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Claudia Koonz

Claudia Koonz

Peabody Family Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences
History
ckoonz@duke.edu
Dept of History, Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
226 Classroom Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

Donald Trump Must Face Federal Charges

Internet Publication · July 19, 2022 A look back at the Weimar Republic should teach us a lesson about bringing insurrectionists to justice ... Open Access Link to item Cite

Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the family and Nazi politics

Book · January 1, 2013 From extensive research, including a remarkable interview with the unrepentant chief of Hitler’s Women’s Bureau, this book traces the roles played by women - as followers, victims and resisters - in the rise of Nazism. Originally publishing in 1987, it is ... Full text Cite

Consensus Formation, Race, and Gender in Histories of National Socialist Germany

Chapter · 2010 Using mass dictatorship as a working hypothesis to comprehend support for dictatorship from below, this book concentrates on the gender politics deployed by dictatorial regimes such as Nazism, Stalinism, 'really existing socialism' in the GDR and People's ... Cite

Unmasking Multiculturalism: Muslim Memoirs Probe the Limits of Tolerance

Journal Article Berlin Journal · March 2006 Feminist authors of memoirs about their oppression under Muslim patriarchy have added credibility to the view that Islam cannot co-exist with Western values. Often their most vehement criticism fits easily with the intellectual projects of right wing polit ... Link to item Cite

The Nazi Conscience

Book · 2003 The author identifies the "ethnic fundamentalism" that infused Nazism, revealing the "conscience" and civic morality that founded the core of Nazi ideology, using a wide variety of sources to flesh out this controversial take on the Naz ... Cite

TRIED FOR THEIR CRIMES + KOONZ REVIEW OF SERENY - REPLY

Journal Article NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW · November 26, 1995 Link to item Cite

SPEER,ALBERT - HIS BATTLE WITH TRUTH - SERENY,G

Journal Article NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW · October 8, 1995 Link to item Cite

GOEBBELS - REUTH,RG

Journal Article NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW · January 16, 1994 Link to item Cite

WHEN WINTER COMES

Journal Article NATION · January 3, 1994 Link to item Cite

Between Memory and Oblivion: Concentration Camps and Public Controversy

Chapter · 1993 Memory is as central to modern politics as politics is central to modern memory. We are so accustomed to living in a forest of monuments, to having the past represented to us through museums, historic sites, and public sculpture, that we easily lose sight ... Cite

Ethical Dilemmas and Nazi Eugenics: Single-Issue Dissent in Religious Contexts

Journal Article The Journal of Modern History · December 1992 Full text Cite

WOMEN OF THE KLAN - RACISM AND GENDER IN THE 1920S - BLEE,KM

Journal Article NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW · January 5, 1992 Link to item Cite

RESPONSE TO BOCK,GISELA, REVIEW OF MOTHERS-IN-THE-FATHERLAND

Journal Article GESCHICHTE UND GESELLSCHAFT · January 1, 1992 Link to item Cite

Women of Exile: German-Jewish Autobiographies since 1933.

Journal Article The American Historical Review · April 1991 Full text Cite

FROM HITLER TO HEIMAT - THE RETURN OF HISTORY AS FILM - KAES,A

Journal Article NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW · January 14, 1990 Link to item Cite

FASCISM IN POPULAR MEMORY - THE CULTURAL EXPERIENCE OF THE TURIN WORKING-CLASS - PASSERINI,L

Journal Article INTERNATIONAL LABOR AND WORKING-CLASS HISTORY · 1989 Link to item Cite

Becoming Visible Women in European History

Book · 1987 Thematic emphases in this text include the contacts between European women and those outside European frontiers, sexuality and its importance for the construction of gender over the centuries, and the role of women in the great events and ... ... Cite

Das ,zweite' Geschlecht im ,Dritten Reich'

Journal Article Feministische Studien · November 1, 1986 Full text Cite

HIDDEN FROM HISTORY - REDISCOVERING WOMEN IN HISTORY FROM 17TH CENTURY TO PRESENT - ROWBOTHAM,S

Journal Article JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES · January 1, 1978 Link to item Cite

Becoming Visible Women in European History

Book · 1977 Thematic emphases in this text include the contacts between European women and those outside European frontiers, sexuality and its importance for the construction of gender over the centuries, and the role of women in the great events and ... ... Cite

Conflicting Allegiances: Political Ideology and Women Legislators in Weimar Germany

Journal Article Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society · April 1976 Full text Cite

NAZI WOMEN BEFORE 1933 - REBELS AGAINST EMANCIPATION

Journal Article SOCIAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY · January 1, 1976 Link to item Cite