Eric Kurlander
Biographic Data
| ID | 996767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Kurlander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Kurlander |
| SIGNATURE | KURLANDER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stetson University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1807-4249 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
In the Spirit That All Races Are Equal”? Alternative “Solutions” to the Jewish Question in Wartime Shanghai, 1939–1943
Current debates regarding the genesis of the “Final Solution” from the “Jewish Question” tend to fall into two broad paradigms. The first emphasizes the mutual interplay of the Third Reich’s radical anti-Semitic ideology with increasingly precarious socioeconomic and geopolitical circumstances in Central and Eastern Europe, punctuated by the outbreak of the Second World War. The second highlights the inherently genocidal nature of colonialism tra…
Christian Giudice. Occult Imperium: Arturo Reghini, Roman Traditionalism, and the Anti-Modern Reaction in Fascist Italy
Adolf Hitler: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works
Pelagianismus – eine konstruierte Häresie
Prelude to Genocide or Late-Stage “Territorialism”? The Nazi “Madagascar Plan” in Comparative and Colonial Context, 1936–1940
Most scholars argue that the “Madagascar Plan” constituted the penultimate stage in the development of the Nazi “Final Solution,” representing a commitment to physical attrition presaging outright extermination. The idea of mass Jewish resettlement in Madagascar or another African colonial territory was no Nazi invention, however. It had been broached by various parties since the late nineteenth century, not least of which the Poles, French, Brit…
British Christians and the Third Reich: Church, State, and the Judgement of Nations. By Andrew Chandler
Journal Article British Christians and the Third Reich: Church, State, and the Judgement of Nations. By Andrew Chandler Get access British Christians and the Third Reich: Church, State, and the Judgement of Nations. By Andrew Chandler. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 396pp. $120.00. Eric Kurlander Eric Kurlander Stetson University, DeLand, Florida, USA E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
Avant la « Solution finale ». Vers une histoire mondiale de la « Question juive » nazie, 1919-1945
When historians discuss the so-called “Jewish Question” (Judenfrage), it is almost always framed as a direct prelude to the “Final Solution” (Endlösung). By focusing on the Holocaust, it is often overlooked that the Final Solution emerged very late in the history of the Jewish Question. There was no comprehensive plan to murder European Jews until the start of Operation Reinhard in the winter and spring of 1941-1942, more than nine years after th…
A Response to the Review of Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich
Zur rechten Zeit: Wider die Rückkehr des Nationalismus
Nationalsozialistischer Märtyererkult: Sakralisierte Politik und Christentum im westfälischen Ruhrgebiet (1929–1939)
On 12 January 1934, Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess sent an order to all Reich officials, ‘I forbid that in the future any party offices approach the Catholic or Protestant Church to perform special [religious] services’ (p. 436). That Hess sent such a missive a full year after Hitler’s ‘seizure of power’ hints at two central themes in Sarah Thieme’s excellent new study of the Nazi ‘martyr cult’ in the Ruhr: First, at the Christian elements that inform…
Life and Times in Nazi Germany
In such a well-trammelled field as the Third Reich, finding and shedding light on aspects of social and cultural life ‘that are less well known’ (p. 2) is no small task; all the more impressive that the essays in this volume invariably succeed. To the degree that the ten chapters make a single argument, it is probably best articulated in Geoffrey Cocks’ third chapter on ‘Illness in the State of Health’: ‘while the Volksgemeinschaft was an actual …
Revisiting the "Nazi Occult": Histories, Realities, Legacies
New collection of essays promising to re-energize the debate on Nazism's occult roots and legacies and thus our understanding of German cultural and intellectual history over the past century. Scholars have debated the role of the occult in Nazism since it first appeared on the German political landscape in the 1920s. After 1945, a consensus held that occultism - an ostensibly anti-modern, irrational blend of pseudo-religious and -scientific prac…
