Bruce Campbell (historian)

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Bruce Becker Campbell (* 1955 ) is an American historian.

Life and research

Campbell earned a PhD in European History from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1988 . He currently teaches at the College of William & Mary as Associate Professor of German Studies .

His main research interests are state authority, paramilitary organizations, the German youth movement of the first half of the 20th century, and nationalist and war literature.

He particularly emerged with publications about the National Socialist Sturmabteilung (SA) and other paramilitary German organizations between the two world wars, such as the Freikorps Rossbach and the Schilljugend .

Fonts

  • From Landsknecht to Political Soldier: The Political and Military Development of the Highest Leaders of the SA , 1988.
  • “The SA after the Röhm Purge”, in: Journal of Contemporary History Vol. 28 (1993), pp. 659-674.
  • "The Schilljugend: From Wehrjugend to Luftschutz", in: Wolfgang R. Krabbe (Ed.): Political Youth in the Weimar Republic , Bochum 1993, 183-201.
  • "Gerhard Rossbach, the Spielschar Ekkehard and the Cultural Attack on the Weimar Republic", in: Lothar Ehrlich / Jürgen John (eds.): Weimar 1930. Politics and culture in the run-up to the Nazi dictatorship , Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1998, p 243-259.
  • The SA Generals and the Rise of Nazism , Lexington 1998. (New editions 2004 and 2015)
  • Death Squads in Global Perspective: Murder with Deniability , 2002.
  • “'No Finer Land, Far and Wide ...': Music and National Identity in the Schilljugend, 1926–1998. '”, In: Pamela Potter / Sheila Applegate (eds.): Music and German National Identity , University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2002.
  • "The Radio Hobby, Government, and the Discourse of Catastrophe", in: Susan Merrill Squier (Ed.): Communities of the Air: Radio Century, Radio Culture , Duke University Press, Durham 2003.
  • Detectives, Dystopias, and Poplit. Studies in Modern German Genre Fiction , Rochester 2014.

literature

  • Wolfgang R. Krabbe: Political Youth in the Weimar Republic , 1993, p. 244.
personal data
SURNAME Campbell, Bruce
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Campbell, Bruce Becker (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1955