Question for German historians: are there any English-language journal articles or book chapters on memory of the Nazi period and the Eagle’s Nest/Berchtesgaden that would be appropriate for an undergrad class? 🗃️ #skystorians
Jeff Rutherford
@jeffcrutherford.bsky.social
Historian of Modern Germany, the Second World War, and the German Army. Research focus on the German army's ideological, operational, and economic war against the Soviet Union. Teaches at Xavier University. Hook'em.
Out Now: Breaking Rommel - The Struggle for Air Supremacy over El Alamein, July 1942. This post contains order information, a sample chapter, overview map, the index and list of tables, photos, plates and figures. @rgpoulussen.bsky.social @garius.bsky.social @cedricmas.bsky.social @ww2tv.bsky.social
OUT NOW: Breaking Rommel
Book Announcement – Breaking Rommel Available for Purchase Breaking Rommel: The Struggle for Air Supremacy over El Alamein is now available to purchase from IBN publishers in Rome, in time fo…
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@earlfckinweaver.bsky.social Thank you for bringing Opus, Steve Dallas, Bill the Cat and Company to my attention.
Spent years building up a big following on Twitter, essential for publicising my aviation blog, which I live from. Desperate to leave it & publicise on nicer platforms, but I have too few follows. If you want to help me escape, do give this a share. Much obliged. My blog here: hushkit.substack.com
If a historian doesn’t revise previous history in their research, then that research is pointless because the entire purpose of research is the creation of new knowledge. There would be no need for history at all if we just repeated the same ideas a nauseam without adding any new information.
I was interviewed about my book, Latvian Soldiers of World War II: Fighting for the Homeland in Nazi and Soviet Service. My thanks to @peripheralhist.bsky.social for the thoughtful questions and the chance to share my thoughts! bsky.app/profile/peri...
Peripheral Histories?@peripheralhist.bsky.social · 3mo agoFor all those interested in the history of the Second World War and Latvia, we have a new author interview for you. Check out our conversation with @harrymerritt.bsky.social on his recently-published book 'Latvian Soldiers of World War II' www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/latvian...
Just once I would like to hear a policymaker give a Memorial Day speech that reflected on the costs of sacrifice that included the admonition to think carefully and critically before putting our sons and daughters in harm’s way.
Nourishing Victory: Food Shortages and Post-Imperial Transition in the Bohemian Lands and Slovenia, edited by Václav Šmidrkal and me and published by @ceu-press.bsky.social will start shipping in about a week. At the same time, the open-access e-book will be available for download.
Nourishing Victory: Food Shortages and Post-Imperial Transition in the Bohemian Lands and Slovenia
An aggravating food shortage was the central internal crisis in Habsburg Austria during the First World War, and it posed a major challenge to the consolidation of the successor states. Nourishing Vic...
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So this is actually happening. @rgpoulussen.bsky.social @garius.bsky.social @cedricmas.bsky.social @ww2tv.bsky.social @ima-naval-history.bsky.social @airminded.org @smoorebofb1940.bsky.social @airpowerhistory.bsky.social @rafhistory.bsky.social @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social @karljames1945.bsky.social
Book Announcement – Breaking Rommel
Almost there!Well it has been a while that I had time to work on the blog, and the reason for this is below.We are about to hand our book Breaking Rommel, covering the airwar over the first battle …
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Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.
I have been thinking about how, in Asimov's "Foundation and Empire," the Mule’s empire collapses almost immediately after his death because it was built on a single person rather than a system, revealing his institutional impact as dependent entirely on its leader charismatic force.
Everything’s a conspiracy if you don’t understand how anything works.
Class in the US is entirely a matter of aesthetics now. Rich suburban kids are “country”. Beard Dudes who look like they love IPAs are “working class.” Teachers who make $32,000 a year but have to dress up sort of nice in JCPenney clothes are “elites“. None of these words mean anything anymore.
Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhat is it about oyster farming in the American imagination that makes a privately educated small businessman “working class”?
In short, I want a society which treats anti-intellectualism, from the anti-humanities 'that's just book learnin' sort to the anti-vaxxers, with the sort of searing cultural contempt those choices and ideologies deserve. Because a grown-ass adult who believes that should feel shamed.
Anna Bikont once gave a talk at Wheeling Jesuit University about her book on the killings in Jedwabne. After meticulously detailing what happened (& the cover up), she took questions. The first comment was “but we Poles are such a friendly people. We would never do that.” Kinda proved her point.
Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 4mo ago"In the Polish town of Jedwabne, where historians agree that townspeople killed most of their Jewish neighbors during World War II, a brand-new “information center” denies the crime." www.jpost.com/diaspora/ant...
"In the Polish town of Jedwabne, where historians agree that townspeople killed most of their Jewish neighbors during World War II, a brand-new “information center” denies the crime." www.jpost.com/diaspora/ant...
New ‘information center’ in Polish town denies murders of Jews in 1941 | The Jerusalem Post
The information center was installed earlier this month and celebrated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, which Wojciech Sumlinski, a right-wing Polish activist, shared online.
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On this day, in 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier.
We gotta bring back the productive kind of national shame. Not the throwing up your hands and going “what can you do, we suck” kind but the “I’ll be GODDAMNED if I let the fucking FRENCH have better TRAINS” kind
FYI Team #MilitaryHistory! Praise for @susangrunewald.bsky.social's book: an "important contribution to our understanding of WWII, the Soviet postwar recovery, the penal system(s) of the Soviet Union, & the Cold War" AND "a noteworthy piece of scholarship." www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
"So when someone proposes a war, remember that even the most necessary wars, even the rare wars where the lines of good and evil are clear and clean, end with a lot of people dead, a lot of people crippled, and a lot of orphans, widows and grieving parents. "
Paying someone to insert typos is the new humanities.
Celeste Pewter@celestepewter.bsky.social · 4mo agoI hate to add onto this, but there’s now a market for students - ESPECIALLY PhD students - who use AI to generate their work, and they pay freelancers to humanize it. I report the posts when I see them. It is - to borrow a phrase from this thread - endlessly heartbreaking.
"A mind tutored by history and literature knows that actors in the grip of a sacred cause tend to mean what they say — and that bombing a founding myth is more likely to consecrate it than to dissolve it."
"What this war exposes, then, is a failure not only of strategy but of literacy. Literature and history, at their most serious, train precisely the faculties these leaders lack: the capacity to grant that other minds are not transparent to us, and are governed by purposes not our own."
If you're looking for some recent work on the German-Soviet War (and really, who isn't), Cornell University Press has a 40% off & free shipping sale right now. Enter 09EXP40 for the sale price. @cornellupress.bsky.social @bethanywasik.bsky.social www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
The German-Soviet War by edited by Jeff Rutherford and Robert von Maier | Hardcover | Cornell University Press
The German-Soviet War revises the conflict's generally accepted understanding through case studies, demonstrating the complexity of the war at the local level. The contributors assembled by Jeff Ruthe...
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The daily financial cost argument makes me sick. There are other fundamental costs not covered by reporting.
Hupple’s Cat@hupplescat.bsky.social · 5mo ago“For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.” - Joseph Heller
I will say one thing: nothing demonstrates the value of military history, the staff and war colleges, and reading military theory like watching a war conducted by a bunch of guys who skipped all of that in favor of 'manliness' and push-ups.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoHegseth: "President Trump holds the cards. He'll determine the pace, tempo, timing of this conflict. His hand firmly on the wheel as well as on the throttle setting ... today will be yet again the highest volume of strikes America has put over the skies of Iran and Tehran. Ramping up and only up."