Kim Christian Priemel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1092021 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kim Christian Priemel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kim Christian |
| FAMILY NAME | Priemel |
| SIGNATURE | PRIEMEL K C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8375-7716 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
That Ain’t Working
The dividing line between work and non-work structures all contemporary European societies. Decisions on what work is done, by whom, at what price, and under which conditions, shape individual lives and underpin economic, political and social institutions through the production of wealth and inequality. If the dualism of work and non-work invests activities and interaction with meaning and value, producing cultural and social status along the way…
The Ghosts of Fleet Street
In the second half of the twentieth century, the British printing industry seemed to epitomise the United Kingdom’s status as the sick man of Europe, worn down by changing patterns of consumption, lagging technological modernisation and all-powerful trade unions. Especially the latter were more often than not seen as the problem, not the solution to the industry’s problems. An extravagant set of so-called restrictive practices, critics alleged, w…
In the Shadow of the Holocaust
Journal Article In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission, and the Search for Justice, by Michael Fleming Get access In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission, and the Search for Justice, by Michael Fleming (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022; pp. viii + 310. £75). Kim Christian Priemel Kim Christian Priemel University of Oslo, Norway [email protected] Se…
After Nuremberg
Trouver des chemins et poser des jalons. Le rôle de la Shoah dans les procès de Nuremberg et l’importance de Nuremberg pour la recherche sur la Shoah
L’importance des crimes génocidaires et en particulier de la Shoah au procès des tribunaux de Nuremberg est aujourd’hui encore controversée parmi les historiens. Si « Nuremberg » équivaut pour certains au point de départ de la recherche historique et pénale sur la Shoah, d’autres situent les crimes génocidaires dans l’ombre des autres chefs d’accusation. Cette contribution montre d’une part que la destruction des Juifs d’Europe marqua aussi bien …
Dorothee Wierling (red.)
In der Schwebe. Markt, Staat und Wettbewerb in Deutschland zwischen 1918 und 1948
Die erste Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts ist gerade in Deutschland von markanten politischen und ideologischen Brüchen gekennzeichnet, die sich tief in das kollektive Gedächtnis eingegraben haben, ohne aber unsere Wahrnehmung von Ökonomie und Staat im gleichen Zeitraum nachhaltig zu prägen. In vorliegendem Beitrag wird für einen Perspektivwechsel plädiert, um mittelfristig persistente Strukturen in den Debatten um das vermeintlich richtige Verhältni…
Powering Conquest
While German business’s complicity in Nazi-era crimes from “Aryanization” to forced labor and mass murder has been well documented by historical research, corporate expansion into occupied Europe has received much less attention. Beyond plundering and labor recruitment we still know little about what German companies actually did abroad and whether it mattered to the actual war effort. The present article follows several electrical and constructi…
Cunning Passages
Starting out from the question of how history and law relate to each other, the article traces the influence of historical interpretations in the making of the Nuremberg Trials, taking these as examples for transitional trials more generally. In trying to explain Germany's apparently aberrant historical evolution, special-path explanations forged by historians gained in prominence after 1933. Several schools of historical thought proved particula…
Reckonings
Early on in her magisterial account of how Nazi Germany’s crimes were dealt with, or indeed were not, Mary Fulbrook quotes Tadek, an autobiographical character in the writings of Auschwitz survivor Tadeusz Borowski. Victims, Tadek notes, do not want to see perpetrators brought to justice but to suffer unjustly: only this experience of unforeseeable, unaccountable and ultimately unredeemable torment would make them understand the depth of their ow…
J effrey K. O lick . The Sins of the Fathers
Readers of Jeffrey Olick’s new book on German politics of the past ought to beware: neither the title, The Sins of the Fathers: Germany, Memory, Method, nor the cover illustration is an entirely accurate indicator of what the volume is about. While the famous photo of West German chancellor Willy Brandt kneeling at the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto Uprising suggests that symbolic and performative aspects of commemoration will be investigated, …
East by South-East
The Betrayal
At the end of World War II the Allies faced a threefold challenge: how to punish perpetrators of appalling crimes for which the categories of 'genocide' and 'crimes against humanity' had to be coined; how to explain that these had been committed by Germany, of all nations; and how to reform Germans. The answer to this triple conundrum was the application of historical reasoning to legal procedure. In the Nuremberg trials held between 1945 and 194…