Modern Occultism in Late Imperial Russia, by Julia Mannherz
Until recently, the historiography on European occultism has tended to emphasise its illiberal, obscurantist roots and legacies—often linking esotericism to the rise of fascism in Germany, anti-republican sentiment in France, or antipathies to sociopolitical reform in Great Britain. Beginning in the 1990s, a new wave of research on the European occult began to counter this orthodoxy, culminating in works such as Alex Owen’s The Place of Enchantme…
The Nazi Magicians’ Controversy: Enlightenment, “Border Science,” and Occultism in the Third Reich
Over the past two decades, a number of scholars have called into question the existence of any meaningful relationship between Nazism and the occult. This article paints a different picture. First, virtually all Nazi leaders appeared to recognize the widespread popularity of occult practices and “border-scientific” thinking across the German population and within the Nazi Party itself. Second, although Adolf Hitler's Reich Chancellery, Joseph Goe…
Intelligenz und Rasse: Franz Boas' psychologischer Antirassismus zwischen Amerika und Deutschland, 1920-1942
Journal Article Intelligenz und Rasse: Franz Boas’ psychologischer Antirassismus zwischen Amerika und Deutschland, 1920–1942 Get access Intelligenz und Rasse: Franz Boas’ psychologischer Antirassismus zwischen Amerika und Deutschland, 1920–1942. By Alexa Geisthövel. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. 2013. 325 pp. £25.44 (paperback). Eric Kurlander Eric Kurlander 1Stetson University *[email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxfor…
Deutsche Wege zur Erlosung: Formen des Religiosen im Nationalsozialismus
Journal Article Deutsche Wege zur Erlösung: Formen des Religiösen im Nationalsozialismus Get access Deutsche Wege zur Erlösung: Formen des Religiösen im Nationalsozialismus. By Klaus Vondung. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink. 2013. 155 pp. €17.90 (hardback). Eric Kurlander Eric Kurlander Stetson University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 32, Issue 2, June 2014, Pages 331–332, https://doi.org/…
Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India: Kindred Spirits in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Vermessen und Vernichten: Der NS-'Zigeunerforscher' Robert Ritter
The German neurologist, racial hygenicist and ‘Gypsy expert’, Robert Ritter, has not received as much attention as other Nazi doctors. And yet Ritter’s work at the Berlin Institute for Racial Hygiene played an important role in sponsoring the Third Reich’s murder of more than two hundred thousand Roma and Sinti during the Second World War. In re-evaluating Ritter’s life and career, Tobias Schmidt-Degenhard’s book represents neither a traditional …
Hitler's Monsters: The Occult Roots of Nazism and the Emergence of the Nazi 'Supernatural Imaginary
Journal Article Hitler's Monsters: The Occult Roots of Nazism and the Emergence of the Nazi 'Supernatural Imaginary' Get access Eric Kurlander Eric Kurlander Stetson University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 30, Issue 4, December 2012, Pages 528–549, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghs073 Published: 14 November 2012
Violence, Volksgemeinschaft and Empire: Interpreting the Third Reich in the Twenty-first Century
Tim Kirk, Nazi Germany, New York, Palgrave, 2007; 304 pp.; £19.99 pbk; ISBN 0333600738 Dietmar and Winfried Suss (eds), Das Dritte Reich: Eine Einfuhrung, Pantheon, 2008; 393 pp.; €14.95 pbk; ISBN 9783570550441 Roderick Stackelberg, Hitler's Germany: Origins , Interpretations , Legacies, London, Routledge, 2009; 416 pp.; £22.99 pbk; ISBN 04 1 53733 IX Peter Reichel, Harald Schmid and Peter Steinbach (eds), Der Nationalsozialismus: Die Zweite Gesc…
Between Detroit and Moscow”: A Left Liberal “Third Way” in the Third Reich
The nature and intentions of Nazi economic policy are once again being hotly contested, although on a new set of terms. No longer is the German bourgeoisie's complicity in the Nazi “seizure of power” or the capitalist underpinnings of Hitler's subsequent aggressions at the center of the discussion. Rather, recent scholarship has chosen to grapple more carefully with the dynamic interplay between economics, race, and social policy in the Third Rei…
