W. Thönnessen, The Emancipation of Women. The Women’s Movement in German Social Democracy 1863-1933

(London, 1973), in International Labor and Working Class History No. 8 (November 1975), pp. 43-5.

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Jill Stephenson, Women in Nazi Society

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R. Forster and O. Ranum (eds.), Family and Society. Selections from the Annales

(Baltimore, 1976) in Journal of European Studies, Vol. 7, No. 3 (September 1977), pp. 224-6.

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‘Auch Deutschland hatte seine Suffragetten’ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,

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Keith Bullivant (ed.), Culture and Society in the Weimar Republic

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Jürgen Kocka (ed.), Theorien in der Praxis des Historikers

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‘Law and Order in West Germany: the view from the novelist’s desk and the lawyer’s pulpit’

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Erhard Lucas, Arbeiterradikalismus: Zwei Formen von Radikalismus in der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung

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Karlbernhard Jasper, Der Urbanisierungsprozess dargestellt am Beispiel der Stadt Köln

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Peter Laslett, Family Life and Illicit Love in Earlier Generations, Essays in Historical Sociology

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Helmut Bleiber (ed.), Bourgeoisie und bürgerliche Umwälzung in Deutschland 1789-1871

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Dirk Blasius, Kriminalität und Alltag. Zur Konfliktgeschichte des Alltagslebens im 19 Jahrhundert

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Marion Kaplan, The Jewish Feminist Movement in Germany

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Eda Sagarra, A Social History of Germany 1648-1914

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Alain Corbin, Les filles de noce

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James J Sheehan, German Liberalism in the 19th Century

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Willaim H Maehl, Germany in Western Civilisation

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Alex Hall, Scandal, Sensation and Social Democracy. The SPD Press and Wilhelmine Germany 1890-1914

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Renate Pore, A Conflict of Interest. Women in German Social Democracy. 1919-1933

(Westport, Connecticut, 1981), in American Historical Review Vol. 87 (1982), No.6, pp. 1412.

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James F. McMillan, Housewife or Harlot. The Place of Women in French Society 1870-1940

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Isobel V. Hull, The Entourage of Kaiser Wilhelm II 1888-1918

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Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Historische Sozialwissenschaft und Geschichtsschreibung

(Göttingen, 1980), in English Historical Review Vol. XCVIII (1983), pp. 941-2.

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Harold Evans, Good Times, Bad Times

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Roger Fletcher, Revisionism and Empire: Socialist Imperialism in Germany 1897-1914

(Allen and Unwin, London, 1984) in Social History, Vol. 10, No. 2 (May, 1985), pp. 262-3.

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Florian Tennstedt, Vom Proleten zum Industriearbeiter: Arbeiterbewegung und Sozialpolitik in Deutschland 1800 bis 1914

(Bund Verlag, Cologne, 1983), in Journal of Modern History, Vol. 57, No.2 (June, 1985), pp. 378-9.

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Ursula Büttner, Hamburg in der Staats-und Wirtschaftskrise 1928-31

(Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg, 1982), in English Historical Review, No. 397 (Oct. 1985) pp. 936-8.

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R. Bridenthal, A. Grossman, M. Kaplan (eds.), When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany

(Monthly Review Press, New York, 1984) in American Historical Review, Vol. 90, No. 4 (October 1985), pp. 963-4.

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Hagen Schulze, Weimar: Deutschland, 1917-1933

(Severin and Siedler, Berlin, 1983), in Journal of Modern History, Vol. 5, (March, 1986), No.1, pp. 363-6.

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Conan Fischer, Stormtroopers. A Social, Economic and Ideological Analysis, 1929-35

(Allen and Unwin, London, 1983), in English Historical Review, Vol. 101 (1986), No. 399, pp. 551-2.

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Hans-Ulrich Wehler, The German Empire, 1871-1918

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Foreword to Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Britische Historiker und die deutsche Geschichte

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The emergence of Nazi ideology

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Zwangssterilisierung, Krankenmord und Judenvernichtung im Nationalsozialismus: Ein Überblick

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Nazism

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What is history?

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Fiktion

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What is History?

Now’, in David Cannadine (ed.), What is History Now? (Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2002), pp. 1-18.

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Social Outsiders in German History: From the Sixteenth Century to 1933

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Antisemitism and the German working class 1870-1933

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Hans von Hentig and the Politics of German Criminology

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In Search of German Social Darwinism: The History and Historiography of a Concept

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Epidemics

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German History: Past, Present and Future

in Gordon Martel (ed.), Modern Germany Reconsidered 1870-1945 (London, 1992), pp. 237-54. Revised version reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997.

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Die Todesstrafe in der Weimarer Republik

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Ascenso y triunfo del Nazismo en Alemania

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‘Liberalismo e politica locale nelle città tedesche dal 1860 al 1914: il caso di Amburgo

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Introduction: The “Dangerous Classes

in Germany from the Middle Ages to the Twelfth Century', in The German Underworld, pp. 1-28 (reprinted in Proletarians and Politics, November 1990)

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Die “History-Workshop

- Bewegung in England', in Hannes Heer, Volker Ullrich (eds.), Geschichte entdecken: Erfahrungen und Projekte der neueen Geschichtsbewegung (Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1985), pp. 37-45.

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Feminismus als Forschungskonzept: Anmerkungen für die Praxis

in R.E. B. Joeres, A. Kuhn (eds.), Frauen in der Geschichte IV: Frauenbilder und Frauenwirklichkeiten. Interdisziplinäre Studien zur Frauengeschichte in Deutschland im 18. un 19. Jahrhundert (Geschichtsdidaktik, Studien/Materialien, Band 26 Pädagogischer Verlag Schwann-Bagel, Dusseldorf, 1985), pp. 35-48; English version: 'The Concept of Feminism: Notes for Practising Historians', in Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres and Mary Jo Maynes (eds.), German Women in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Social and Literary History (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, March 1986), pp. 247-70.

