Thomas Kühne
Biographic Data
| ID | 1076540 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Kühne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Kühne |
| SIGNATURE | KÜHNE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clark University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Dieter Pohl, Nationalsozialistische Verbrechen 1939–1945. (Handbuch der deutschen Geschichte, Bd. 20.) Stuttgart, Klett-Cotta 2022
Alex J. Kay, Das Reich der Vernichtung. Eine Gesamtgeschichte des nationalsozialistischen Massenmordens. Darmstadt, wbg Theiss 2022
Documenting the Armenian Genocide
This open access book brings together contributions and reflections on the Armenian genocide and its victims, its perpetrators and its aftereffects
Martina Kessel, Gewalt und Gelächter. „Deutschsein“ 1914–1945. Stuttgart, Steiner 2019
Veronika Springmann, Gunst und Gewalt. Sport in nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern. Berlin, Metropol 2019
Article Veronika Springmann, Gunst und Gewalt. Sport in nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern. Berlin, Metropol 2019 was published on December 1, 2020 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 311, issue 3)
Heike B. Görtemaker, Hitlers Hofstaat. Der innere Kreis im Dritten Reich und danach. München, Beck 2019
Daniel Siemens, Sturmabteilung. Die Geschichte der SA. Berlin, Siedler 2019
René Schlott (Hrsg.), Raul Hilberg und die Holocaust-Historiographie. (Beiträge zur Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus, Bd. 35.) Göttingen, Wallstein 2019
Ian Rich. Holocaust Perpetrators of the German Police Battalions
Since Christopher Browning’s pathbreaking inquiry into the mindsets, the agency, and the decisions of a group of “ordinary men” who carried out the murder of tens of thousands Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland, historians have understood that not only a few evil SS men but a plethora of different people, including regular police officers, drafted soldiers, women, and non-Germans, engaged in the Holocaust. And historians have debated why these people d…
Marriage and Fatherhood in the Nazi SS by Amy Carney
CARNEY, Amy – Marriage and Fatherhood in the Nazi SS. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. Pp. 309. In August 1939, three weeks before Nazi Germany invaded Poland and started the Second World War, the official SS weekly Das Schwarze Korps (the black corps) published a generously illustrated two-page story about fatherhood titled “Is this unmanly?” In Nazi Germany, SS men embodied ultimate martial masculinity, and the article did not miss c…
Michael Marrus, Lessons of the Holocaust (Toronto
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Perpetrators
“We must look into the abyss to see beyond it,” psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton once stated, after dedicating decades to explaining why perpetrators of atrocities, massacres, and genocide did what they did. In this spirit, historians, sociologists, and, not least, psychologists have inquired into the actions, mindsets, and motivations of Holocaust perpetrators and published hundreds if not thousands of books and innumerous articles. Guenter Lewy’s…
Protean Masculinity, Hegemonic Masculinity
Hegemonic masculinity in Nazi Germany, as well as in many militarized societies around the globe, meant physical, emotional, and moral “hardness.” The ideal man, embodied by the soldier, was tough and aggressive, in control of his body, mind, and psyche. He did not hesitate to sacrifice life and limb on behalf of the Fatherland, or to subordinate his individuality under the command of a conformist group of comrades. Whereas many scholars have alr…
Introduction
Introduction to Volume 51, Issue 3 of Central European History, dedicated to Masculinity and the Third Reich
N icholas S targardt . The German War
Why did the Germans keep fighting in World War II when a disastrous defeat loomed, when their homelands were destroyed and tens of thousands of them died each day? What did they fight for? Why did they support a regime that perpetuated and orchestrated crimes against humanity of unforeseen dimensions? Questions like these have kept historians busy over decades and have prompted frequent polemics about the coercive power of the Nazi dictatorship a…
Belonging and Genocide
How could the German people have condoned and participated in the Holocaust? Thomas Kühne offers a provocative answer to this troubling question. He shows how the Nazis used the human desire for community to build a genocidal society.
The Rise and Fall of Comradeship
This is an innovative account of how the concept of comradeship shaped the actions, emotions and ideas of ordinary German soldiers across the two world wars and during the Holocaust. Using individual soldiers' diaries, personal letters and memoirs, Kühne reveals the ways in which soldiers' longing for community, and the practice of male bonding and togetherness, sustained the Third Reich's pursuit of war and genocide. Comradeship fuelled the sold…
Ordinary Women, and Not So Ordinary Women
Book review of Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower
Believe and destroy
Since the mid-1990s previously popular depictions of Nazi perpetrators as either pathological sadists or naive bureaucrats have been widely replaced by nuanced studies that inquire into social and
Großreinemachen im Osten’
Journal Article ‘Großreinemachen im Osten’: Feindbilder in deutschen Feldpostbriefen im Zweiten Weltkrieg Get access ‘Großreinemachen im Osten’: Feindbilder in deutschen Feldpostbriefen im Zweiten Weltkrieg . By Michaela Kipp . Frankfurt and New York : Campus Verlag . 2014 . 493 pp. €45.00 (paperback). Thomas Kühne Thomas Kühne Clark University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 33, Iss…
Waitman Wade Beorn. Marching into Darkness
Journal Article Waitman Wade Beorn. Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus. Get access Waitman Wade Beorn. Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. 314. $39.95. Thomas Kühne Thomas Kühne Clark University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 120, …
Colonialism and the Holocaust
This review article scrutinizes recent research into, and disputes about, continuities from European colonialism and imperialism in the nineteenth century to the Holocaust and to the Nazi conquest in Eastern Europe. Five different versions of this colonial paradigm of Holocaust and Nazi history are considered: Jürgen Zimmerer's argument about a particular German continuity from the pre-WWI genocide in Africa to the Nazi genocide; the notion of a …
GEOFFREY CAMPBELL COCKS. The State of Health
Journal Article Geoffrey Campbell Cocks. The State of Health: Illness in Nazi Germany. Get access Geoffrey Campbell Cocks. The State of Health: Illness in Nazi Germany.New York: Oxford University Press. 2012. Pp. xii, 291. $110.00. Thomas Kühne Thomas Kühne Clark University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 118, Issue 1, February 2013, Page 274, https://doi.org/10.1093/…
Todesraum
This article looks at the mass destruction that raged Europe from 1914 to 1945. The trauma of 1918, Germany's defeat and dissolution, would not stop haunting nationalist Germans until the Third Reich collapsed; many Germans took the legend of the stab in the back as a matter of fact, according to which a Jewish-communist conspiracy had betrayed the national cause and sold out the otherwise victorious army. This article further traces the Holocaus…
Great Men and Large Numbers
Scholarship is not only about gaining new insights or establishing accurate knowledge but also about struggling for political impact and for market shares – shares of public or private funds, of academic jobs, of quotations by peers, and of media performances. Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands fights for recentring contemporary European history. 1 No longer, his new book implies, should the centre of that history be Germany, which initiated two world w…
Jews in Post-Holocaust Germany, 1945-1953
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Hitler's African Victims
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Protean Masculinity, Hegemonic Masculinity
Hegemonic masculinity in Nazi Germany, as well as in many militarized societies around the globe, meant physical, emotional, and moral “hardness.” The ideal man, embodied by the soldier, was tough and aggressive, in control of his body, mind, and psyche. He did not hesitate to sacrifice life and limb on behalf of the Fatherland, or to subordinate his individuality under the command of a conformist group of comrades. Whereas many scholars have alr…
Introduction
Introduction to Volume 51, Issue 3 of Central European History, dedicated to Masculinity and the Third Reich
Great Men and Large Numbers
Scholarship is not only about gaining new insights or establishing accurate knowledge but also about struggling for political impact and for market shares – shares of public or private funds, of academic jobs, of quotations by peers, and of media performances. Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands fights for recentring contemporary European history. 1 No longer, his new book implies, should the centre of that history be Germany, which initiated two world w…
Documenting the Armenian Genocide
This open access book brings together contributions and reflections on the Armenian genocide and its victims, its perpetrators and its aftereffects
Believe and destroy
Since the mid-1990s previously popular depictions of Nazi perpetrators as either pathological sadists or naive bureaucrats have been widely replaced by nuanced studies that inquire into social and
Dreiklassenwahlrecht und Wahlkultur in Preussen 1867-1914
From a War Culture to a Peace Culture? Changing Political Mentalities in Germany after 1945
From a War Culture to a Peace Culture? Changing Political Mentalities in Germany after 1945: Arbeitskreis Historische Friedensforschung, Freudenberg, 5–7 November 1999 Thomas Kühne Thomas Kühne University of Bielefeld Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 18, Issue 2, April 2000, Pages 230–238, https://doi.org/10.1191/026635500673660357 Published: 01 April 2000
From a War Culture to a Peace Culture? Changing Political Mentalities in Germany after 1945
Nationalism and Historiography Get access Stefan Berger Stefan Berger University of Glamorgan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 18, Issue 2, April 2000, Pages 239–259, https://doi.org/10.1191/026635500668364802 Published: 01 April 2000
Kameradschaft
Jews in Post-Holocaust Germany, 1945-1953
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Honour and Violence
Genocidal violence evokes sophisticated scholarship and is attracting increasing public interest. This is true particularly in and with regard to Germany. The German military committed the genocide on the Herero and Nama people in South West Africa in 1904–07 and participated in the genocide (albeit obliquely) on the Armenians in 1915. Eventually, the whole German state and its society carried out mass murder in Europe on the Jews, the Gypsies an…
Hitler's African Victims
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Male Bonding and Shame Culture
