Christian Gerlach
Biographic Data
| ID | 3910965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christian Gerlach |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christian |
| FAMILY NAME | Gerlach |
| SIGNATURE | GERLACH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bern |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3210-8767 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The face inversion effect or the face upright effect
The face inversion effect (FIE) refers to the observation that presenting stimuli upside-down impairs the processing of faces disproportionally more than other mono-oriented objects. This has been taken as evidence that processing of faces and objects differ qualitatively. However, nearly all FIE studies are based on comparing individuation of upright faces, which most people are rather good at, with individuation of objects most people are much …
On the Social History of Persecution
The Palgrave Handbook of Anti-Communist Persecutions
War and Memorials: The Second World War and Beyond
Politique alimentaire, faim et persécution des Juifs de 1939 à 1945: Résultats de la recherche
Masha Cerovic, Les enfants de Staline: La guerre des partisans soviétiques (1941‐1944)
The Soviet guerrilla movement was one of the strongest in history. Half a million fighters, who killed many tens of thousands of Germans, but also locals, derailed thousands of trains and demolished thousands of locomotives. Masha Cerovic provides a first‐rate, up‐to‐date history of their struggle. The strength of Cerovic’s study lies in its sources. While she rarely refers to postwar published memoirs, her work draws mainly on archival records o…
Claire Zalc et Tal Bruttmann (dir.) Microhistories of the Holocaust New York, Berghahn Books, 2017, IX-325 p
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Der Mord an den europäischen Juden: Ursachen, Ereignisse, Dimensionen
Christian Gerlach bietet mit diesem kompakten Überblick eine nach Themen geordnete Analyse der Verfolgung und Vernichtung der europäischen Juden und schließt zugleich eine Lücke. Seine Studie untersucht erstmals systematisch das Vorgehen nichtdeutscher Regierungen und Gesellschaften gegen Juden. So kann sie zeigen, dass der Mord an den europäischen Juden ein Prozess war, an dem sich viele Gruppen mit ganz unterschiedlichen Motiven beteiligt haben…
Christian Ingrao, La promesse de l’Est: Espérance nazie et génocide, 1939‐1943
Subject to Christian Ingrao’s book are Nazi imaginations of Eastern Europe in a future during and after Germanization. Among other aspects, he is interested in the emotions involved in this utopia. The volume deals with the essence of German ethnic policies in the East. The study starts with a chronological survey of Nazi plans for German settlement in Polish and Soviet areas and for the removal of local populations deemed undesirable. This is fo…
Holocaust Landscapes
This book offers a fresh view at the German persecution of European Jews by looking at spatial aspects. Drawing from a wide range of archives, it is primarily based on diaries and published memoirs of, and especially postwar interviews with, persecuted Jews, supplemented by scholarly literature. The author concentrates on demonstrating ‘the diverse range of victim experiences, spatial strategies of survival and the shifting landscapes of the Holo…
Globale Machtkonflikte und Kriege: Festschrift für Stig Förster zum 65. Geburtstag
Diese Festschrift ist dem Historiker Stig Förster gewidmet, der sich insbesondere in der modernen Militärgeschichte und der Imperialismusforschung einen Namen gemacht hat. Mit der Betonung globaler Prozesse und dem Einbezug außereuropäischer Akteure nahm Förster bereits zu Beginn der 1990er Jahre einige der Kernelemente der Globalgeschichte vorweg. In diesem Band werden seine beiden Forschungsgebiete durch namhafte Autorinnen und Autoren zusammen…
Forced labor, German violence and Jews
Many scholars have argued that the murder of Jews in Europe defied all economic logic, violated Nazi economic interests and contradicted their war effort. Blanket statements about, for example, the “fundamentally anti-economic character of the [Nazi] genocide” are popular but untenable. Others have offered arbitrary and contradictory interpretations about what had primacy – the war economy or racist ideology. This shows how problematic it is to a…
The Extermination of the European Jews
This major reinterpretation of the Holocaust surveys the destruction of the European Jews within the broader context of Nazi violence against other victim groups. Christian Gerlach offers a unique social history of mass violence which reveals why particular groups were persecuted and what it was that connected the fate of these groups and the policies against them. He explores the diverse ideological, political and economic motivations which lay …
