Jeffry M Diefendorf

Biographic Data

ID710437
NAMEJeffry M Diefendorf
GIVEN NAMESJeffry M
FAMILY NAMEDiefendorf
SIGNATUREDIEFENDORF J M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of New Hampshire
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS38
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT36
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
H-INDEX2

  • Transnationalism and the German City

    J Diefendorf, Jeffry M Diefendorf et al.BOOKTransnationalism and the German…2014

  • Introduction Â

    Jeffry M Diefendorf, Janet WardCHAPTERTransnationalism and the German…2014

  • Memories of the Bombing of German Cities in World War II

    Jeffry M Diefendorf, J DiefendorfARTICLEGerman History2014

    In the late 1980s, some leading West German academics engaged in a well-publicized dispute about whether one might compare atrocities committed by the Nazis with acts committed by the Soviet Union, particularly the expulsion of millions of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe. This dispute helped reintroduce into academic and public discourse the consideration of Germans as wartime victims. For conservative politicians and scholars this was part of…

  • Urban Transportation Planning Influences and Legacies: Kurt Leibbrand, Germany's Acclaimed Postwar Traffic Planner

    Open AccessJeffry M DiefendorfARTICLEThe Journal of Transport History2014

    This article explores several dimensions of the work and career of Kurt Leibbrand, often considered the most influential German urban transportation planner after 1945. It examines some key ideas prevalent in his publications, such as his advocacy of the priority of transportation planning, hostility to citizen participation in planning, and rejection of pedestrian zones. In assessing his status, the paper discusses his contributions to traffic p…

  • American Policy and the Reconstruction of West Germany, 1945-1955

    Axel Frohn, Hermann-Josef Rupieper et al.BOOKAmerican Policy and the…2013

  • Cities into Battlefields: Metropolitan Scenarios, Experiences and Commemorations of Total War, ed. Stefan Goebel and Derek Keene

    Open AccessJeffry M DiefendorfARTICLEThe English Historical Review2013

    In their long and very interesting introductory chapter, the editors of this volume, Stefan Goebel and Derek Keene, seek to lay out a broad agenda for future research on the history of cities in the modern era of total war—an era that began in the nineteenth century and continues into the present. While they draw upon some of the arguments made in the eleven substantive chapters that follow, it is clear that they see these chapters primarily as e…

  • German Colonialism: Race, the Holocaust, and Postwar Germany

    Jeffry M DiefendorfARTICLEThe European Legacy2013

  • Warsaw as a Jewish City for Light Industry: A Solution to the "Problem" of Poland's Jews

    Jeffry M DiefendorfARTICLEHolocaust and Genocide Studies2010References: 1

    In December 1939, Dr. Hermann Lufft composed a remarkable memorandum proposing that all of the Jews in occupied Poland be relocated to Warsaw and that the city be transformed into a modern city of light industry, complete with new housing, schools, and parks. While this proposal did not influence Nazi Jewish policy, it illustrates both the wide range of thinking at the time about the problem of the Jews and the willingness of German intellectuals…

  • Architecture of Oppression: The SS, Forced Labor and the Nazi Monumental Building Economy

    Jeffry M Diefendorf, Paul B JaskotARTICLEGerman Studies Review2002

    This book re-evaluates the architectural history of Nazi Germany and looks at the development of the forced-labour concentration camp system. Through an analysis of such major Nazi building projects as the Nuremberg Party Rally Grounds and the rebuilding of Berlin, Jaskot ties together the development of the German building economy, state architectural goals and the rise of the SS as a political and economic force. As a result, The Architecture o…

  • The Third Reich: A New History

    Jeffry M DiefendorfARTICLEHolocaust and Genocide Studies2002

    1University of New Hampshire The Third Reich: A New History MichaelBurleigh New YorkHill and Wang 2000xxv + 965$18.00

  • War Damage in Western Europe: The Destruction of Historic Monuments during the Second World War

    Jeffry M Diefendorf, Nicola LambourneARTICLEThe Journal of Military History2001

    Wartime architectural damage is an area which has until now been subject more to a process of mythologization than to historical analysis - for most it means only Coventry, Dresden, and perhaps Bomber Harris. This fascinating new book attempts to counter this trend. Introducing the subject of wartime destruction of architecture and historic monuments, Nicola Lambourne compares the damage inflicted upon Germany, Britain and France and considers th…