The Price of Exclusion: Ethnicity, National Identity, and the Decline of German Liberalism, 1898-1933
New Approaches to Bourgeois Resistance in Germany and Austria, 1933–1945
Middle class Protestants and Catholics constituted the largest single constituency in the Third Reich, inclusive of Austria. Yet few historians in recent years have examined the role of bourgeois resistance. Rather, contemporary scholarship tends to emphasize the willingness of the German middle classes to accommodate National Socialism ( Anpassung ), focusing almost exclusively on working class, women's and minority opposition ( Resistenz or Ver…
Die Weimarer Republik: Portrait einer Epoche in Biographien
Nationalism, Ethnic Preoccupation, and the Decline of German Liberalism: A Silesian Case Study, 1898–1933
Additional informationNotes on contributorsEric KurlanderEric Kurlander is an assistant professor at Stetson University. The author would very much like to thank Dr. Charles Maier, Dr. Patrice Higonnet, David Meskill, and Julia Torrie, all of Harvard University, for reading and commenting upon an earlier version of this article. The author would especially like to thank his Doktorvater, Dr. David Blackbourn, without whose invaluable advice, comme…
Hitler's Monsters: The Occult Roots of Nazism and the Emergence of the Nazi 'Supernatural Imaginary
Journal Article Hitler's Monsters: The Occult Roots of Nazism and the Emergence of the Nazi 'Supernatural Imaginary' Get access Eric Kurlander Eric Kurlander Stetson University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 30, Issue 4, December 2012, Pages 528–549, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghs073 Published: 14 November 2012
Violence, Volksgemeinschaft and Empire: Interpreting the Third Reich in the Twenty-first Century
Tim Kirk, Nazi Germany, New York, Palgrave, 2007; 304 pp.; £19.99 pbk; ISBN 0333600738 Dietmar and Winfried Suss (eds), Das Dritte Reich: Eine Einfuhrung, Pantheon, 2008; 393 pp.; €14.95 pbk; ISBN 9783570550441 Roderick Stackelberg, Hitler's Germany: Origins , Interpretations , Legacies, London, Routledge, 2009; 416 pp.; £22.99 pbk; ISBN 04 1 53733 IX Peter Reichel, Harald Schmid and Peter Steinbach (eds), Der Nationalsozialismus: Die Zweite Gesc…
The Rise of Vo ̈lkisch-Nationalism and the Decline of German Liberalism: A Comparison of Liberal Political Cultures in Schleswig-Holstein and Silesia 1912-1924
Historians have tended to focus on political economic and political organisational factors in order to explain the rise of liberalism in the nineteenth century and the decline of liberalism in the twentieth. But these factors tell only part of the story, particularly in the German case. For the precipitous decline of German liberalism after 1890 cannot be understood without examining the rise of Austro-German völkisch (ethnic) nationalism in the …
Multicultural and assimilationist models of ethnopolitical integration in the context of the German Nordmark , 1890–1933
Nationalism, Ethnic Preoccupation, and the Decline of German Liberalism: A Silesian Case Study, 1898–1933
Additional informationNotes on contributorsEric KurlanderEric Kurlander is an assistant professor at Stetson University. The author would very much like to thank Dr. Charles Maier, Dr. Patrice Higonnet, David Meskill, and Julia Torrie, all of Harvard University, for reading and commenting upon an earlier version of this article. The author would especially like to thank his Doktorvater, Dr. David Blackbourn, without whose invaluable advice, comme…
Multicultural and assimilationist models of ethnopolitical integration in the context of the German Nordmark , 1890–1933
The Rise of Vo ̈lkisch-Nationalism and the Decline of German Liberalism: A Comparison of Liberal Political Cultures in Schleswig-Holstein and Silesia 1912-1924
Historians have tended to focus on political economic and political organisational factors in order to explain the rise of liberalism in the nineteenth century and the decline of liberalism in the twentieth. But these factors tell only part of the story, particularly in the German case. For the precipitous decline of German liberalism after 1890 cannot be understood without examining the rise of Austro-German völkisch (ethnic) nationalism in the …