Early in October 1941 Captain Friedrich Nöll was given an assignment which caused him grave disquiet. His battalion commander, Major Commichau, ordered him to shoot the entire Jewish population of the village of Krutscha in Russia — men, women and children. In this village to the west of Smolensk, to the rear of the German army, Nöll was in command of the 3rd company of the 1st battalion of the 691st infantry regiment. All three companies of the …
The Holocaust and Local History – An Introduction
This collection brings together a number of cutting edge Holocaust histories written by younger scholars and includes an introduction reflecting on the role of 'the local' in Holocaust studies. In doing so, the book emphasizes seeking local answers to global questions on the origins of genocide
Todesraum
This article looks at the mass destruction that raged Europe from 1914 to 1945. The trauma of 1918, Germany's defeat and dissolution, would not stop haunting nationalist Germans until the Third Reich collapsed; many Germans took the legend of the stab in the back as a matter of fact, according to which a Jewish-communist conspiracy had betrayed the national cause and sold out the otherwise victorious army. This article further traces the Holocaus…
Great Men and Large Numbers
Scholarship is not only about gaining new insights or establishing accurate knowledge but also about struggling for political impact and for market shares – shares of public or private funds, of academic jobs, of quotations by peers, and of media performances. Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands fights for recentring contemporary European history. 1 No longer, his new book implies, should the centre of that history be Germany, which initiated two world w…
Dissonant Lives
Mary Fulbrook is well known as one of the leading historians of the GDR and as the author of several well-established textbooks on twentieth-century German history. Taking up these interests, Dissonant Lives illustrates the variety of different subjective views and voices as represented in ego-documents, diaries, private letters, memoirs and interview records or transcripts, now relatively easily accessible in a wide range of archives in and even…
Colonialism and the Holocaust
This review article scrutinizes recent research into, and disputes about, continuities from European colonialism and imperialism in the nineteenth century to the Holocaust and to the Nazi conquest in Eastern Europe. Five different versions of this colonial paradigm of Holocaust and Nazi history are considered: Jürgen Zimmerer's argument about a particular German continuity from the pre-WWI genocide in Africa to the Nazi genocide; the notion of a …
GEOFFREY CAMPBELL COCKS. The State of Health
Journal Article Geoffrey Campbell Cocks. The State of Health: Illness in Nazi Germany. Get access Geoffrey Campbell Cocks. The State of Health: Illness in Nazi Germany.New York: Oxford University Press. 2012. Pp. xii, 291. $110.00. Thomas Kühne Thomas Kühne Clark University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 118, Issue 1, February 2013, Page 274, https://doi.org/10.1093/…
Believe and destroy
Since the mid-1990s previously popular depictions of Nazi perpetrators as either pathological sadists or naive bureaucrats have been widely replaced by nuanced studies that inquire into social and
Großreinemachen im Osten’
Journal Article ‘Großreinemachen im Osten’: Feindbilder in deutschen Feldpostbriefen im Zweiten Weltkrieg Get access ‘Großreinemachen im Osten’: Feindbilder in deutschen Feldpostbriefen im Zweiten Weltkrieg . By Michaela Kipp . Frankfurt and New York : Campus Verlag . 2014 . 493 pp. €45.00 (paperback). Thomas Kühne Thomas Kühne Clark University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 33, Iss…
Waitman Wade Beorn. Marching into Darkness
Journal Article Waitman Wade Beorn. Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus. Get access Waitman Wade Beorn. Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. 314. $39.95. Thomas Kühne Thomas Kühne Clark University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 120, …
Belonging and Genocide
How could the German people have condoned and participated in the Holocaust? Thomas Kühne offers a provocative answer to this troubling question. He shows how the Nazis used the human desire for community to build a genocidal society.
The Rise and Fall of Comradeship
This is an innovative account of how the concept of comradeship shaped the actions, emotions and ideas of ordinary German soldiers across the two world wars and during the Holocaust. Using individual soldiers' diaries, personal letters and memoirs, Kühne reveals the ways in which soldiers' longing for community, and the practice of male bonding and togetherness, sustained the Third Reich's pursuit of war and genocide. Comradeship fuelled the sold…
Ordinary Women, and Not So Ordinary Women
Book review of Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower
Perpetrators
“We must look into the abyss to see beyond it,” psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton once stated, after dedicating decades to explaining why perpetrators of atrocities, massacres, and genocide did what they did. In this spirit, historians, sociologists, and, not least, psychologists have inquired into the actions, mindsets, and motivations of Holocaust perpetrators and published hundreds if not thousands of books and innumerous articles. Guenter Lewy’s…
Protean Masculinity, Hegemonic Masculinity
Hegemonic masculinity in Nazi Germany, as well as in many militarized societies around the globe, meant physical, emotional, and moral “hardness.” The ideal man, embodied by the soldier, was tough and aggressive, in control of his body, mind, and psyche. He did not hesitate to sacrifice life and limb on behalf of the Fatherland, or to subordinate his individuality under the command of a conformist group of comrades. Whereas many scholars have alr…
Introduction
Introduction to Volume 51, Issue 3 of Central European History, dedicated to Masculinity and the Third Reich
N icholas S targardt . The German War
Why did the Germans keep fighting in World War II when a disastrous defeat loomed, when their homelands were destroyed and tens of thousands of them died each day? What did they fight for? Why did they support a regime that perpetuated and orchestrated crimes against humanity of unforeseen dimensions? Questions like these have kept historians busy over decades and have prompted frequent polemics about the coercive power of the Nazi dictatorship a…
Michael Marrus, Lessons of the Holocaust (Toronto
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Political science (25 works) · History (22 works) · European history and politics (21 works) · Law (19 works) · Sociology (15 works) · German (13 works) · German History and Society (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Archaeology (10 works) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (10 works)