  • European Urban Social History by the Numbers

    Open AccessJeffry M DiefendorfARTICLEJournal of Urban History2000

  • Berlin Irresistible: Explorations in Cultural and Politics

    Open AccessJeffry M DiefendorfARTICLEJournal of Urban History2000

  • American Policy and the Reconstruction of West Germany, 1945-1955

    Donald A Rakestraw, Jeffry M Diefendorf et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1995

    Journal Article American Policy and the Reconstruction of West Germany, 1945–1955. Ed. by Jeffry M. Diefendorf, Axel Frohn, and Hermann-Josef Rupieper. (Washington: German Historical Institute and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xx, 537 pp. $69.95, ISBN 0-521-43120-4.) Get access Donald A. Rakestraw Donald A. Rakestraw Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sch…

  • American Policy and the Reconstruction of West Germany, 1945–1955

    Open AccessJeffry M Diefendorf, Axel Frohn et al.BOOKAmerican Policy and the…1994

    This volume of twenty-three essays by German and American historians deals with the most important issues of US policy toward Germany in the decade following World War II: Germany's democratisation, economic recovery, rearmament, and integration into the European community and Western alliance. All contributions to this volume are based on recent research in German and American archives, and include two comprehensive essays on archival sources an…

  • America and the Rebuilding of Urban Germany

    Open AccessJeffry M DiefendorfCHAPTERAmerican Policy and the…1994

    American policy toward the rebuilding of the bombed German cities was far less dramatic than the policies that dealt with the political rehabilitation of West Germany, its rearmament and integration into NATO, or even its economic recovery. There was no consistent, high-level American policy on what, if anything, to do about helping the Germans repair the damage left by the war. In the end the Americans developed only what amounted to a relativel…

  • American Policy and the Reconstruction of West Germany, 1945-1955

    Fritz Stern, Jeffry M Diefendorf et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs1994Cited by: 4

    1. Introduction Jeffry Diefendorf and Hermann Josef Rupieper 2. Ripping holes in the Iron Curtain: the council of foreign relations and Germany, 1945-1950 Michael Wala 3. US policy on a West German constitution Erich J. Hahn 4. American policy toward German unification, 19490-1955 Hermann Josef Rupieper 5. Marshall Plan and currency reform Christopher Buchheim 6. American policy toward Germany and the integration of Europe, 1945-1955 Gunther Mai …

  • In the Wake of War: The Reconstruction of German Cities after World War II

    Jeffry M DiefendorfBOOKIn the wake of war1993

    This is the first comprehensive study of the rebuilding of West Germany’s cities following the Second World War. Most major urban centres had been reduced to rubble by the end of the war, yet they were rebuilt faster than anyone thought possible. Diefendorf presents a wealth of material on all aspects of reconstruction - from the bombing itself and removal of debris, to urban planning, architecture, and execution. Using the designs of city planne…

  • Rebuilding Europe's Bombed Cities

    Richard A Leiby, Jeffry M DiefendorfARTICLEGerman Studies Review1992

  • Urban Planning and Civic Order in Germany, 1860-1914

    Jeffry M Diefendorf, Brian LaddARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1992

  • From Domestic Manufacture to Industrial Revolution: The Case of the Rhineland Textile Districts

    Jeffry M Diefendorf, Herbert KischARTICLEGerman Studies Review1991

    This book is an economic, historical, and sociological examination of rural textile industries in the Lower Rhineland beginning in the sixteenth century and culminating with the age of factory organization in the early 1800s. Drawing on archival sources not available to English language readers, Kisch analyses the evolution of entrepreneurial innovations, the growth of a skilled labour force, and changes in institutional mechanisms and patterns o…

  • Artery: Urban Reconstruction and Traffic Planning in Postwar Germany

    Open AccessJeffry M DiefendorfARTICLEJournal of Urban History1989Cited by: 1

  • Urban Reconstruction in Europe After World War II

    Open AccessJeffry M DiefendorfARTICLEUrban Studies1989Cited by: 2

  • Vom Zwangsarbeiter zum Heimatlosen Auslander: Die Displaced Persons in Westdeutschland, 1945-1951. Wolfgang Jacobmeyer

    Jeffry M DiefendorfARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History1988

  • Under the Bombs: The German Home Front, 1942-1945

    Jeffry M Diefendorf, Earl R BeckARTICLEGerman Studies Review1987