En souvenir de David Cesarani
Mark Levene. The Crisis of Genocide , volume 1: Devastation: The European Rimlands, 1912–1938 .Mark Levene. The Crisis of Genocide , volume 2: Annihilation: The European Rimlands, 1939–1953
The study under review here is a synthesis that tries to integrate all of the events that Mark Levene regards as genocide, together with many other cases of mass violence, in much of Europe over more than forty years. Geographically the work concentrates on what Levene calls the European “rimlands”: the Balkans (minus much of Romania and Greece), Anatolia, the Caucasus, the Baltic region, Ukraine, Belarus, and parts of Poland. Yet at times the na…
Famine responses in the world food crisis 1972–5 and the World Food Conference of 1974
In the early 1970s, there was scarcity in the world grain market, soaring prices and famines in several countries of Asia and Africa. The commercial grain trade was expanded at the expense of food aid. After a brief look at policies addressing the situation in terms of modernised methods of agricultural production for small producers, the article sketches how such policies also affected relief efforts, from the low availability for food aid, the …
Annexations in Europe and the Persecution of Jews, 1939–1944
This contribution tries to explain why Jews were persecuted earlier or more fiercely in territories annexed by a state during World War II than in the mainland of that state. The case-studies covered are Nazi Germany, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and the USSR. It is argued that internationally, similar policies of incorporation, especially the replacement of existing elites and the process of bringing in new settlers, worked against the Jews. Asid…
Extremely Violent Societies: Mass Violence in the Twentieth-Century World
In this groundbreaking book Christian Gerlach traces the social roots of the extraordinary processes of human destruction involved in mass violence throughout the twentieth century. He argues that terms such as 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' are too narrow to explain the diverse motives and interests that cause violence to spread in varying forms and intensities. From killings and expulsions to enforced hunger, collective rape, strategic bombi…
State Violence – Violent Societies
The academic book market certainly does not lack scholarly analyses comparing Nazism and Stalinism, and, many of these analyses address the issue of mass violence, the topic of this essay. The particularly sensitive nature of our topic and the controversial outcomes of past attempts to compare German and Soviet violence require some specific methodological reflections. On this basis, we try to contribute to a new and perhaps more conciliatory app…
Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared
In essays written jointly by specialists on Soviet and German history, the contributors to this book rethink and rework the nature of Stalinism and Nazism and establish a new methodology for viewing their histories that goes well beyond the now-outdated twentieth-century models of totalitarianism, ideology, and personality. Doing the labor of comparison gives us the means to ascertain the historicity of the two extraordinary regimes and the wreck…
To ask other questions: Reply to Alex Hinton, Henry Huttenbach and Patrick Wolfe
Extremely violent societies: An Alternative to the Concept of Genocide
The Eichmann Interrogations in Holocaust Historiography
Journal Article The Eichmann Interrogations in Holocaust Historiography Get access Christian Gerlach Christian Gerlach Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 15, Issue 3, Winter 2001, Pages 428–452, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/15.3.428 Published: 01 March 2001
The Wannsee Conference, the Fate of German Jews, and Hitler's Decision in Principle to Exterminate All European Jews
The Eichmann Interrogations in Holocaust Historiography
Journal Article The Eichmann Interrogations in Holocaust Historiography Get access Christian Gerlach Christian Gerlach Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 15, Issue 3, Winter 2001, Pages 428–452, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/15.3.428 Published: 01 March 2001
Extremely violent societies: An Alternative to the Concept of Genocide
The Wannsee Conference, the Fate of German Jews, and Hitler's Decision in Principle to Exterminate All European Jews
Famine responses in the world food crisis 1972–5 and the World Food Conference of 1974