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Die Sozialistische Frauenbewegung

in Thomas Meyer, Susanne Miller and Joachim Rohlfes (eds.), Lern-und Arbeitsbuch deutsche Arbeitebewegung: Darstellung, Chroniken, Dokumente (Verlag Neue Gesellschaft, Bonn, 1984), Vol. III, pp. 231-264 (repr. 1984 as Vol. 207 of Schriftenreihe der Bundeszentrale fur politische Bildung, Bonn) (reprinted 1987).

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‘Öffentlichkeit und Autorität: Zur Geschichte der Hinrichtungen in Deutschland vom Allgemeinen Landrecht bis zum Dritten Reich

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‘Die Cholera und die Sozialdemokratie: Arbeiterbewegung, Bürgertum und Staat in Hamburg während der Krise von 1892

A. Herzig, D. Langewiesche, A. Sywottek (eds.), Arbeiter in Hamburg (Verlag Erziehung und Wissenschaft, Hamburg, 1983), pp. 203-213.

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‘Introduction: The Sociological Interpretation of German Labour History

in The German Working Class (1982) pp. 15-53. Revised version reprinted in Rethinking German History; Japanese translation in 1992 (Igirisu Shakai Shiha no Doitsu Shiron).

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‘Family and Politics: German Social Democracy and the Working Class Family in Theory and Practice 1891-1914

, in The German Family (1981) pp. 256-284. Revised version reprinted in Comrades and Sisters, June, 1987.

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Liberalism and Society: the Feminist Movement and Social Change

in Society and Politics in Wilhelmine Germany, (1978) pp 186-214: Reprinted in Japanese edn., 1987. Revised version reprinted in Rethinking German History.

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‘Introduction: Wilhelm II’s Germany and the Historians’

in Society and Politics in Wilhelmine Germany (1978), pp. 11-39. Reprinted in Japanese edn., 1987. Revised version reprinted in Rethinking German History, October 1987.

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The German Foreign Office and the Nazi Past

Neue Politische Literatur, 56 (2011), pp. 165-83.

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History, Memory, and the Law: The Historian as Expert Witness

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New Perspectives on Hitler

Journal of Contemporary History Vol. 37 (2002), pp. 147-52

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Polizei, Politik und Gesellschaft in Deutschland 1700-1933

Geschichte und Gesellschaft, Vol. 22, No.4 (November, 1996), pp. 609-28. English version printed in Rereading German History, 1997.

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From Unification to World War

Bulletin of the German Historical Institute London, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 (May, 1996), pp. 15-26. Reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997.

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Prisoners of the German Past

Patterns of Prejudice, Vol. 30, No.1 (January, 1996), pp. 73-81. Abridged German version in 1999. Zeitschrift für Sozialgescchichte des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts, Vol. 11, No. 3 (August, 1996), pp. 128-33. English version printed in Rereading German History, 1997

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Nipperdeys Neunzehntes Jahrhundert: Eine kritische Auseinandersetzung

Geschichte und Gesellschaft, Vol. 20 (1994), pp. 119-139. English version printed in Rereading German History, 1997.

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The European Family and the Great War

Social History Vol. 16, No.3 (1991), pp.341-52

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Social Democracy and the Working Class in Imperial Germany

European History Quarterly, Vol. 18 (1988) pp. 77-90 (reprinted in Proletarians and Politics, 1990).

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The New Nationalism and the Old History: Perspectives on the West German Historikerstreit

Journal of Modern History Vol. 59 (1987), No. 4, pp. 761-97; abridged German version: 'Der Historikerstreit in internationaler Perspektive', in Heide Gerstenberger and Dorothea Schmidt (eds.), Normalität oder Normalisierung? Geschichtwerkstätten und Faschismusanalyse (Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot, Munster, 1987), pp. 178-90.

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‘Upstairs, Downstairs in the Central European Home

Archiv für Sozialgeschichte, Vol. XXVII (1987), pp. 628-40.

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The Making of the German Working Class

Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Labour History 50 (Spring, 1985), pp. 42-45 (revised version reprinted in Proletarians and Politics, November 1990).

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From Hitler to Bismarck: “Third Reich” and Kaiserreich in Recent Historiography Part II

The Historical Journal Vol. 26 (1983) No. 3, pp. 999-1020 (revised version reprinted in Rethinking German History, October 1987).

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From Hitler to Bismarck: “Third Reich” and Kaiserreich in Recent Historiography Part I

The Historical Journal, Vol. 26, No. 2 (1983) pp. 485-497 (revised version reprinted in Rethinking German History, Oct. 1987).

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The History of European Women: A Critical Survey of Recent Research

Journal of Modern History, Vol. 52, No. 4 (1980), pp. 556-76.

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Modernisation Theory and Women’s History

Archiv für Sozialgeschichte, Vol. XX (1980), pp. 492-514.

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Women’s History: the Limits of Reclamation

Social History, Vol. 5, No. 2 (May, 1980), pp. 273-81

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Labor History in the Federal Republic of Germany

International Labor and Working Class History, No. 10 (November, 1976), pp. 20-4.

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Heinrich August Winkler, Von der Revolution zur Stabilisierung: Arbeiter und Arbeiterbewegung in der Weimarer Republik, 1918 bis 1924

(Verlag J.H.W. Dietz Nachfolger, Bonn, 1984), in Journal of Modern History, Vol. 58, (June, 1986), No. 2, pp. 572-4; revised version reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997.

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Stanley Suval, Electoral Politics in Wilhelmine Germany

(University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1985), in American Historical Review, Vol. 91 (June 1986) No. 3, pp. 686.

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Nicholas Bullock and James Read, The Movement for Housing Reform in Germany and France, 1840-1914

(Cambridge, 1985), in European History Quarterly Vol. 16 (October 1986), No. 4, pp. 514-6.

