edward N. Peterson. Westport, Ct: Praeger. 2002. Central European History 37 (2004): 181-82.
  • Genocide on Trial. War Crimes and the Formation of Holocaust History and Memory. By Donald Bloxham. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions 3/2 (2002): 122-24
  • The War Come Home. Diasabled Veterans in Germany and Britain, 1918-1933. By Deborah Cohen. Berkeley:   University of California Press. Germans Politics and Society 20 (Fall 2002): 112-15.
  • The Spirit of 1914. Militarism, Myth, and Mobilization in Germany. By Jeffrey Verhey. London: Cambridge University Press, 2001. German Politics and Society 19 (Fall 2001): 133-37
  • Auf dem Weg zum sozialitischen Dorf? Zum Wandel der dörflichen Lebenswelt in der DDR und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1952-1959. By Antonia Maria Humm. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1999. Journal of Modern History 73 (September 2001): 706-08.
  • Heimkehr 1948. Geschichte und Schicksal deutscher Kriegsgefangener. Edited by Annette Kaminsky. Munich: CH Beck, 1998. Neue Politische Literatur 46 (2001): 344-45.
  • Divided Memory. The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys. By Jeffrey Herf. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. German Politics & Society 17 (1999): 144-51.
  • Ehrenmänner. Das Duell in der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft . By Ute Frevert. Munich: CH Beck 1991 and Dueling. The Cult of Honor in Fin-de-Siècle Germany. By Kevin McAleer. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Società e Soria (77) 1998: 695-700.
  • Visions of Modernity. American Business and the Modernization of Germany . By Mary Nolan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. The Journal of Economic History (54) 1995: 532-534.
  • American Policy and the Reconstruction of West Germany, 1945-1955. Edited by Jeffry M. Diefendorf, Axel Frohn, Hermann-Josef Rupieper. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. The Journal of Economic History (53) 1994: 965-66.

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