Robert Gellately

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Robert Gellately (born 1943 in Newfoundland ) is a Canadian historian . His main research interests are Holocaust research and European history in the 20th century.

Gellately studied Russian and German history at Memorial University of Newfoundland and a doctorate in 1974 at the London School of Economics to Ph.D. After studying as a post-doctoral student in Germany, he received teaching positions at Cornell University and at the Huron College of the University of Western Ontario . He speaks fluent German.

From 1998 to 2003, Gellately held the Strassler Chair in the History of the Holocaust at Clark University . Since August 2003 he has been Earl Ray Beck Professor of History at Florida State University . There he offers courses on the comparative history of genocide , racist thinking in Europe and the comparative study of European dictatorships, totalitarian ideologies and the Holocaust.

Looked at and looked the other way in his work . Hitler und seine Volk (Original Backing Hitler ) advocates Gellately's thesis that Hitler’s regime was not primarily based on intimidation through terror or surveillance by the Gestapo , but rather was based on broad approval by the German population .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Gestapo and German society. The Enforcement of Racial Policy 1933–1945. Translated from the English by Karl and Heidi Nicolai. 2nd edition Schöningh, Paderborn 1994, ISBN 3-506-77487-5 .
  • Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany. Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0-19-280291-0
    • German translation: Looked at and looked away. Hitler and his people. Translated from the English by Holger Fliessbach. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-421-05582-3 .
  • Lenin, Stalin and Hitler. Three dictators who led Europe into the abyss. Translated from the English by Heike Schlatterer and Norbert Juraschitz. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-7857-2349-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/archiv/2001/Holocaust-Die-Luege-von-ahnungslosen-Deutschen,erste7664.html
personal data
SURNAME Gellately, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Newfoundland