Re. Susan Tananbaum's request for suggestions for her course "Europe,
1939 to present"
Here are some suggestions for stuff on Germany, Spain, Russia, and Italy
during World War II. Peukert is an excellent German historian whose
analysis of Nazi Germany is by far one of the best I have read. (For a
discussion of the historkerstreit about the legacy of Nazism and the
thorny problems of German identity and the writing of German history,
1945-1989, see Maier _The Unmasterable Past_)
Detlev Peukert Inside Nazi Germany
I. Deutscher _The Unfinished Revolution, 1917-1967_
R. Fraser, _Blood of Spain_
other things on Germany and the war:
J. Noakes and G. Pridham (eds.) _Nazism_, vol. 3: _Foreign Policy, War
and Racial Extermination_
If you want to talk about science under Hitler and/or Eugenics
experiments in the Nazi regime:
Alan Beyerchen, _Scientists Under Hitler_
Robert Proctor, _Racial Hygiene_
Robert Lifton, _The Nazi Doctors_
Sorry the suggestions are so German-heavy. I just recently completed my
field exams (one of which was in German History, so it is prevalent in my
mind).
Good Luck.
Nani Clow
Clow@fas.harvard.edu