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Susan G. Bell and Karen M. Offen (eds.), Women, the Family and Freedom. A Debate in Documents Vol. 1, 1750-1880; Vol. II, 1880-1950

(Stanford U.P., 1983) in English Historical Review, Vol. CI, No. 401, (October 1986), pp. 1020-22

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Jacques R. Pauwels, Women, Nazis and Universities: Female University Students in the Third Reich 1933-1945

(Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, 1984), in The Historian, Vol. XLVIII, (1986), pp. 453-4.

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James S. Roberts, Drink, Temperance and the Working Class in Nineteenth-Century Germany

(Allen and Unwin, London, 1984), in English Historical Review, Vol. CII, No. 402 (Jan. 1987), pp. 248-9.

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Alfred G. Meyer, The Feminism and Socialism of Lily Braun

(Indiana U.P., Bloomington, 1985), in American Historical Review, Vol. 92 (Feb. 1987), pp. 156-7.

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Heinrich August Winkler, Der Schein der Normalität. Arbeiter und Arbeiterbewegung in der Weimarer Republik 1924 bis 1930

(Verlag J.H.W. Dietz Nachf, 1985), in American Historical Review, Vol. 92 (April, 1987), pp. 443-4; revised version reprinted in Rereading German History.

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Christiane Eisenberg, Frühe Arbeiterbewegung und Genossenschaften

(Verlag Neue Gesellschaft, Bonn, 1985), in New German Critique, No. 42 (1987), pp. 188-92; revised version reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997.

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‘Business Ethics’, review of Peter Hayes, Industry and Ideology: IG Farben in the Nazi Era

(Cambridge University Press, 1987), in The Times Higher Education Supplement, 1 July, 1988.

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‘A “Normal” Act of Genocide?’

Review of Charles Maier, The Unmasterable Past. History Holocaust and National Identity (Cambridge, Mass., 1988), in The New York Times, 29 January, 1989.

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‘Shifting the blame’

Review of Harold James, A German Identity 1770-1990 (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1989), in The Times Literary Supplement, 23-29 June, 1989, p. 683.

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Archiv für Sozialgeschichte

Vol. 26 (1986) in English Historical Review, Vol. 104 (1989), p. 776

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‘Fun on the job’.

Review of Joan Campbell, Joy in Work. German Work: The national debate (Princeton, 1989), in The Times Literary Supplement, 1-7 December, 1989, p. 134.

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‘Counselling the Kaiser’

Review of W. E. Mosse, The German-Jewish Economic Elite 1820-1935: A socio-cultural profile (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989), in The Times Literary Supplement, 8-14 December, 1989, pp. 1357.

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From racial hygiene to Auschwitz’

Review of Paul Weindling, Health, Race and German Politics Between National Unification and Nazism, 1870-1945 (Cambridge U.P., Cambridge, 1989) in The Times Higher Education Supplement, 19 January, 1990, pp. 18-19; revised version reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997.

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James Woycke Birth Control in Germany 1871-1933

( Routledge, London, 1988), in History, Vol. 75, No. 243 (February, 1990), pp. 159-60.

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Heinrich August Winkler, Der Weg in die Katastrophe. Arbeiter und Arbeiterbewegung in der Weimarer Republik 1930 bis 1933

(Berlin: J.H.W. Dietz Nachf., 1987), in American Historical Review, Vol. 95 (1990), pp. 195-6; revised version reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997.

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Dorothee Wierling, Mädchen für alles: Arbeitsalltag und Lebensgeschichte städtischer Dienstmädchen um die Jahrhundertwende

(J.H.W. Dietz Nachf., Bonn, 1987) in English Historical Review, Vol. CV, No. 415 (April, 1990), pp. 520-1.

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‘Towards unification’. Review of James J. Sheehan, German History 1770-1866

(Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1990), The Times Literary Supplement, 4-10 May, 1990, pp. 463-4; revised version reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997

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“Final” or “first”‘?.

Review of Arno J. Mayer, Why Did the Heavens Not Darken? The Final Solution in History, (Verso, London, 1990), and Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn, The History and Sociology of Genocide. Analyses and Case Studies (Yale, U.P., London, 1990) in The Jewish Chronicle, 6 July, 1990, p. 14.

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Klaus Bade (ed.), Population, Labour and Migration in Nineteenth- and Twentieth- Century Germany

(Berg, Oxford, 1987) in European History Quarterly Vol. 20 (1990), pp. 435-43.

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‘The Politics of Reassurance’. Review of Helmut Schmidt, Retrospective

(Cape, London, 1990), in The Times Literary Supplement 27 July - 2 August, 1990, p. 796.

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‘Hitler’s Policeman’. Review of Peter Padfield, Himmler, Reichsführer-SS

(Macmillan, London, 1990), in The Times Literary Supplement 24-30 August, 1990, pp. 899.

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‘Too quick to judge’. Review of Thomas Nipperdey, Deutsche Geschichte 1866-1918, 1: Arbeitswelt und Burgergeist

(Beck, Munich, 1990), in The Times Literary Supplement 5-11 October 1990, p. 1,079 (see also Gustav Seibt, 'Urteilssprüche', Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 14 November 1990, commenting on this review).

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‘Weimarama’.

Review of Kalus Theweleit, Male Fantasies (2 vols., Polity Press, Cambridge, 1987 and 1989), in London Review of Books, 8 November 1990, p. 27; revised version reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997.

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E.J Hobsbawm, Das Imperiale Zeitalter

(Frankfurt am Main, Campus Verlag, 1989) in 1999. Zeitschrift für Sozialgeschichte des 20. und 21. jahrhunderts, Vol. 6, No. 1 (January, 1991), pp. 140-1.

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‘What was Hitler’s Secret?’

Review of Ian Kershaw, Hitler (Longman, 1991), in The Jewish Chronicle, 26 April, 1991, p. 23.

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‘What was Hitler’s Secret?’

Review of Ian Kershaw, Hitler (Longman, 1991), in The Jewish Chronicle, 26 April, 1991,p. 23.

