Book Reviews and
Review Essays

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

• pdf of my 2010 Gregor review
• $45/20 at amazon.com | Prof. Gregor's homepage atSouthhampton
• other reviews
  • by Stephen Brockmann in H-Urban (Jan. 2009)
  • by Roger Moorhouse in The Independent (March 22, 2009)
  • by R.G. Moeller (excerpt) in German History (March 2010)
  • by Edith Raim (excerpt) in Holo & Gen Studies (Fall 2010)

Stanislav Zámecnik, Das war Dachau
(Frankfurt: Fischer, 2007)
in: American Historical Review (Feb. 2008),

• pdf of 2008 Zamecnik review
• EUR 10,95 at amazon.de

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

• my web version of 2006 Barth review, with additional illustrations and links not in published version

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 [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

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

• text of 2002 Eder review

• text of 1997 Wolffsohn review

• 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."

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.

• text of 1996 Steinbacher review

"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, 1991
    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 Memory: 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

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

• 1995 H-German review of Hackett.
• See also Hackett's reply to my review, posted on Nov. 15, 1995.
• See also my review of the German translation
  in: Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 1997.