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Highlights
Awarded the prize Geisteswissenschaften International for complete funding of the German-English translation
April 2010
Workaday Violence: Female SS Guards at Lublin/Majdanek Concentration Camp, 1942-1944
Cultural historian Elissa Mailänder Koslov retraces the work of female civilians employed by the SS as concentration camp guards in Lublin/Majdanek. Her reconstruction of motives and mechanisms probes how »ordinary« women could quickly adapt to a microcosm of violence, in which brutality was a ubiquitous element of workaday life.
September 2009
Warriors and Scholars: Herbert Marcuse and Cold War Culture
* Fraenkel Prize 2009 from the Wiener Library in London for an outstanding work in twentieth-century history
* Humboldt Prize 2009 from Humboldt University Berlin, honoring excellent studies by young scholars
September 2010
Limits to Killing in Today's Wars
War cannot be waged without killing. Yet even in antiquity, rules and customs of wartime conduct defined the limits to violence on the battlefield and, more recently, have been codified in international accords. But as legal scholar Gerd Hankel asserts, today’s wars differ fundamentally from those fought when the Hague and Geneva Conventions were negotiated. International accords and humanitarian law fail to deal adequately with the grey zones that have become characteristic of today’s war zones.
March 2011
Repressed Terror: History and Perceptions of Soviet Special Camps in Germany
Verdrängter Terror is the first historical study of Soviet special camps in Germany that offers a comprehensive account of the objectives of the camp system, the conditions and realities of internment, and the way German society has dealt with—and ignored—these sites of Stalinist terror to the present day.
March 2010