Die Weimarer Republik: Portrait einer Epoche in Biographien
The Price of Exclusion: Ethnicity, National Identity, and the Decline of German Liberalism, 1898-1933
New Approaches to Bourgeois Resistance in Germany and Austria, 1933–1945
Middle class Protestants and Catholics constituted the largest single constituency in the Third Reich, inclusive of Austria. Yet few historians in recent years have examined the role of bourgeois resistance. Rather, contemporary scholarship tends to emphasize the willingness of the German middle classes to accommodate National Socialism ( Anpassung ), focusing almost exclusively on working class, women's and minority opposition ( Resistenz or Ver…
Violence, Volksgemeinschaft and Empire: Interpreting the Third Reich in the Twenty-first Century
Tim Kirk, Nazi Germany, New York, Palgrave, 2007; 304 pp.; £19.99 pbk; ISBN 0333600738 Dietmar and Winfried Suss (eds), Das Dritte Reich: Eine Einfuhrung, Pantheon, 2008; 393 pp.; €14.95 pbk; ISBN 9783570550441 Roderick Stackelberg, Hitler's Germany: Origins , Interpretations , Legacies, London, Routledge, 2009; 416 pp.; £22.99 pbk; ISBN 04 1 53733 IX Peter Reichel, Harald Schmid and Peter Steinbach (eds), Der Nationalsozialismus: Die Zweite Gesc…
Between Detroit and Moscow”: A Left Liberal “Third Way” in the Third Reich
The nature and intentions of Nazi economic policy are once again being hotly contested, although on a new set of terms. No longer is the German bourgeoisie's complicity in the Nazi “seizure of power” or the capitalist underpinnings of Hitler's subsequent aggressions at the center of the discussion. Rather, recent scholarship has chosen to grapple more carefully with the dynamic interplay between economics, race, and social policy in the Third Rei…
Hitler's Monsters: The Occult Roots of Nazism and the Emergence of the Nazi 'Supernatural Imaginary
Journal Article Hitler's Monsters: The Occult Roots of Nazism and the Emergence of the Nazi 'Supernatural Imaginary' Get access Eric Kurlander Eric Kurlander Stetson University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 30, Issue 4, December 2012, Pages 528–549, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghs073 Published: 14 November 2012
Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India: Kindred Spirits in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Vermessen und Vernichten: Der NS-'Zigeunerforscher' Robert Ritter
The German neurologist, racial hygenicist and ‘Gypsy expert’, Robert Ritter, has not received as much attention as other Nazi doctors. And yet Ritter’s work at the Berlin Institute for Racial Hygiene played an important role in sponsoring the Third Reich’s murder of more than two hundred thousand Roma and Sinti during the Second World War. In re-evaluating Ritter’s life and career, Tobias Schmidt-Degenhard’s book represents neither a traditional …
Intelligenz und Rasse: Franz Boas' psychologischer Antirassismus zwischen Amerika und Deutschland, 1920-1942
Journal Article Intelligenz und Rasse: Franz Boas’ psychologischer Antirassismus zwischen Amerika und Deutschland, 1920–1942 Get access Intelligenz und Rasse: Franz Boas’ psychologischer Antirassismus zwischen Amerika und Deutschland, 1920–1942. By Alexa Geisthövel. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. 2013. 325 pp. £25.44 (paperback). Eric Kurlander Eric Kurlander 1Stetson University *[email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxfor…
Deutsche Wege zur Erlosung: Formen des Religiosen im Nationalsozialismus
Journal Article Deutsche Wege zur Erlösung: Formen des Religiösen im Nationalsozialismus Get access Deutsche Wege zur Erlösung: Formen des Religiösen im Nationalsozialismus. By Klaus Vondung. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink. 2013. 155 pp. €17.90 (hardback). Eric Kurlander Eric Kurlander Stetson University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 32, Issue 2, June 2014, Pages 331–332, https://doi.org/…
Revisiting the "Nazi Occult": Histories, Realities, Legacies
New collection of essays promising to re-energize the debate on Nazism's occult roots and legacies and thus our understanding of German cultural and intellectual history over the past century. Scholars have debated the role of the occult in Nazism since it first appeared on the German political landscape in the 1920s. After 1945, a consensus held that occultism - an ostensibly anti-modern, irrational blend of pseudo-religious and -scientific prac…
Modern Occultism in Late Imperial Russia, by Julia Mannherz
Until recently, the historiography on European occultism has tended to emphasise its illiberal, obscurantist roots and legacies—often linking esotericism to the rise of fascism in Germany, anti-republican sentiment in France, or antipathies to sociopolitical reform in Great Britain. Beginning in the 1990s, a new wave of research on the European occult began to counter this orthodoxy, culminating in works such as Alex Owen’s The Place of Enchantme…
The Nazi Magicians’ Controversy: Enlightenment, “Border Science,” and Occultism in the Third Reich
Over the past two decades, a number of scholars have called into question the existence of any meaningful relationship between Nazism and the occult. This article paints a different picture. First, virtually all Nazi leaders appeared to recognize the widespread popularity of occult practices and “border-scientific” thinking across the German population and within the Nazi Party itself. Second, although Adolf Hitler's Reich Chancellery, Joseph Goe…
Life and Times in Nazi Germany
In such a well-trammelled field as the Third Reich, finding and shedding light on aspects of social and cultural life ‘that are less well known’ (p. 2) is no small task; all the more impressive that the essays in this volume invariably succeed. To the degree that the ten chapters make a single argument, it is probably best articulated in Geoffrey Cocks’ third chapter on ‘Illness in the State of Health’: ‘while the Volksgemeinschaft was an actual …
Nationalsozialistischer Märtyererkult: Sakralisierte Politik und Christentum im westfälischen Ruhrgebiet (1929–1939)
On 12 January 1934, Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess sent an order to all Reich officials, ‘I forbid that in the future any party offices approach the Catholic or Protestant Church to perform special [religious] services’ (p. 436). That Hess sent such a missive a full year after Hitler’s ‘seizure of power’ hints at two central themes in Sarah Thieme’s excellent new study of the Nazi ‘martyr cult’ in the Ruhr: First, at the Christian elements that inform…
A Response to the Review of Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich
Zur rechten Zeit: Wider die Rückkehr des Nationalismus
Avant la « Solution finale ». Vers une histoire mondiale de la « Question juive » nazie, 1919-1945
When historians discuss the so-called “Jewish Question” (Judenfrage), it is almost always framed as a direct prelude to the “Final Solution” (Endlösung). By focusing on the Holocaust, it is often overlooked that the Final Solution emerged very late in the history of the Jewish Question. There was no comprehensive plan to murder European Jews until the start of Operation Reinhard in the winter and spring of 1941-1942, more than nine years after th…
Pelagianismus – eine konstruierte Häresie
Prelude to Genocide or Late-Stage “Territorialism”? The Nazi “Madagascar Plan” in Comparative and Colonial Context, 1936–1940
Most scholars argue that the “Madagascar Plan” constituted the penultimate stage in the development of the Nazi “Final Solution,” representing a commitment to physical attrition presaging outright extermination. The idea of mass Jewish resettlement in Madagascar or another African colonial territory was no Nazi invention, however. It had been broached by various parties since the late nineteenth century, not least of which the Poles, French, Brit…
British Christians and the Third Reich: Church, State, and the Judgement of Nations. By Andrew Chandler
Journal Article British Christians and the Third Reich: Church, State, and the Judgement of Nations. By Andrew Chandler Get access British Christians and the Third Reich: Church, State, and the Judgement of Nations. By Andrew Chandler. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 396pp. $120.00. Eric Kurlander Eric Kurlander Stetson University, DeLand, Florida, USA E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
Christian Giudice. Occult Imperium: Arturo Reghini, Roman Traditionalism, and the Anti-Modern Reaction in Fascist Italy
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