Nicholas Stargardt

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Nicholas Stargardt (born 1962 in Melbourne ) is an Australian historian and Professor of Modern European History at Magdalen College , Oxford .

Life

Nicholas Stargardt is the son of a German and an Australian. His father came from a socialist, assimilated Jewish family in Berlin and had to emigrate from the German Reich in 1939 . Stargardt studied history at King's College of Cambridge University . He is married to the historian Lyndal Roper and they have two children.

Stargardt is a Fellow at Magdalen College and teaches European History at Oxford University . He works on German history in the first half of the 20th century and researches the Holocaust .

In his work The German Idea of ​​Militarism: Radical and Socialist Critics (1994) he examined the history of the anti-war movement in Germany before the First World War . The study "Cockchafer fly!" Hitler's War and the Children (2005) presents a social history of the Second World War in Germany from the children's point of view. For the study The German War 1939 - 1945 (2015) he evaluated letters and diary entries .

Fonts (selection)

  • The German War: a nation under arms, 1939-45 . London The Bodley Head, 2015
    • The German War: 1939-1945 . From the English by Ulrike Bischoff. Frankfurt, M.: S. Fischer, 2015, ISBN 978-3-10-075140-9 .
  • Witnesses of war: children's lives under the Nazis . London: Cape, 2005
    • "Fly maybeetle!" : Hitler's War and the Children . From the English by Gennaro Ghirardelli. Munich: Dt. Verl.-Anst., 2006
  • The German idea of ​​militarism: radical and socialist critics, 1866-1914 . Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994

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SURNAME Stargardt, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne