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Geoffrey J. Giles Updated October 2010 Wolfgang Schütte, Regionalität und Föderalismus im Rundfunk: Die geschichtliche Entwicklung in Deutschland 1923-1945 (Frankfurt/Main, 1971), in Erasmus, 28, 15-16, August 1976. Michael H. Kater, Studentenschaft und Rechtsradikalismus in Deutschland 1918-1933: Eine sozialgeschichtliche Studie zur Bildungskrise in der Weimarer Republik (Hamburg, 1975), in The Historical Journal, 20, 2, June 1977. Michael S. Steinberg, Sabers and Brown Shirts: The German Students‟ Path to National Socialism 1918-1935 (Chicago, 1977), in German Studies Review, I, 1, February 1978. Reinhard Müth, Studentische Emanzipation und staatliche Repression: Die politische Bewegung der Tübinger Studenten im Vormärz, inbes. von 1825-1837 (Tübingen, 1977), in Erasmus, 30, 11, June 1978. Alan D. Beyerchen, Scientists Under Hitler: Politics and the Physics Community in the Third Reich (New Haven, 1977), in The Yale Review, LXVIII, 1, Autumn 1978. Gert-Joachim Glaessner und Irmhild Rudolph, Macht durch Wissen: Zum Zusammenhang von Bildungspolitik, Bildungssystem und Kaderqualifizierung in der DDR (Opladen, 1978), in GDR Bulletin, V, 3, Fall 1979. Eda Sagarra, A Social History of Germany 1648-1914 (London, 1977), in Social History Society Newsletter, 4, 2, Autumn 1979. Barbara Schellenberger, Katholische Jugend und Drittes Reich: Eine Geschichte des Katholischen Jungmännerverbandes 1933-1939 (Mainz, 1975), in German Studies Review, II, 3, October 1979. Uwe Dietrich Adam, Hochschule und Nationalsozialismus: Die Universität Tübingen im Dritten Reich (Tübingen, 1977), in German Studies Review, III, 1, February 1980. Helmut Neuhaus, Die Konstitutionen des Corps Teutonia zu Marburg: Untersuchungen zur Verfassungsgeschichte eines Kösener Corps in seiner 150jährigen Geschichte (Marburg/Lahn, 1979), in German Studies Review, III, 2, May 1980. Dieter Langewiesche, Zur Freizeit des Arbeiters: Bildungsstrebungen und Freizeitgestaltung österreichischer Arbeiter im Kaiserreich und in der ersten Republik (Stuttgart, 1979), in Journal of Modern History, 54, 1, March 1982.
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Walters Anders, et al., Staat und Gesellschaft in der DDR (Leipzig, 1981), in GDR Bulletin, VIII, 3, Fall 1982. Horst Uhlemann, et al., Bildung, Wissenschaft und kulturelles Leben in der DDR, (Leipzig, 1981), in GDR Bulletin, VIII, 3, Fall 1982. Detlev K. Müller, Sozialstruktur und Schulsystem: Aspekte zum Strukturwandel des Schulwesens im 19. Jahrhundert (Göttingen, 1977), in Journal of Modern History, 54, 4, December 1982. Margrete Siebert Klein, The Challenge of Communist Education: A Look at the German Democratic Republic (New York, 1980), in GDR Bulletin, VIII, 1, Winter 1982. Peter D. Stachura, The German Youth Movement 1900-1945 (New York, 1981), in The Historian, XLV, 2, February 1983. Konrad H. Jarausch, Students, Society and Politics in Imperial Germany: The Rise of Academic Illiberalism (Princeton, 1982), in German Studies Review, VI, 2, May 1983. Ian Kershaw, Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich: Bavaria 1933-1945 (Oxford, 1983), in German Studies Review, VII, 2, May 1984. Richard C. Murphy, Guestworkers in the German Reich: A Polish Community in Wilhelmian Germany (Boulder, 1983), in German Studies Review, VII, 3, October 1984. James F. Tent, Mission on the Rhine: Reeducation and Denazification in AmericanOccupied Germany (Chicago, 1982), in Comparative Education Review, 28, 4, November 1984. James S. Roberts, Drink, Temperance and the Working Class in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Boston, 1984), in British Journal of Addiction, 79, December 1984. Michael H. Kater, The Nazi Party: A Social Profile of Members and Leaders 1919-1945 (Cambridge/Mass.,1983), in German Studies Review, VIII, 1, February 1985. Arthur McCardle & A. Bruce Boenau (Eds.), East Germany: A New German Nation Under Socialism? (New York, 1984), in GDR Bulletin, XI, 2, Spring 1985. Oskar Anweiler & Friedrich Kuebart (Hrsg.), Bildungssysteme in Osteuropa: Reform oder Krise? (Berlin, 1984), in Comparative Education Review, 29, 3, August 1985. Christa Kamenetsky, Children‟s Literature in Nazi Germany: The Cultural Policy of National Socialism (Athens/Ohio, 1984), in Journal of Modern History, 57, 3, September 1985. Peter A. Clark, The English Alehouse: A Social History 1200-1830 (London & New York, 1983), in Social History of Alcohol Review, 12, Fall 1985.
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Jacques R. Pauwels, Women, Nazis, and Universities: Female University Students in the Third Reich 1933-1945 (Westport, 1984), in American Historical Review, 90, 4, October 1985. Val D. Rust, Education in East and West Germany: A Bibliography (New York, 1984), in Comparative Education Review, 29, 4, November 1985. David Hamilton, The Healers: A History of Medicine in Scotland (Edinburgh, 1981), in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, n.s.7, III, 1985. David Phillips, Zur Universitätsreform in der britischen Besatzungszone 1945-1948 (Köln & Wien, 1983), in Comparative Education Review, 30, 1, February 1986. W. Hermann Fahrenkrug, Alkohol, Individuum und Gesellschaft: Zur Sozialgeschichte des Alkoholproblems in den USA (Frankfurt & New York, 1984), in Contemporary Drug Problems, 13, 1, Spring 1986. Stephen Mennell, All Manners of Food: Eating and Taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to the Present (New York & Oxford, 1985), in Social History of Alcohol Review, 13, Spring 1986. Geoffrey Cocks, Psychotherapy in the Third Reich: The Göring Institute (New York & Oxford, 1985), in German Studies Review, IX, 2, May 1986. Hedwig Rudolph & Rudolf Husemann, Hochschulpolitik zwischen Expansion und Restriktion: Ein Vergleich der Entwicklung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (Frankfurt & New York, 1984), in Higher Education, 15, 3/4, 1986. Jeffrey Herf, Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics (New York, 1984), in German Studies Review, IX, 3, October 1986. Klaus Malettke (Hrsg.), Der Nationalsozialismus an der Macht: Aspekte nationalsozialistischer Politik und Herrschaft (Göttingen, 1985), in German Studies Review, IX, 3, October 1986. George L. Mosse, Nationalism and Sexuality: Respectability and Abnormal Sexuality in Modern Europe (New York, 1985), in German Studies Review, IX, 3, October 1986. Mark Girouard, Victorian Pubs (New Haven, 1984), in Social History of Alcohol Review, 14, Fall 1986. Martin Zagatta, Informationspolitik und Öffentlichkeit: Zur Theorie der politischen Kommunikation in der DDR. Mit einer Fallstudie zur Einführung des Wehrunterrichts (Köln, 1984), in GDR Bulletin, XII, 2, Fall 1986.
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John E. Craig, Scholarship and Nation Building: The Universities of Strasbourg and Alsatian Society 1870-1939 (Chicago & London, 1984), in American Journal of Education, 95, 2, February 1987. Derry Brabbs, English Country Pubs (London, 1986), in Social History of Alcohol Review, 15, Spring 1987. Pamela Vandyke Price, Wine: Lore, Legends and Traditions (Twickenham, 1985), in Social History of Alcohol Review, 15, Spring 1987. Alice Gallin, Midwives to Nazism: University Professors in Weimar Germany 1925-1933 (Macon, 1986), in American Historical Review, 92, 4, October 1987. R.G.S. Weber, The German Student Corps in the Third Reich (London, 1986), in German History, 5, Autumn 1987. Sterling Fishman & Lothar Martin, Estranged Twins: Education and Society in the Two Germanys (New York, 1987), in Higher Education Quarterly, Winter 1987. Roman Sandgruber, Bittersüße Genüsse: Kulturgeschichte der Genußmittel (Wien, Köln & Graz, 1986), in Social History of Alcohol Review, 17, Spring 1988. Fritz Hallgarten, Wine Scandal (London, 1987), in Social History of Alcohol Review, 18, Fall 1988. Franz Dröge & Thomas Krämer-Badoni, Die Kneipe: Zur Soziologie einer Kulturform (Frankfurt, 1987), in Social History of Alcohol Review, 18, Fall 1988. Kurt-Ingo Flessau, Elke Nyssen & Günter Pätzold (Hrsg.), Erziehung im Nationalsozialismus: “...und sie werden nicht mehr frei ihr ganzes Leben!” (Köln & Wien, 1987), in German History, 6,2, 1988. Christian Koch and Hans-Christian Täubrich (Eds.), Bier in Nürnberg-Fürth: Brauereigeschichte in Franken (Munich, 1987), in Social History of Alcohol Review, Spring 1989. Tracy H. Koon, Believe, Obey, Fight: Political Socialization of Youth in Fascist Italy 19221943 (Chapel Hill,1985), in Comparative Education Review, May 1987. Dieter Rossmeissl, „Ganz Deutschland wird zum Führer halten....‟: Zur politischen Erziehung in den Schulen des Dritten Reiches (Frankfurt, 1985), in Comparative Education Review, May 1987. Frank Mort, Dangerous Sexualities: Medico-Moral Politics in England Since 1830 (London, 1987), in Committee on Lesbian and Gay History Newsletter, 2,3, December 1988. John Seekings, Thomas Hardy‟s Brewer: The Story of Eldridge, Pope & Co. (Dovecote Press: Wimborne, 1988), in Social History of Alcohol Review, 20, Fall 1989.
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Volker Berghahn & Hanna Schissler (Eds.), Perceptions of History: International Textbook Research on Britain, Germany and the United States. (New York, 1988), in German Studies Review, XII, 3, October 1989. Detlef K. Müller, Fritz Ringer & Brian Simon, The Rise of the Modern Educational System: Structural Change and Social Reproduction 1870-1920 (Cambridge & Paris, 1987), in German History, 8, 1, 1990. Detlef K. Müller & Bernd Zymek, Datenhandbuch zur deutschen Bildungsgeschichte: Sozialgeschichte und Statistik des Schulsystems in den Staaten des Deutschen Reiches, 1800-1945 (Göttingen, 1987), in German History, 8, 1, 1990. Patricia E. Prestwich, Drink and the Politics of Social Reform: Antialcoholism in France Since 1870 (Palo Alto, 1988), in American Historical Review, 95, 3, June 1990. Sigrid Bias-Engels, Zwischen Wandervogel und Wissenschaft: Zur Geschichte von Jugendbewegung und Studentenschaft 1896-1920 (Cologne, 1988), in German History, 8, 2, 1990 Paul Thiel, Lokal-Termin in Alt-Berlin: Ein Streifzug durch Kneipen, Kaffeehäuser und Gartenrestaurants. Second Edition (East Berlin, 1989), in Social History of Alcohol Review, 21/22. Spring/Fall 1990. Gerhard Rempel, Hitler‟s Children: The Hitler Youth and the SS (Chapel Hill, 1989), in German Studies Review, XIII, 3, October 1990 Norbert Kampe, Studenten und “Judenfrage” im Deutschen Kaiserreich: Die Entstehung einer akademischen Trägerschicht des Antisemitismus (Göttingen,1988), in German History, 9,1, 1991. Richard J. Evans (Hrsg.), Kneipengespräche im Kaiserreich: Stimmungsberichte der Hamburger Politischen Polizei 1892-1914 (Reinbek, 1989), in German History, 9,1, 1991. Evelin Heckhorn & Hartmut Wiehr, München und sein Bier: Vom Brauhandwerk zur Bierindustrie (Munich, 1989), in Social History of Alcohol Review, 23, Spring 1991. Lesley Richmond & Alison Turton (Eds.), The Brewing Industry: A Guide to Historical Records (Manchester & New York, 1990), in Social History of Alcohol Review, 24, Fall 1991. David Christian, Living Water: Vodka and Russian Society on the Eve of Emancipation (Oxford, 1990), in The Historical Journal, 34, 4, 1991. Ulrich Wyrwa, Branntewein und "echtes" Bier: Die Trinkkultur der Hamburger Arbeiter im 19. Jahrhundert (Hamburg, 1990), in Social History of Alcohol Review, Spring 1992. Ursula Sillge, Un-Sichtbare Frauen: Lesben und ihre Emanzipation in der DDR (Berlin, 1991), in German Studies Review, XVI, 1, February 1993.
