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Cover of the book "Unter deutscher Besatzung".

Occupation was a Poison Effective within European Societies – An Interview with Tatjana Tönsmeyer on Everyday Life under German Occupation in WWII

Tatjana Tönsmeyer is a Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Wuppertal. She is one of the most prominent scholars on the history of the Second World War and of occupation in Europe during that period. She also works on the history of memory and the post-history of National Socialism, as well as on questions concerning statehood, supply, and security. She is particularly committed to developing an integrated history of Western and Eastern Europe in their transatlantic relations.

The Suppression and Misuses of Academic Freedom During the Nazi Regime

By Mitchell G. Ash. The freedom of science (Wissenschaftsfreiheit), or academic freedom, as it is called in English, has been addressed historically from multiple perspectives. In these remarks, I will focus on science and scholarship in one particularly infamous dictatorial regime.

“I’m interested in the movement of people with strange ideas” – 5in10 with Gregory Afinogenov

Gregory Afinogenov is an assistant professor of Imperial Russian History at Georgetown University and a Tandem Fellow in Global & Transregional History at the German Historical Institute Washington DC. He received his PhD in Russian history from Harvard University and his BA in history and philosophy from Fordham. His first book, “Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and the Pursuit of World Power in Imperial Russia”, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press in Spring 2020. More broadly, Afinogenov’s research deals with the international social and political consequences of knowledge-making, from cybernetics in the Soviet Union to pastoral poetry in eighteenth-century New York.