In the early 1970s, there was scarcity in the world grain market, soaring prices and famines in several countries of Asia and Africa. The commercial grain trade was expanded at the expense of food aid. After a brief look at policies addressing the situation in terms of modernised methods of agricultural production for small producers, the article sketches how such policies also affected relief efforts, from the low availability for food aid, the …
Christian Ingrao, La promesse de l’Est: Espérance nazie et génocide, 1939‐1943
Subject to Christian Ingrao’s book are Nazi imaginations of Eastern Europe in a future during and after Germanization. Among other aspects, he is interested in the emotions involved in this utopia. The volume deals with the essence of German ethnic policies in the East. The study starts with a chronological survey of Nazi plans for German settlement in Polish and Soviet areas and for the removal of local populations deemed undesirable. This is fo…
The Wannsee Conference, the Fate of German Jews, and Hitler's Decision in Principle to Exterminate All European Jews
The Eichmann Interrogations in Holocaust Historiography
Journal Article The Eichmann Interrogations in Holocaust Historiography Get access Christian Gerlach Christian Gerlach Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 15, Issue 3, Winter 2001, Pages 428–452, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/15.3.428 Published: 01 March 2001
Extremely violent societies: An Alternative to the Concept of Genocide
To ask other questions: Reply to Alex Hinton, Henry Huttenbach and Patrick Wolfe
State Violence – Violent Societies
The academic book market certainly does not lack scholarly analyses comparing Nazism and Stalinism, and, many of these analyses address the issue of mass violence, the topic of this essay. The particularly sensitive nature of our topic and the controversial outcomes of past attempts to compare German and Soviet violence require some specific methodological reflections. On this basis, we try to contribute to a new and perhaps more conciliatory app…
Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared
In essays written jointly by specialists on Soviet and German history, the contributors to this book rethink and rework the nature of Stalinism and Nazism and establish a new methodology for viewing their histories that goes well beyond the now-outdated twentieth-century models of totalitarianism, ideology, and personality. Doing the labor of comparison gives us the means to ascertain the historicity of the two extraordinary regimes and the wreck…
Extremely Violent Societies: Mass Violence in the Twentieth-Century World
In this groundbreaking book Christian Gerlach traces the social roots of the extraordinary processes of human destruction involved in mass violence throughout the twentieth century. He argues that terms such as 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' are too narrow to explain the diverse motives and interests that cause violence to spread in varying forms and intensities. From killings and expulsions to enforced hunger, collective rape, strategic bombi…
Annexations in Europe and the Persecution of Jews, 1939–1944
This contribution tries to explain why Jews were persecuted earlier or more fiercely in territories annexed by a state during World War II than in the mainland of that state. The case-studies covered are Nazi Germany, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and the USSR. It is argued that internationally, similar policies of incorporation, especially the replacement of existing elites and the process of bringing in new settlers, worked against the Jews. Asid…
Famine responses in the world food crisis 1972–5 and the World Food Conference of 1974
In the early 1970s, there was scarcity in the world grain market, soaring prices and famines in several countries of Asia and Africa. The commercial grain trade was expanded at the expense of food aid. After a brief look at policies addressing the situation in terms of modernised methods of agricultural production for small producers, the article sketches how such policies also affected relief efforts, from the low availability for food aid, the …
Globale Machtkonflikte und Kriege: Festschrift für Stig Förster zum 65. Geburtstag
Diese Festschrift ist dem Historiker Stig Förster gewidmet, der sich insbesondere in der modernen Militärgeschichte und der Imperialismusforschung einen Namen gemacht hat. Mit der Betonung globaler Prozesse und dem Einbezug außereuropäischer Akteure nahm Förster bereits zu Beginn der 1990er Jahre einige der Kernelemente der Globalgeschichte vorweg. In diesem Band werden seine beiden Forschungsgebiete durch namhafte Autorinnen und Autoren zusammen…
Forced labor, German violence and Jews