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(Reinhard Spree, Health and Social Class in Imperial Germany

Berg, Oxford, 1988), in English Historical Review, Vol. 106, (April, 1991), pp. 507.

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Reinhard Spree, Health and Social Class in Imperial Germany

Berg, Oxford, 1988), in English Historical Review, Vol. 106, (April, 1991), pp. 507.

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Robert Gellately, The Gestapo and German Society

in Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 39/3 (July, 1991), pp. 485-88.

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‘Revelations concerning revolution’

Review of Detlev Peukert, The Weimar Republic (Allen Lane, London, 1991), and Robert Conquest, Stalin: Breaker of Nations (Weidenfeld, London 1991) in The Jewish Chronicle 20 September 1991.

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‘Medikalisierung der Gesellscha

Manfred Vasolds Geschichte der Epidemien und Seuchen seit dem Mittelalter'. Review of Manfred Vasold, Pest, Not und Schwere Plagen (C.H. Beck Verlag, Munich, 1991) in Die Zeit 42 (11 October 1991), p. 29.

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Helga Kutz-Bauer, Arbeiterschaft, Arbeiterbewegung und bürgerlicher Staat in der Zeit der Großen Depression

(Bonn, 1988), in English Historical Review Vol. 107, no. 422 (Jan. 1992), pp. 242-4.

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‘When hate becomes routine’.

Review of David Bankier, The Germans and the Final Solution (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992), Benny Morris, The Roots of Appeasement (Frank Cass, London 1991) and Marianne Walter, The Poison Seed (The Book Guild, London, 1991), in The Jewish Chronicle 27 March, 1992, pp. 37.

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‘Geschlecht und Klasse’.

Review of Logie Barrow et al. (eds.), Nichts als Unterdrückung? (Münster, 1991), in Die Zeit, 15 May, 1992, pp. 22.

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‘Rendering unto the Kaiser…

Review of Thomas A Kohut, Wilhelm II and the Germans. A Study of Leadership (Oxford University Press, New York, 1992), in The Times Literary Supplement 10 July, 1992, pp. 7.

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‘The Bomb that Failed’. Review of Peter Hoffmann, Claus Schenk, Graf von Stauffenberg und seine Brüder

(DVA, Stuttgart, 1992), Klemens von Klemperer, German Resistance against Hitler (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1992), David Clay Large (ed.), Contending with Hitler (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1992), and Francis Nicosia and Lawrence Stokes (eds.), Germans against Nazism (Berg Publishers, Oxford, 1992) in The Times Literary Supplement, 25 September, 1992, pp. 33; revised version reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997.

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‘Playing for the Devil. How much did Furtwängler really resist the Nazis?’

Review of Sam H Shirakawa, The Devil's Music Master: The controversial life and career of Wilhelm Furtwängler (Oxford University Press, New York, 1992) and Fred K. Prieberg, Trial of Strength. Wilhelm Furtwängler and the Third Reich (Quartet Books, London, 1992), in The Times Literary Supplement, 13 November, 1992, pp. 3-4; revised version reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997.

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‘Das Empire verspielt? “Ende des Ruhms”: Eine neue Churchill-Biographie sorgt in England für Aufregung’.

Review of John Charmley, Churchill: The End of Glory (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1993), in Die Zeit, 22 January, 1993, pp. 16; English version version reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997.

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‘Disputing in the Darkness’. Review of Ernst Piper (ed.), Forever in the Shadow of Hitler?

'Disputing in the Darkness'. Review of Ernst Piper (ed.), Forever in the Shadow of Hitler? (Humanities Press, New Jersey, 1993), Richard Lamb, War in Italy 1943-45 (John Murray, London, 1993) and Ronald Smelser and Rainer Zitelman (eds.), The Nazi Elite (Macmillan, London, 1993), in The Jewish Chronicle, 9 July, 1993, pp. 29.

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‘No Sudden Descent’. Review of Norbert Frei, National Socialist Rule in Germany

(Blackwell, Oxford, 1993), in The Times Literary Supplement, 23 July 1993, p.25.

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‘Peasants and the partisans’.

Review of Harold Werner, Fighting Back (Colombia University Press, New York, 1993) and Mark Mazower, Inside Hitler's Greece (Yale University Press, London, 1993) in The Jewish Chronicle, 15 October 1993, p. 23.

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Gordon Uhlmann and Ursula Weisser (eds.), Krankenhausalltag seit den Zeiten der Cholera

(Ernst Kabel Verlag, Hamburg, 1992) in Medical History, Vol. 37 (1993), pp. 472-3.

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‘Are there Lessons in the Weimar Republic?’

Review of Richard Bessel, Germany After the First World War (Oxford University Press. Oxford, 1993), and Gerald D. Feldman, The Great Disorder (Oxford University Press, New York), in The New York Times, 30 January 1994, p. 13.

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‘Raking over Dark Embers’.

Review of David Cesarani (ed.), The Final Solution (Routledge, 1993) and Barbara Heinmannsberg (ed.), The Collective Silence (Macmillan, 1993), in The Jewish Chronicle, 11 March 1994, p. 35.

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‘Cults and Crusades

Review of Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, Secret Germany. Claus von Stauffenberg and the mystical crusade against Hitler (Cape, 1994) and Anton Gill, An Honourable Defeat. The fight against National Socialism in Germany, 1933-1945 (Heinemann, 1994), in The Times Literary Supplement, 5 August, 1994, p. 10.

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‘Beyond the Historikerstreit’

Review of Imanuel Geiss, Der Hysterikerstreit: Ein unpolemischer Essay (Bouvier, Bonn, 1992) and Christa Hoffman, Stunden Null? Vergangenheitsbewältigung in Deutschland 1945 und 1989 (Bouvier, Bonn, 1992), in Patterns of Prejudice, Vol. 28 (1994), pp. 83-86; revised version reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997.