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Robert Gellately, The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy, 1933-1945 (Oxford, 1990), in Journal of Modern History, 65, 4, December 1993 Richard Bauer (Ed.), Zu Gast im alten München: Erinnerungen an Hotels, Wirtschaften und Cafés Fourth Edition. (Munich, 1987), in Social History of Alcohol Review, 26, Winter 1994 Hans-Christian Täubrich, Zu Gast im alten Berlin: Erinnerungen an die Alt-Berliner Gastlichkeit mit Hotelpalästen, Vergnügungslokalen, Ausflugsgaststätten und Destillen (Munich, 1990) in Social History of Alcohol Review, 26, Winter 1994 Rainer Eckert, Wolfgang Küttler & Gustav Seeber (Hrsg.), Krise-Umbruch-Neubeginn: Eine kritische und selbstkritische Dokumentation der DDR-Geschichtswissenschaft 1989/90. Klett-Cotta: Stuttgart, 1992, in German Studies Review, XVII, 1, February 1994 Christian Jansen, Professoren und Politik: Politisches Denken und Handeln der Heidelberger Hochschullehrer 1914-1935 (Göttingen, 1992); and —, Vom Gelehrten zum Beamten: Karriereverläufe und soziale Lage der Heidelberger Hochschullehrer 1914-1933 (Heidelberg, 1992), in American Historical Review, 99, 2, April 1994. Harry Oosterhuis (Ed.), Homosexuality and Male Bonding in Pre-Nazi Germany: The Youth Movement, the Gay Movement, and Male Bonding Before Hitler's Rise (Binghamton, 1991), in Committee on Lesbian and Gay History Newsletter, May 1994. Hasso Spode, Alkohol und Zivilisation: Berauschung, Ernüchterung und Tischsitten in Deutschland bis zum Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts (Berlin, 1991), in Social History of Alcohol Review, 30, Fall 1994. Hasso Spode, Die Macht der Trunkenheit: Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte des Alkohols in Deutschland (Opladen, 1993), in American Historical Review, April 1996. Lynn Abrams, Workers‟ Culture in Imperial Germany: Leisure and Recreation in the Rhineland and Westphalia (New York, 1992), in Monatshefte, 88, 4, Winter 1996 Michael Burleigh & Wolfgang Wippermann, The Racial State: Germany 1933-1945 (Cambridge and New York, 1991), in German Studies Review, May 1996 Günter Grau (Ed.), Hidden Holocaust: Gay and Lesbian Persecution in Germany, 1933-45 (New York, 1995), in Committee on Lesbian and Gay History Newsletter, 11, 1, January/March 1997 Alan E. Steinweis, Art, Ideology and Economics in Nazi Germany: The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater and the Visual Arts (Chapel Hill, 1993), in German History, 15, 2, 1997 Atina Grossmann, Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform, 1920-1950 (New York, 1995), in German Studies Review, XX, 2, May 1997
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Mark Roseman (Ed.), Generations in Conflict: Youth Revolt and Generation Formation in Germany 1770-1968 (New York & Cambridge, 1995), in German History, 16, 1, 1998 Michael Grüttner, Studenten im Dritten Reich (Paderborn, 1995), in German History,16, 3, 1998 Peter Chroust, Gießener Universität und Faschismus: Studenten und Hochschullehrer 19181945 (Münster & New York, 1994), 2 vols., in Central European History, 31, 4, 1998 Jonathan Petropoulos, Art As Politics in the Third Reich (Chapel Hill, 1996), in German History,17, 1, 1999 Dietrich Heither, Michael Gehler, Alexandra Kurth and Gerhard Schäfer, Blut und Paukboden: Eine Geschichte der Burschenschaften (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1997), in German Studies Review, XXII, 1, 1999 Karl Toepfer, Empire of Ecstasy: Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 1910-1935 (University of California Press: Berkeley, 1997). in German Studies Review, XXIII, 2, May 2000 Pamela M. Potter, Most German of the Arts: Musicology and Society from the Weimar Republic to the End of Hitler‟s Reich. (New Haven and London, 1998), in German History, 18, 3, 2000. Jurgen Herbst, Requiem for a German Past: A Boyhood among the Nazis (Madison, 1999), in History of Education Quarterly, 40, 4, Winter 2000. Gad Beck, An Underground Life: The Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin (Madison, 1999), in Committee on Lesbian and Gay History Newsletter, 15, 1, Spring 2001. Andreas Daum, Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19. Jahrhundert: Bürgerliche Kultur, naturwissenschaftliche Bildung und die deutsche Öffentlichkeit, 1848-1914 (München, 1998), in German Studies Review, XXIV, 3, October 2001. Lothar Machtan, The Hidden Hitler (New York, 2001), in The Washington Post (Sunday Book World supplement), 25 November 2001. Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller, Mann für Mann: Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte von Freundesliebe und mannmännlicher Sexualität im deutschen Sprachraum (Hamburg: MännerschwarmSkript Verlag, 1998), in Committee on Gay and Lesbian History Newsletter, 16, 1, Spring 2002. Bryan Mark Rigg, Hitler‟s Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military (University Press of Kansas: Lawrence, 2002) in The Washington Post (Sunday Book World section), 26 May 2002. Joachim Müller & Andreas Sternweiler, Homosexuelle Männer im KZ Sachsenhausen (Berlin: Verlag rosa Winkel, 2000),
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and Pretzel, Andreas, and Gabriele Roßbach, eds. Wegen der zu erwartenden hohen Strafe...: Homosexuellenverfolgung in Berlin 1933-1945 (Berlin: rosa Winkel, 2000), in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 17, 1, Spring 2003, pp. 196-202. Philipp Gassert and Daniel S. Mattern, The Hitler Library: A Bibliography. (Westport, CT & London: Greenwood, 2001), in German Studies Review, October 2003 Gregory Paul Wegner, Anti-Semitism and Schooling under the Third Reich (New York and London: RoutledgeFalmer, 2002), in Paedagogica Historica, 39, 6, December 2003. Philipp Witkop (Ed.), German Students‟ War Letters. Translated and arranged from the original edition of Dr. Philipp Witkop by A.F. Wedd; foreword by Jay Winter. Philadelphia: Pine Street Books, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002, for H-German, July 2004, at: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=124501093869681 Karl Hampe. Kriegstagebuch 1914-1919. Edited by Folker Reichert & Eike Wolgast. Deutsche Geschichtsquellen des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Munich: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2004, H-German, January 2007, accessible at: http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=HGerman&month=0701&week=b&msg=R40mudcGEA%2bvSBCYfzgzVg&user=&pw= Shelley Baranowski. Strength Through Joy: Consumerism and Mass Tourism in the Third Reich (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004), in German Studies Review, XXX, 3, October 2007. Michael Berkowitz, The Crime of My Very Existence: Nazism and the Myth of Jewish Criminality (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), in press for German Studies Review, XXXII, 2, May 2009. Stefan Goebel, The Great War and Medieval Memory: War, Remembrance and Medievalism in Britain and Germany, 1914-1940 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007), for HGerman, May 2009, accessible at: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=24744 Dagmar Herzog, Sex After Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005), Journal of the History of Sexuality, 18, 3, September 2009. Roger Chickering, The Great War and Urban Life in Germany: Freiburg, 1914-1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), Journal of Modern History, 81, 3, September 2009. David Raub Snyder, Sex Crimes under the Wehrmacht (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007), Central European History, 42, 4, December 2009 David Hamlin, Work and Play: The Production and Consumption of Toys in Germany, 18701914 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007), German Studies Review, 33, 1, February 2010.
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Anton Holzer, Die andere Front: Fotografie und Propaganda im Ersten Weltkrieg. Mit unveröffentlichten Originalaufnahmen aus dem Bildarchiv der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek (Darmstadt: Primus, 2007), German Studies Review, 33, 1, February 2010. John Alexander Williams, Turning to Nature in Germany: Hiking, Nudism and Conservation, 1900-1940 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007), German Studies Review, 33, 2, May 2010. Uwe Schmidt, Nationalsozialistische Schulverwaltung in Hamburg: Vier Führungspersonen (Hamburg: Hamburg University Press, 2008), German Studies Review, 33, 2, May 2010. Peter Fritzsche, Life and Death in the Third Reich (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008), for Journal of Modern History, 82, 3, September 2010:
