Discussion Threads

 

At times, individual posts to H-German generate more expansive threads. Some of those discussions have entered in substantial ways into a broader historiography and appear regularly in classes and seminars throughout North America. We include here a selection of those discussions on this page. If you feel that a thread has been omitted, please contact the Editors.
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Recent and often cited H-German discussion threads
	Ostalgie (October 2007)
	Daniel J. Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners (April 1996)
	Postmodernism Debate(August/September/October 1995)
The following is a small, thematically organized selection of the discussions which have taken place on H-German. For more discussion threads, search the H-German Logs (search tools available at the H-German Home Page). Click HERE for a chronological listing of the topics.

Kaiserreich and Weimar Era	Nazism/Holocaust	Post-War Germany and Austria
Gender/Sexuality	Professional Issues	Teaching

Kaiserreich and Weimar Era

• Readings on German Nationalism (May 1994)
• German Colonialism in Africa and Mass Murder (September 1995)
• Black Soldiers in the Rhineland in the Weimar Republic (January 1996)
• Course on Comparative US-German Business History(February 1996)
• Kleinrentner in Weimar Germany (January 2000)

Nazism/Holocaust

• Nazi Sterilization and Marriage Policies, (August-September 1996)
• Masculinity under Fascism (November 1998)
• Sexuality in Nazi Germany (July 1999)
• Nazi Gun Control Laws (May 1995)
• 50th Anniversary of VE Day (Victimization, Dresden, POWs, etc.) (May 1995)
• What Novels & Films for Post-1939 History Course? (October 1995)
• Memoirs by Holocaust Perpetrators (November 1995)
• Sources on Nazi Germany in Eastern Europe/Osoby Archives(February 1996)
• Course on Comparative US-German Business History(February 1996)
• Daniel J. Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners (April 1996)
• Hitler Youth in Swabia(March 1997)
• Victor Klemperer Diaries (February-March 1999)
• Lebensborn Program (December 1999-March 2000)
• Wehrmacht Exhibit/ Crimes of the Wehrmacht (1995-2000)

Post-War Germany and Austria

• Ostalgie (October 2007)
• Literature on German Identity (November 1994)
• Research on the SPD and the United States (January 1995)
• German Unification 1989-1990: The Third Way(February 1995)
• 50th Anniversary of VE Day (Victimization, Dresden, POWs, etc.) (May 1995)
• Literature on Post-1945 German Culture(August 1995)
• "Radikalenerlaß" Declared Illegal (September 1995)
• What Novels & Films for Post-1939 History Course? (October 1995)
• Course on Comparative US-German Business History(February 1996)
• Masculinity in the GDR (and FRG) (February 2000)
• Jörg Haider (February-March 2000)

Gender/Sexuality

• Nazi Sterilization and Marriage Policies, (August-September 1996)
• Masculinity under Fascism (November 1998)
• Sexuality in Nazi Germany (July 1999)
• Masculinity in the GDR (and FRG) (February 2000)

Professional Issues

• E-Mail and Historians in Germany (September 1994)
• Transfer of Berlin Document Center to German Control (May 1994)
• Postmodernism Debate(August/September/October 1995)
• Possible Closing of the Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte (October 1996-March 1997)
• Foundation of Historical Society (May-September 1998)

Teaching

• Readings on German Nationalism (May 1994)
• What Novels & Films for Post-1939 History Course? (October 1995)
• Course on Comparative US-German Business History(February 1996)

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Chronological Listing of Topics

• Transfer of Berlin Document Center to German Control (May 1994)
• Nationalist Literature (May 1994)
• E-Mail and Historians in Germany (September 1994)
• Literature on German Identity (November 1994)
• Research on the SPD and the United States (January 1995)
• German Unification 1989-1990: The Third Way(February 1995)
• 50th Anniversary of VE Day (Victimization, Dresden, POWs, etc.) (May 1995)
• Nazi Gun Control Laws (May 1995)
• Postmodernism Debate(August/September/October 1995)
• Literature on Post-1945 German Culture(August 1995)
• German Colonialism in Africa and Mass Murder (September 1995)
• "Radikalenerlaß" Declared Illegal (September 1995)
• What Novels & Films for Post-1939 History Course? (October 1995)
• Memoirs by Holocaust Perpetrators (November 1995)
• Sources for Study of Black Soldiers in the Rhineland in the Weimar Republic (January 1996)
• Sources for Course on Comparative US-German Business History (February 1996)
• Sources on Nazi Germany in Eastern Europe/Osoby Archives(February 1996)
• Discussion Surrounding Daniel J. Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners (April 1996)
• Sources on Nazi Sterilization and Marriage Policies, (August-September 1996)
• Discussion Surrounding the Possible Closing of the Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte (October 1996-March 1997)
• Sources and Readings on the Hitler Youth in Swabia(March 1997)
• Foundation of Historical Society (May-September 1998)
• Masculinity under Fascism (November 1998)
• Victor Klemperer Diaries (February-March 1999)
• Sexuality in Nazi Germany (July 1999)
• Kleinrentner in Weimar Germany (January 2000)
• Lebensborn Program (December 1999-March 2000)
• Masculinity in the GDR (and FRG) (February 2000)
• Jörg Haider (February-March 2000)
• Wehrmacht Exhibit/ Crimes of the Wehrmacht (1995-2000)
• Ostalgie (October 2007)