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‘Explaining the Unexplainable’. Review of R.J.B. Bosworth, Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima

(Routledge, 1993), Richard Lukas, Did the Children Cry? (Hippocrene, 1993) and Harold James, A German Identity? (Phoenix paperback edn. 1994) in The Jewish Chronicle, 18 November 1994.

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‘Pistols at twilight’. Review of Kevin McAleer, Dueling

The cult of honor in 'fin-de-siècle Germany' (Princeton University Press, 1994), in The Times Literary Supplement, 16 December 1994, p. 32.

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‘Cosy myth and uncomfortable reality of Islanders’ war’.

Review of Madeleine Bunting, The Model Occupation: The Channel Islands under German rule 1940-1945 Harper Collins, London, 1995), in The Jewish Chronicle, 20 January, 1995, p. 28.

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‘War, bad books and other disasters’.

.Review of Christopher Coker, War and the 20th Centuary (Brassey's, London, 1995), Stephen Koch, Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Münzenberg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals (Harper Collins, New York, 1995), and John Hutchinson, Modern Nationalism (Harper Collins, London, 1995) in The Jewish Chronicle, 10 March 1995.

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Review of David Blackbourn, Marpingen. Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Bismarckian Germany

(Oxford University Press, 1994), in German History, Vol. 13, No. 1, (1995), pp. 121-5; reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997

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‘Jenseits der Schattenlinien’. Review of Joseph Rovan, Geschichte der Deutschen

(Hanser Verlag, Munich, 1995), in Die Zeit, Nr. 15 (7 April, 1995), p. 30; English version reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997.

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‘Primary schooling and playing’. Review of Martin Gilbert, The Day the War Ended

(Harper Collins, London, 1995) and Hugh Thomas, Dopplegängers (Fourth Estate, London, 1995), in The Jewish Chronicle, 9 June, 1995

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‘The Deceptions of Albert Speer’

The Times Literary Supplement, 29 September 1995, pp. 4-6; reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997.

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‘Bürglerliche Gesellschaft und charismatische Herrschaft’. Review of Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Deutsche Gesselschaftsgeschichte,

Vol. 3 (C.H. Beck, Munich, 1995), in Die Zeit, No. 42 (13 October, 1995), pp. 32-33; English revised version reprinted in Rereading German History, 1997.

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Review of Ellen Jahn, Die Cholera in Medizin und Pharmazie im Zeitalter des Hygienikers Max von Pettenkofer

(Peter Lang, Stuttgart, 1994), in Isis, Vol. 86, No. 3 (September, 1995), p. 508.

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‘Guilt and other European Traits’. Review of Hartley Shawcross, Life Sentence: The Memoirs of Lord Shawcross

(Constable, London, 1995), Tom Bower, Blind Eye to Murder (2nd ed., Little, Brown, London, 1995), Catrine Clay and Michael Leapman, Master Race (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1995), and Roger Eatwell, Fascism: A History (Chatto and Windus, London 1995), in The Jewish Chronicle 1 December 1995.

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‘Why the plot failed’. Review of Joachim C. Fest, Plotting Hitler’s Death

(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1996), in The Times Literary Supplement, 22 November 1996, p. 28.

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Review of Maria Tatar, Lustmord. Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany

(Princeton University Press, 1995), in German History, Vol. 14, No. 3 (November 1996), pp. 414-415.

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‘German Questions’. Review of Michael A. Meyer and Michael Brenne(eds.), German-Jewish History in Modern Times, Vol. I

Tradition and Enlightenment (Colombia University Press, New York, 1996) Michael Berkowitz, Western Jewry and the Zionist Project, 1914-1933 (Cambridge University Press, 1996), William Brustein, The Logic of Evil: The Social Origins of the Nazi Party 1925-1933 (Yale University Press, 1996), Nathan Stolzfus, Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany (W.W.Norton and Co., New York, 1996), Yehuda Bauer, Jews for Sale? Nazi-Jewish Negotiations 1939-1945 (Yale University Press, 1996), and George Lavy, Germany and Israel: Moral Debate and National Interest (Frank Cass, London, 1996), in The Jewish Chronicle 21 February, 1997, p. 27.

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Review of Nancy R. Reagin, A German Women’s Movement

(University of Nebraska Press, 1996), in Journal of Modern History, Vol. 69/2 (June, 1997), pp. 386-88.

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Review of Kathleen Canning, Languages of Labor and Gender: Female Factory Work in Germany, 1850-1914

(Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1996), in Labor History, Vol. 38, No. 203, Spring-Summer 1997, pp. 379-80.

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‘More divided than ever’. Review of Giles MacDonogh, Berlin

(Sinclair-Stevenson, London, 1997), in The Times Literary Supplement, 10 October 1997, p. 33.

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Review of Mary Lindemann, Health and Healing in 18th-century Germany

(Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1996), in Medical History, Vol. 42 (1998), pp. 248-9.

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‘Der Mustergau. Ein neues Buch über die Rolle Hamburgs im “Dritten Reich”‘

Review of Angelika Ebbinghaus and Karsten Linne (eds.), Kein abgeschlossenes Kapitel. Hamburg im "Dritten Reich" (EVA/Rotbuch Verlag, Hamburg, 1997), in Die Zeit, 14 May, 1998, p. 42.

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‘Argument Without End’. Review of William Lamont (ed.), Historical Controversies and Historians

(UCL Press, London 1998), in History Today, Vol. 48, No. 8 (August, 1998), pp. 56-7.

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‘How Hitler got that way’. Review of Ian Kershaw, Hitler. Vol. I: 1889-1936: Hubris

(London: Penguin, 1998), in The Sunday Telegraph, 13 September 1998, p. 13.

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‘Medium must be right, whatever the message’

Review of Lawrence Rees, The Nazis: A Warning from History (London: BBC Worldwide, 1998) and Klaus Fischer, History of an Obsession (London: Constable, 1998), in The Jewish Chronicle, 18 September 1998, p. 44.

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‘Stolperstein Kreidefelsen’. Review of Hagen Schulze, Phönix Europa

(Berlin: Siedler, 1998), in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 5 October 1998, p. L33.

