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A Paul Weber, The Reviewer, 1969
A. Paul Weber, "The Reviewer" (1969)

Book Reviews and
Review Essays

by Harold Marcuse
(professor of German history at UC Santa Barbara)

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created November 1997, updated 11/3/10

Listed in reverse chronological order. For a complete listing, see the Publications section of my CV.

1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 2002 | 2006 | 2008 | 2010

Zamecnik, Das war Dachau, cover

Neil Gregor, Haunted City: Nuremberg and the Nazi Past (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008)
in: American Historical Review (Oct. 2010),

Zamecnik, Das war Dachau, cover

Stanislav Zámecnik, Das war Dachau
(Frankfurt: Fischer, 2007)

in: American Historical Review (Feb. 2008),

Barth, Dolchstosslegenden (2003)

Boris Barth,
Dolchstosslegenden und politische Desintegration
: Das Trauma der deutschen Niederlage im Ersten Weltkrieg, 1914-1933
(Düsseldorf: Droste, 2003)
in: H-Net Reviews (Dec. 2006)
; H-German email, Dec. 4, 2006

Rebecca Wittmann,
Beyond Justice: The Auschwitz Trial

(Cambridge, MA: Harvard U.P., 2005)
in: American Historical Review (forthcoming 2006), pp.

  • text of 2006 Wittmann review Pendas, Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial[with substantial additional discussion of Devin Pendas, The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963-1965 (Cambridge, 2006)]
  • note 9/25/06: most of body text removed pending print publication in the AHR
cover of Eder, Fluechtige Heimat

Angelika Eder,
Flüchtige Heimat: Jüdische Displaced Persons in Landsberg am Lech, 1945 bis 1950

(Munich, 2001)
in: Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 42(2002), pp. 615-616

cover of Wolffsohn, Deutschlandakte
Michael Wolffsohn,
Die Deutschland-Akte: Juden und Deutsche in Ost und West,

in: German Studies Review 20:2(May 1997), 369f.
cover of Boyer/Geyer (eds.), resistance
John Boyer and Michael Geyer (eds.),
Resistance against the Third Reich, 1933- 1990
,
in: Journal of Modern History 68:1(March 1996), 249- 51.
  • review without notes.
  • One assertion is noted in a June 26, 2004 article about the 20 July 1944 movement is noted in the Belgian newspaper La Libre:
    "Le débat sur les motivations, en tout cas, n'est pas près de s'épuiser. Le professeur Harold Marcuse (Université de Californie) y est entré, déboulonnant la statue de Stauffenberg parce qu'il n'eut pas pour principal objectif de «sauver des Juifs». Son fils Franz Ludwig, 66 ans, a déclaré pour sa part au «Süddeutsche Zeitung» que son père et ses compagnons voulaient «stabiliser le pays et mettre fin à la guerre» et que les accusations d'antisémitisme portées contre eux sont «absurdes». L'historien allemand Joachim Fest confirme pour sa part que la révolte du colonel contre le régime national-socialiste commença dès 1938 et était inspirée par des critères moraux et religieux. Le passage à l'action clandestine se fit en 1942."
cover of Steinbacher, Dachau

Sybille Steinbacher,
Dachau: Die Stadt und das Konzentrationslager in der NS-Zeit
(Peter Lang, 1993, 1994),
reviewed for: Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 36(1996), 777-9.

cover of Gutmann and Berenbaum (eds.), Anatomy of Auschwitz
cover of Dwork and van Pelt, Auschwitz cover of Milton/Nowinsky, In Fitting Memory

"Architecture and Auschwitz," in: Journal of Architectural Education 49:2(Nov. 1995), 123-8.

  • text of review essay, without notes; PDF of original
  • review of five books:
    • Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp
      Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum, editors
      Indiana University Press, 1994
      638pp., ca. 55 drawings and photographs $39.95
    • Auschwitz, 1270-1995 (provisional title)
      Deborah Dwork and Robert-Jan van Pelt
      W.W. Norton, forthcoming 1995
      ca. 400pp., ca. 200 illustrations
    • In Fitting Memory: The Art and Politics of Holocaust Memorials
      Sybil Milton and Ira Nowinski
      Wayne State University Press, 1991Young, Texture
      341pp., 135 back and white plates $*** (cloth)
    • The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning
      James E. Young
      Yale University Press, 1993
      398 pp., numerous illustrations
      $40.00 (cloth), $20.00 (paper)
    • The Art of MemoryYoung, Holocaust Memorials: Holocaust Memorials in History
      James E. Young, editor
      The Jewish Museum, New York, 1994
      194 pp., numerous black and white and 28 color illustrations $32.00
  • Journal of Architectural Education website
cover of Hackett, Buchenwald

The Buchenwald Report, ed. by David Hackett,
in: H-German, H-Net Reviews, Oct. 13, 1995


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