Konrad H. Jarausch

A bracing corrective to predictions of the European Union’s decline, by a leading historian of modern Europe

The gripping stories of ordinary Germans who lived through World War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War partition—but also recovery, reunification, and rehabilitation

A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe that examines its unprecedented destruction—and abiding promise

Konrad H. Jarausch studies the social structure of the German university and the mentality of its students during the Imperial period as an example of a wider European academic desertion of liberalism. He finds that German higher...

An ordinary German soldier’s letters home from Poland and Russia during World War II

Broken glass, twisted beams, piles of debris--these are the early memories of the children who grew up amidst the ruins of the Third Reich. More than five decades later, German youth inhabit manicured suburbs and stroll along prosperous...