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‘Nasty, brutish and short? Eurocentric efforts to describe the twentieth century’

Review of Michael Howard and Wm. Roger Louis (eds.), The Oxford History of the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 1000), in The Times Literary Supplement, 12 February 1999, pp. 3-4.

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‘Not very seductive’. Review of Rainer Zitelman, Hitler: The Politics of Seduction

(London House, London, 1999), in The Jewish Chronicle, 19 February 1999

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Ute Planert, Antifeminismus im Kaiserreich

(Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1998), in German History, Vol. 18, No. 1 (January 2000), pp. 125-7.

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‘Die Vielfalt Europas’. Review of Michael Salewski, Geschichte Europas

(C. H. Beck Verlag, Munich, 2000) and Mark Mazower, Der dunkle Kontinent (Alexander Fest Verlag, Berlin), in Die Zeit, 25 May 2000, p. 55.

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‘Response to Baldwin’, Contemporary European History,

Contemporary European History, Vol. 20, No. 3 (2011), pp. 367-76.

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‘Reply to Jürgen Martschukat

, 1999. Zeitschrift für Sozialgeschichte des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts, Vol. 12 (1997) 4, pp. 124-9.

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German resistance to Hitler

The Times Literary Supplement, 22 January, 1993 (letter replying to attacks on review).

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Furtwängler and the German Resistance

The Times Literary Supplement, 4 December, 1992 (letter replying to attacks on reviews).

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Social History in the Post-modern Age

Storia della Storiografia, Vol. 18 (1991), pp. 36-42.

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Kathryn Kish Sklar et al. (eds.), Social Justice Feminists in the United States and Germany

(Ithaca, Cornell UP, 1998,) in German History, Vol. 18, No. 2 (May, 2000), pp. 273-4.

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German revisionism

Present Tense, Nov. - Dec. 1989, pp. 4-5 (reply to critics).

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‘War crimes’, New York Review of Books

Vol. 36, No. 20 (21 December 1989) (letter replying to review).

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Helmut Berding et al. (eds.), Kriminalität und abweichendes Verhalten

(Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1999), in German History, Vol. 18, No. 3 (September 2000), pp. 379-80.

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Himmler’s Role in the Third Reich

The Times Literary Supplement, 16-23 Nov. 1990, p 1,235 (letter replying to attack on review).

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Mass Murder

The Times Higher Education Supplement, 3 November 1989 (letter replying to review).

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‘Gegen die postmoderne Denkverwilderung’. Review of Hans-Ulrich Welher, Umbruch und Kontinuität

(Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000), in die tageszeitung (Berlin), 7 November 2000, p. 16.

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Research Resources in Britain for historians working on Germany: colloquium report

German History, No. 3 (Spring, 1986), pp. 71-8. Also published as 'Research Resources for British historians working on Germany', in David Paisey (ed.) German Studies: British Resources (British Library Occasional Papers 8, London, 1986), pp. 277-81.

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‘Germany’, in Mark Greengrass (ed.)

Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature, Vol. 70, (Historical Association, London, 1986), pp. 128-30.

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‘Ein Sieg für die freie Rede’. Review of Eva Menasse, Der Holocaust vor Gericht

(Berlin, Siedler Verlag, 2000), in die tageszeitung (Berlin), 23 January 2001, p. 16.

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‘Exhibitions’, German History

Vol. 1 (August, 1984), pp. 20-23.

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Anne Goldberg, Sex, Religion, and the Making of Modern Madness

(New York, Oxford University Press, 1999), in Social History, Vol. 26, No. 2 (January, 2001), pp. 134-5.

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Regula Ludi, Die Fabrikation des Verbrechens. Zur Geschichte der modernen Kriminalpolitik 1750-1859

(Tübingen, Bibliotheca Academica, 1999), in German History Vol. 19, No. 1 (January, 2001), pp. 83-85.

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Feminism and Anti-clericalism in France, 1870-1922

The Historical Journal, Vol. 25, (1982), pp. 947-949.

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‘Communication’ in American Historical Review

Vol. 85, No. 4, (October 1980), pp. 1045-8.

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‘Ideology and Sub-culture in German Social Democracy 1878-1914

Social History Society Newsletter, 4/1 (Spring, 1979), p. 6.

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1978 Linz Conference

Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Labour History, No. 38, (May, 1979), pp. 6-7.

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Women and Socialism in Imperial Germany: The Sources and their Problems

International Labor and Working-Class History, No. 9 (1976), pp. 16-19.

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Ein Brief Hugo Haases an Clara Zetkin aus dem Jahre 1915

Internationale Wissenschaftliche Korrespondenz zur Geschichte der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung, Vol. 11, (1975), No. 1, pp. 139-41.

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‘A trial under cross examination.’ Review of D. D. Guttenplan, The Holocaust on Trial

(London, Granta Books, 2001), in The Sunday Telegraph, 18 March 2001, Review Section, p. 11.

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‘Atmosphäre des Schreckens’. Review of Robert Gellately, Backing Hitler

(Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001), in die tageszeitung (Berlin), 10 April 2001, p. 16.

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Review of Rainer Liedtke, Jewish Welfare in Hamburg and Manchester c.1850-1914

(OUP, 1998), and Jörg Vögele, Urban Mortality Change in England and Germany, 1870-1913 (Liverpool University Press, 1998), in Urban History 28 (2001) 2, pp. 319-21

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‘An umbrella that’s almost too big for the storm’.

Review of John Roth, Elizabeth Maxwell (eds.), Remembering for the Future, 3 vols., Palgrave, London, 2001, in The Jewish Chronicle 10 August 2001.

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Review of Peter Baldwin, Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930

Cambridge University Press, 1999) and Andrew Cliff, Peter Haggett and Matthew Smallman-Raynor, Deciphering Global Epidemics (Cambridge University Press, 1998) in European History Quarterly, Vol. 31 (2001) No. 3, pp. 447-53.

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Review of Jürgen Martschukat, Inszeniertes Töten

(Böhlau, Cologne, 2000), in German History Vol. 19, No. 3 (September 2001), p. 446-451.

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‘Diminished Responsibility’. Review of Richard Overy, Interrogations

in The Times Literary Supplement, 26 October 2001, pp. 3-4.

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‘Agenda of mass murder’. Review of Mark Roseman, The Villa, the Lake, the Meeting

(Penguin, 2002), in The Jewish Chronicle, 18 January 2002, p. 29.

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Review of Thomas Nutz, Strafanstalt als Besserungsmaschine

(Oldenbourg, Munich, 2001), in German History Vol. 20 (2002), No. 3, July 2002, pp. 387-88.

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‘Truth, power and history’. Review of Bernard Williams, Truth and Truthfulness

(Princeton UP, Princeton, 2002), in Prospect 80 (November, 2002), pp. 64-66.

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‘Before the abyss’. Review of Jonathan Wright, Gustav Stresemann – Weimar’s Greatest Statesman

(OUP, Oxford, 2002), in The Times Literary Supplement, 8 November 2002, p. 10.

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‘Bequem trägt’s sich auf anderer Leute Schultern. Und es lag doch am Versailler Vertrag! Für seine neue Hitler-Biografie wärmt Ralf Georg Reuth altbekannte revisionistische Ideen wieder auf.’

Review of Ralf Georg Reuth, Hitler: Eine politische Biographie (Piper Verlag 2003) in Frankfurter Rundschau, 11 January 2003. Feuilleton, p. 20.

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‘Selbst Teil der Dunkelheit. Die religiösen Anschauungen der Nationalsozialisten.’

Review of Richard Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich. Nazi Conceptions of Christianity 1919-1945 (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2003), in Süddeutsche Zeitung 160 (15 July 2003). p. 14.

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‘Kursänderung.’ Review of Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Deutsche Gesellschaftsgeschichte

Vol 4 (C.H.Beck, Munich, 2003), in Frankfurter Rundschau 8 October 2003, Sachbuch, p. 15.

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Review of Christoph Cornelissen, Gerhard Ritter: Geschichtswissenschaft und Politik im 20. Jahrhundert

(Düsseldorf, 2001), in English Historical Review 119 (2004) No. 482 (June, 2004), pp. 756-9.

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‘Behind the glass box’. Review of David Cesarani, Eichmann

(Heinemann, 2004) in The Jewish Chronicle 10 September 2004, p. 43.

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Review of Jennifer Jenkins, Provincial Modernity: Local Culture and Liberal Politics n Fin-de-Siècle Hamburg

(Cornell UP, 2003) and Carolyn Kay, Art and the German Bourgeoisie: Alfred Lichtwark and Modern Painting in Hamburg, 1886-1914 (Toronto UP, 2002), in Journal of Modern History, Vol. 77 (2005), 218-20.

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Review of Pamela E. Swett, Neighbors and Enemies The Culture of Radicalism in Berlin, 1929-1933

(CUP, New York, 2004), in American Historical Review December 2005, pp. 1,619-20.

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‘Broken Glass, Broken Lives’. Review of Martin Gilbert, Kristallnacht: Prelude to Disaster

(HarperCollins, London, 2005) and Neil Gregor (ed.), Nazism, War and Genocide (Exeter UP, 2005), in BBC History Magazine Vol 7 (2006) No. 4, p. 55.

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Review of Forschungsstelle fur Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg (ed.), Hamburg im “Dritten Reich”

(Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen, 2006), in Zeitschrift des Vereins für Hamburgische Geschichte, Vol. 92 (2006), pp. 167-171.

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Parasites of Plunder?’ Review of Götz Aly, Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State

(Metropolitan Books, New York, 2007), in The Nation, Vol. 284/2, 8/15 January 2007, pp. 23-8.

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‘The forgotten people of the Third Reich’. Review of Jill Stephenson, Hitler’s Home Front

(Hambledon, London, 2006), in BBC History Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 2 (February, 2007), p. 59.

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‘Why It Happened the Way It Did’. Review of Ian Kershaw, Fateful Choices. Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941

(The Penguin Press, New York, 2007), in The Nation, Vol. 284, No. 22 (4 June, 2007), pp. 29-34.

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‘A three-way road straight to hell’. Review of Robert Gellately, Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe

(Cape, London, 2007), in The Times Higher Education Supplement, 7 December 2007, pp. 24-25.

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‘Immoral Rearmament’. Review of Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction. The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy

(Viking, 2006), in The New York Review of Books, Vol. LIV, No. 20 (20 December 2007), pp. 76-81.

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‘All Hailed: The Meaning of the Hitler Salute’. Review of The Hitler Salute, by Tilman Allert

(Metropolitan Books, New York, April 2008), in The New York Sun, 16 April 2008.

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‘How Willing Were They?’ Review of Peter Fritsche, Life and Death in the Third Reich,

(Harvard University Press, 2008) and Gordon J. Horwitz, Ghettostadt: Lódz and the Making of a Nazi City (Harvard University Press, 2008), in The New York Review of Books Vol. LV, Number 11 (26 June 2008), pp. 59-61.

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Review of Robert P. Stephens, Germans on Drugs

(Michigan University Press, Ann Arbor, 2007) in Central European History Vol. 41 (2008), pp. 338-40.

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‘Let’s Learn from the English’. Review of Mark Mazower, Hitler’s Empire

(Penguin/Allen Lane, 2008), in London Review of Books Vol. 30, No. 18 (25 September 2008), pp. 25-6.

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Review of Timothy W. Ryback, Hitler’s Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life

(Bodley Head, 2008), in History Today, Voll. 89 no. 4 (April, 2009), p. 62.

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‘After the War, the Fightback’. Review of Richard Bessel, Germany 1945: From War to Peace

(Simon and Schuster, London, 2009), in The Mail on Sunday, 5 April 2009, Culture section, page 10.

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‘Brutal pruning of the White Rose’. Review of Frank McDonough, Sophie Scholl: The Real Story of the Woman who Defied Hitler

(The History Press, 2009), in The Times Higher Education Supplement, 9 April 2009, pp. 50-1.

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‘Tank traps’. Review of Andrew Roberts, The Storm of War. A New History of the Second World War

(Allen Lane, 2009), in The Times Literary Supplement, 21/28 August 2009, pp. 9-10.

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Review of Cora S Goldstein, Capturing the German Eye. American Visual Propaganda in Occupied Gernany

(University of Chicago Press, 2009), in History Today, September 2009, pp. 62-3.

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‘Cite Ourselves!’. Review of André Burguiére, The Annales School. An Intellectual History

(Cornell University Press, 2009), in The London Review of Book,, Vol. 31, No. 23 (3 December 2009), pp. 12-14.

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Review of Ortwin Pelc and Susanne Grötz (eds.), Konstrukteur der modernen Stadt. William Lindley in Hamburg und Europa 1808-1900

(Munich, Dölling & Dölling, 2008), in Zeitschrift des Vereins für Hamburgische Geschichte Vol. 95 (2009), pp. 252-4.

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‘Shattering Effects of Hateful Deeds’. Review of Alan E. Steinweis, Kristallnacht 1938

(Harvard University Press, 2009), in The Times Higher Education Supplement 11-17 March 2010, pp. 54-5.

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Review of Hans Magnus Enzensberger, The Silences of Hammerstein. A German Story

(Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2009), in History Today, 60/8 (August 2010), p. 60.

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‘Hitler’s little helper’. Review of Adrian Weale, The SS: A New History

(Little, Brown, 2010), in New Statesman, 23 August 2010, pp. 50-51.

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‘Who remembers the Poles?’ Review of Tim Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin

(Bodley Head, London, 2010), in London Review of Books, Vol. 32, No. 21, November 2010, pp. 21-22.

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‘The Scramble for Europe’. Review of Shelley Baranowski, Nazi Empire: German Colonialism and Imperialism from Bismarck to Hitler

(Cambridge University Press, New York, 2010), in London Review of Books Vol. 33, No. 4, 3 February 2011, pp. 17-19.

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Review of John Lukacs, The Future of History

(Yale UP, New Haven, May 2011), in The Times Higher Education Supplement 9 June 2011, p. 59.

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‘Adolf and Eva’. Review of Heike B. Görtemaker, Eva Braun: Life with Hitler

(Knopf, New York, 2011) in The National Interest 115 (Sept/Oct 2011), pp. 76-86.

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‘The Mistakes’. Review of Zara Steiner, The Triumph of the Dark: European International History 1933-1939

(Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011), in The Book. An Online Review at The New Republic 1 September 2001.

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‘Into Dust’. Review of Ian Kershaw, The End Hitler’s Germany 1944-45

(Allen Lane/Penguin, 2011), in The London Review of Books, Vol. 33 No. 17 (8 September 2011), pp. 11-13.

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‘Blueprint for a perfect Nazi’. Review of Robert Gerwarth, Hitler’s Hangman. The Life of Heydrich.

(Yale UP, 2011), in The Times Higher Education Supplement 2,019 (6-12 October 2011), pp. 52-53.

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Review of Patrick Salmon et al. (eds.), Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series III, Volume VII””: German Unification 1989-1990

(London, FCO/Routledge, 2010), in Diplomacy and Statecraft, Vol. 22, No. 3 (September 2011), pp. 52-53.

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‘The Road to Slaughter’. Review of Sean McMeekin, The Russian Origins of the First World War

(Belknap Press, Harvard UP, 2011), in The New Republic: The Book (online, 5 December 2011).

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‘Spot and Sink’. Review of David Stevenson, With Our Backs to the Wall. Victory and Defeat in 1918

(Penguin/Allen Lane, 2011), in The London Review of Books, 33/24 (15 December 2011), pp. 31-2.

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‘The killing machine’. Review of Peter Longerich, Heinrich Himmler: A Life

(Oxford University Press, 2011), in The New Statesman, 19 December 2011-1 January 2012, pp. 80-1.

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‘Gruesomeness is my policy’ Review of Sebastian Conrad, German Colonialism: A Short History

(Cambridge University Press, 2011), in London Review of Books 34/3 (9 February 2012), pp. 35-7.

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‘Führer fictions’. Review of A. N. Wilson, Hitler: A Short Biography

(Harper Press, 2012), in The New Statesman 12 March 2012, pp. 45-47.

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‘Food Fights’. Review of Lizzie Collingham, The Taste of War

(Penguin Press, New York, 2012) in The Nation, 16 April 2012, pp. 27-32.

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‘Defeat Out of Victory’. Review of David Stahel, Kiev 1941: Hitler’s Battle for Supremacy in the East

(Cambridge University Press, 2012), in The New Republic: The Book, 26 April 2012.

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‘Nothing They Wouldn’t Do’. Review of Harold James, Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firmi

(Princeton UP, 2012), in The London Review of Books Vol. 34 No. 12 (21 June 2012), pp. 21-24.

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‘The Life and Death of a Capital’. Review of Thomas Friedrich, Hitler’s Berlin: Abused City

(Yale University Press), in The New Republic: The Book (27 September 2012).

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‘The Truth About World War II’.

Review of Antony Beevor, The Second World War (Little, Brown) and Geoffrey Roberts, Stalin’s General (Random House), in The New York Review of Books LIX/15 (11 October, 2012), pp. 52-56. German edition (Beevor only) in Süddeutsche Zeitung, 30 September 2014.

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Prophet in a Tuxedo’. Review of Shulamit Volkov, Walther Rathenau: Weimar’s Fallen Statesman (

Yale UP, 2012), in The London Review of Books Vol. 34 No. 22 (22 November 2012), pp. 20-22.

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