Many scholars have argued that the murder of Jews in Europe defied all economic logic, violated Nazi economic interests and contradicted their war effort. Blanket statements about, for example, the “fundamentally anti-economic character of the [Nazi] genocide” are popular but untenable. Others have offered arbitrary and contradictory interpretations about what had primacy – the war economy or racist ideology. This shows how problematic it is to a…
The Extermination of the European Jews
This major reinterpretation of the Holocaust surveys the destruction of the European Jews within the broader context of Nazi violence against other victim groups. Christian Gerlach offers a unique social history of mass violence which reveals why particular groups were persecuted and what it was that connected the fate of these groups and the policies against them. He explores the diverse ideological, political and economic motivations which lay …
En souvenir de David Cesarani
Mark Levene. The Crisis of Genocide , volume 1: Devastation: The European Rimlands, 1912–1938 .Mark Levene. The Crisis of Genocide , volume 2: Annihilation: The European Rimlands, 1939–1953
The study under review here is a synthesis that tries to integrate all of the events that Mark Levene regards as genocide, together with many other cases of mass violence, in much of Europe over more than forty years. Geographically the work concentrates on what Levene calls the European “rimlands”: the Balkans (minus much of Romania and Greece), Anatolia, the Caucasus, the Baltic region, Ukraine, Belarus, and parts of Poland. Yet at times the na…
Der Mord an den europäischen Juden: Ursachen, Ereignisse, Dimensionen
Christian Gerlach bietet mit diesem kompakten Überblick eine nach Themen geordnete Analyse der Verfolgung und Vernichtung der europäischen Juden und schließt zugleich eine Lücke. Seine Studie untersucht erstmals systematisch das Vorgehen nichtdeutscher Regierungen und Gesellschaften gegen Juden. So kann sie zeigen, dass der Mord an den europäischen Juden ein Prozess war, an dem sich viele Gruppen mit ganz unterschiedlichen Motiven beteiligt haben…
Christian Ingrao, La promesse de l’Est: Espérance nazie et génocide, 1939‐1943
Subject to Christian Ingrao’s book are Nazi imaginations of Eastern Europe in a future during and after Germanization. Among other aspects, he is interested in the emotions involved in this utopia. The volume deals with the essence of German ethnic policies in the East. The study starts with a chronological survey of Nazi plans for German settlement in Polish and Soviet areas and for the removal of local populations deemed undesirable. This is fo…
Holocaust Landscapes
This book offers a fresh view at the German persecution of European Jews by looking at spatial aspects. Drawing from a wide range of archives, it is primarily based on diaries and published memoirs of, and especially postwar interviews with, persecuted Jews, supplemented by scholarly literature. The author concentrates on demonstrating ‘the diverse range of victim experiences, spatial strategies of survival and the shifting landscapes of the Holo…
Politique alimentaire, faim et persécution des Juifs de 1939 à 1945: Résultats de la recherche
Masha Cerovic, Les enfants de Staline: La guerre des partisans soviétiques (1941‐1944)
The Soviet guerrilla movement was one of the strongest in history. Half a million fighters, who killed many tens of thousands of Germans, but also locals, derailed thousands of trains and demolished thousands of locomotives. Masha Cerovic provides a first‐rate, up‐to‐date history of their struggle. The strength of Cerovic’s study lies in its sources. While she rarely refers to postwar published memoirs, her work draws mainly on archival records o…
Claire Zalc et Tal Bruttmann (dir.) Microhistories of the Holocaust New York, Berghahn Books, 2017, IX-325 p
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
War and Memorials: The Second World War and Beyond
The Palgrave Handbook of Anti-Communist Persecutions
The face inversion effect or the face upright effect
The face inversion effect (FIE) refers to the observation that presenting stimuli upside-down impairs the processing of faces disproportionally more than other mono-oriented objects. This has been taken as evidence that processing of faces and objects differ qualitatively. However, nearly all FIE studies are based on comparing individuation of upright faces, which most people are rather good at, with individuation of objects most people are much …
On the Social History of Persecution
Political science (21 works) · Law (14 works) · History (13 works) · Nazism (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · European history and politics (7 works) · German (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Genocide (6 works) · Humanities (6 works)