Beyond the Saturation Point of Horror. The Holocaust at Nuremberg Revisited
Beyond the Saturation Point of Horror. The Holocaust at Nuremberg Revisited
It has long been a matter of contention what role the Nuremberg Trials accorded to the murder of the European Jews. While especially early historiography considered the Allied war crimes proceedings the beginning of «Holocaust trials», a later generation of scholars would argue that the extermination of Europe’s Jews was both under- and misrepresented in the course of the 1945–1949 trials. The present article sets out to reconcile both views by p…
Völkerfreundschaft nach Bedarf
For good reasons, few people think of the GDR as an immigration country. With millions of its citizens voting with their feet until 1961, and the subsequent desperate efforts to literally climb the wall that separated the two German states, the migratory route led out of rather than into the GDR. And yet, there was significant immigration to socialist Germany, most obviously when it came to the millions of Soviet soldiers who were stationed there…
Occupying Ukraine
The attack against the Soviet Union was ideologically motivated, but the timing owed a great deal to military and economic considerations. German hopes largely focused on Ukraine, which was expected to be both a giant breadbasket and a reservoir of essential minerals. But plans for the economic exploitation of Ukraine were flawed from the beginning and remained inconsistent throughout the war. Substantial reconstruction efforts only began belated…
Littérature engagée
Believe and Destroy
Believe and Destroy: Intellectuals in the SS War Machine, by Christian Ingrao. London, Polity, 2013. ix, 432 pp. 25.00 [pounds sterling] (cloth). Christian Ingrao's book on the Security Service's (SD) intellectual elite is welcome addition to the corpus of research on the SS and the politics of genocide that has grown so massively over the past two decades. Ingrao, author of study of the Brigade Dirlewanger, is expert in the field and he sets out…
Spekulation Als Gegenstand Historischer Forschung
Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich
A Story of Betrayal”
Consigning Justice to History
This article reviews recent historical investigations of transitional trials held after the Second World War. It identifies three main strands of historiography. One group of studies has been dominated by the trials' participants who have shaped the perception of the trials' scope, their achievements, and their shortcomings, and pursued political, legal, or biographical agendas. A second group has treated the trials as a mere epilogue to the hist…
Twentieth Century Flick
Business history has long prospered in its institutional niche while remaining on the outer rim of contemporary history. The recent boom in German business history, though, has shown that the insights gained from economic and business studies add significantly to our knowledge of twentieth century history. Beyond National Socialism, which has attracted the lion’s share of both attention and funding, the analysis of corporate protagonists sheds li…
Zeitgeschichte in der Welt der Sozialwissenschaften. Legitimität und Originalität einer Disziplin
Vorspann Seit die Zeitgeschichte die zweite Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts als Forschungsfeld erschlossen hat, steht sie mehr denn je vor der Herausforderung, wie sie mit den Deutungsangeboten der Sozialwissenschaften umgehen soll. Bloße Adaption oder selbstbewusste Behauptung und damit Beharrung auf den spezifischen Regeln, die der Zeitgeschichte eigen sind? Rüdiger Graf und Kim Priemel, Protagonisten einer gegenwartsnahen Zeitgeschichte, stellen s…
Der Flick-Konzern im Dritten Reich
Der Flick-Konzern steht wie kein anderes Unternehmen für die enge Verbindung zwischen Wirtschaft und NS-Regime. Sein Wachstum wurde während des Dritten Reiches von kaum einem Unternehmen übertroffen. Er profitierte in großem Ausmaß von "Arisierungen", war einer der bedeutendsten Rüstungsproduzenten und beschäftigte zehntausende Zwangsarbeiter. Die Führungsfiguren des Konzerns wurden dafür vor dem Internationalen Militärtribunal im Rahmen der Nürn…
A Story of Betrayal”
Consigning Justice to History
This article reviews recent historical investigations of transitional trials held after the Second World War. It identifies three main strands of historiography. One group of studies has been dominated by the trials' participants who have shaped the perception of the trials' scope, their achievements, and their shortcomings, and pursued political, legal, or biographical agendas. A second group has treated the trials as a mere epilogue to the hist…
Twentieth Century Flick
Business history has long prospered in its institutional niche while remaining on the outer rim of contemporary history. The recent boom in German business history, though, has shown that the insights gained from economic and business studies add significantly to our knowledge of twentieth century history. Beyond National Socialism, which has attracted the lion’s share of both attention and funding, the analysis of corporate protagonists sheds li…
Beyond the Saturation Point of Horror. The Holocaust at Nuremberg Revisited
Occupying Ukraine
The attack against the Soviet Union was ideologically motivated, but the timing owed a great deal to military and economic considerations. German hopes largely focused on Ukraine, which was expected to be both a giant breadbasket and a reservoir of essential minerals. But plans for the economic exploitation of Ukraine were flawed from the beginning and remained inconsistent throughout the war. Substantial reconstruction efforts only began belated…
Politik als produktive Kraft? Die „Gelsenberg-Affäre“ und die Krise des Flick-Konzerns (1931/32)
The “Gelsenberg-Affair” is one of the most famous German business scandals. In May 1932, Friedrich Flick and the German government placed a secret contract by which Flick sold the majority of the second largest steal company of the world, the so-called German Steeltrust, to the German government. The only purpose of this deal was the survival of Flick’s insolvent holdingcompany Charlottenhuette. Hence, it was correctly interpreted as an ‘impermis…
Der Flick-Konzern im Dritten Reich
Der Flick-Konzern steht wie kein anderes Unternehmen für die enge Verbindung zwischen Wirtschaft und NS-Regime. Sein Wachstum wurde während des Dritten Reiches von kaum einem Unternehmen übertroffen. Er profitierte in großem Ausmaß von "Arisierungen", war einer der bedeutendsten Rüstungsproduzenten und beschäftigte zehntausende Zwangsarbeiter. Die Führungsfiguren des Konzerns wurden dafür vor dem Internationalen Militärtribunal im Rahmen der Nürn…
Finis Imperii
In 1945/46, the Flick combine - one of the foremost German industrial enterprises - came under severe pressure due to strategic bombardment and Allied occupation. The breakdown of public infrastructure and the replacement of local managers led to an interruption of information flow between top management, executive boards, and operational units. The article argues that the organisational pattern the Flick combine was built on, i.e. a rather loose…
Into the grey zone
In 1941, German troops occupied the city of Vilnius. Mass killings started immediately, reducing the Jewish population by 70% by the end of the year. In the following two years, genocidal action ceased nearly altogether due to the effects of increasing labor shortages. Since neither Soviet POWs nor Lithuanian gentiles were available in sufficient numbers, German offices had to resort to the remaining Jewish workforce. This article explores the ca…
Zeitgeschichte in der Welt der Sozialwissenschaften. Legitimität und Originalität einer Disziplin
Vorspann Seit die Zeitgeschichte die zweite Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts als Forschungsfeld erschlossen hat, steht sie mehr denn je vor der Herausforderung, wie sie mit den Deutungsangeboten der Sozialwissenschaften umgehen soll. Bloße Adaption oder selbstbewusste Behauptung und damit Beharrung auf den spezifischen Regeln, die der Zeitgeschichte eigen sind? Rüdiger Graf und Kim Priemel, Protagonisten einer gegenwartsnahen Zeitgeschichte, stellen s…
Twentieth Century Flick
Business history has long prospered in its institutional niche while remaining on the outer rim of contemporary history. The recent boom in German business history, though, has shown that the insights gained from economic and business studies add significantly to our knowledge of twentieth century history. Beyond National Socialism, which has attracted the lion’s share of both attention and funding, the analysis of corporate protagonists sheds li…
Spekulation Als Gegenstand Historischer Forschung
Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich
A Story of Betrayal”
Consigning Justice to History
This article reviews recent historical investigations of transitional trials held after the Second World War. It identifies three main strands of historiography. One group of studies has been dominated by the trials' participants who have shaped the perception of the trials' scope, their achievements, and their shortcomings, and pursued political, legal, or biographical agendas. A second group has treated the trials as a mere epilogue to the hist…
Littérature engagée
Believe and Destroy
Believe and Destroy: Intellectuals in the SS War Machine, by Christian Ingrao. London, Polity, 2013. ix, 432 pp. 25.00 [pounds sterling] (cloth). Christian Ingrao's book on the Security Service's (SD) intellectual elite is welcome addition to the corpus of research on the SS and the politics of genocide that has grown so massively over the past two decades. Ingrao, author of study of the Brigade Dirlewanger, is expert in the field and he sets out…
Occupying Ukraine
The attack against the Soviet Union was ideologically motivated, but the timing owed a great deal to military and economic considerations. German hopes largely focused on Ukraine, which was expected to be both a giant breadbasket and a reservoir of essential minerals. But plans for the economic exploitation of Ukraine were flawed from the beginning and remained inconsistent throughout the war. Substantial reconstruction efforts only began belated…
East by South-East
The Betrayal
At the end of World War II the Allies faced a threefold challenge: how to punish perpetrators of appalling crimes for which the categories of 'genocide' and 'crimes against humanity' had to be coined; how to explain that these had been committed by Germany, of all nations; and how to reform Germans. The answer to this triple conundrum was the application of historical reasoning to legal procedure. In the Nuremberg trials held between 1945 and 194…
Beyond the Saturation Point of Horror. The Holocaust at Nuremberg Revisited
Beyond the Saturation Point of Horror. The Holocaust at Nuremberg Revisited
It has long been a matter of contention what role the Nuremberg Trials accorded to the murder of the European Jews. While especially early historiography considered the Allied war crimes proceedings the beginning of «Holocaust trials», a later generation of scholars would argue that the extermination of Europe’s Jews was both under- and misrepresented in the course of the 1945–1949 trials. The present article sets out to reconcile both views by p…
Völkerfreundschaft nach Bedarf
For good reasons, few people think of the GDR as an immigration country. With millions of its citizens voting with their feet until 1961, and the subsequent desperate efforts to literally climb the wall that separated the two German states, the migratory route led out of rather than into the GDR. And yet, there was significant immigration to socialist Germany, most obviously when it came to the millions of Soviet soldiers who were stationed there…
J effrey K. O lick . The Sins of the Fathers
Readers of Jeffrey Olick’s new book on German politics of the past ought to beware: neither the title, The Sins of the Fathers: Germany, Memory, Method, nor the cover illustration is an entirely accurate indicator of what the volume is about. While the famous photo of West German chancellor Willy Brandt kneeling at the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto Uprising suggests that symbolic and performative aspects of commemoration will be investigated, …
Reckonings
Early on in her magisterial account of how Nazi Germany’s crimes were dealt with, or indeed were not, Mary Fulbrook quotes Tadek, an autobiographical character in the writings of Auschwitz survivor Tadeusz Borowski. Victims, Tadek notes, do not want to see perpetrators brought to justice but to suffer unjustly: only this experience of unforeseeable, unaccountable and ultimately unredeemable torment would make them understand the depth of their ow…
Cunning Passages
Starting out from the question of how history and law relate to each other, the article traces the influence of historical interpretations in the making of the Nuremberg Trials, taking these as examples for transitional trials more generally. In trying to explain Germany's apparently aberrant historical evolution, special-path explanations forged by historians gained in prominence after 1933. Several schools of historical thought proved particula…
In der Schwebe. Markt, Staat und Wettbewerb in Deutschland zwischen 1918 und 1948
Die erste Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts ist gerade in Deutschland von markanten politischen und ideologischen Brüchen gekennzeichnet, die sich tief in das kollektive Gedächtnis eingegraben haben, ohne aber unsere Wahrnehmung von Ökonomie und Staat im gleichen Zeitraum nachhaltig zu prägen. In vorliegendem Beitrag wird für einen Perspektivwechsel plädiert, um mittelfristig persistente Strukturen in den Debatten um das vermeintlich richtige Verhältni…
Powering Conquest
While German business’s complicity in Nazi-era crimes from “Aryanization” to forced labor and mass murder has been well documented by historical research, corporate expansion into occupied Europe has received much less attention. Beyond plundering and labor recruitment we still know little about what German companies actually did abroad and whether it mattered to the actual war effort. The present article follows several electrical and constructi…
Dorothee Wierling (red.)
Trouver des chemins et poser des jalons. Le rôle de la Shoah dans les procès de Nuremberg et l’importance de Nuremberg pour la recherche sur la Shoah
L’importance des crimes génocidaires et en particulier de la Shoah au procès des tribunaux de Nuremberg est aujourd’hui encore controversée parmi les historiens. Si « Nuremberg » équivaut pour certains au point de départ de la recherche historique et pénale sur la Shoah, d’autres situent les crimes génocidaires dans l’ombre des autres chefs d’accusation. Cette contribution montre d’une part que la destruction des Juifs d’Europe marqua aussi bien …
In the Shadow of the Holocaust
Journal Article In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission, and the Search for Justice, by Michael Fleming Get access In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission, and the Search for Justice, by Michael Fleming (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022; pp. viii + 310. £75). Kim Christian Priemel Kim Christian Priemel University of Oslo, Norway [email protected] Se…
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