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Hitler's True Believers: How Ordinary People Became Nazis By Robert Gellately. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press 2020. Pp. 464. Hardback $34.95. ISBN: 978-0190689902.
Michael Wildt
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27 May 2025, pp. 1-2
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Sex in Prussia: How Forbidden Marriage and Forced Migration Birthed the First Protestant Church, 1500–25
Maximilian Miguel Scholz
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In 1525, Prussia became the first territory to enact the Reformation when its leaders issued a new church order based on the teachings of Martin Luther. As this article makes clear, these were not native Prussians instituting reforms but rather German clergymen, many of whom had travelled to Prussia because their marriages had provoked persecution in the Holy Roman Empire. To illuminate the intertwined phenomena of marriage, migration, and church reform in Prussia, this article compares the journeys of two German clergymen who travelled to Prussia and led the Reformation there: Paul Speratus, a Swabian preacher, and Albrecht of Brandenburg-Ansbach, the Grandmaster of the Teutonic Order. Although they came from different social strata and their journeys to Prussia were distinct, the leitmotif of marriage animates their embrace of the Reformation and their paths to Prussia.

German and United States Colonialism in a Connected World: Entangled Empires Edited by Janne Lahti. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, 2021. Pp. 339. Hardcover €117.69. ISBN: 978-3030532055.
Eva Bischoff
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22 May 2025, pp. 1-3
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Queer Lives Across the Wall: Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945–1970 By Andrea Rottmann. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. Pp. Xiv + 247. Paper $36.95. ISBN 978-1-4875-4780-6
Josie McLellan
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22 May 2025, pp. 1-2
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Mack Walker (1929–2021)–Erratum
Tanya Kevorkian
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19 May 2025, p. 1
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Das arbeitslose Subjekt. Genealogie einer Sozialfigur in Großbritannien und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland nach dem Boom By Wiebke Wiede. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023. Pp. 492. Cloth 80.00 €. ISBN: 978-3-525-36331-7.
Sibylle Marti
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14 May 2025, pp. 1-3
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Die Entstehung Pommerns. Eine archäologisch-historische Studie zur Herausbildung eines frühen Staates im Mittelalter. By Marian Rębkowski. Translated from Polish by Andreas Kieseler. Vienna and Cologne: Böhlau, 2023. Pp. 189. Hardcover 50.00 €. ISBN 978-3-412-52793-8.
Luisa Radohs
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Anti-Colonialism and the Crises of Interwar Fascism By Michael Ortiz. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2003. Pp. 264. Hardcover $170.00. ISBN: 978-1350334922.
Marzia Casolari
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13 May 2025, pp. 1-2
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The Color of Desire: The Queer Politics of Race in the Federal Republic of Germany after 1970 By Christopher Ewing. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024. ISBN: 1501773364.
Alexandria N. Ruble
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Der Krieg der Anderen. Venedig, die deutschen Reichsfürsten und die Anfänge internationaler Subsidienprojekte in der Frühen Neuzeit By Andreas Flurschütz da Cruz. Paderborn: Brill/Schöningh, 2024. Pp. XIV + 684. Cloth $134. ISBN 978-3-506-79093-4.
Lucian Staiano-Daniels
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“Die Betreffenden sind zu vernichten.” Gestapoverbrechen in der Endphase des Zweiten Weltkrieges By Markus Günnewig. Cologne: Böhlau, 2024. Pp. 424. Hardcover €60,00. ISBN: 978-3412529000
Bastiaan Willems
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Diktatur – Mensch – System, Russlanddeutsche Erfahrungen und Erinnerungen Edited by Kornelius Ens, Jannis Panagiotidis, and Hans-Christian Petersen. Paderborn, Brill Schöningh, 2023. Cloth $52.00. ISBN 9783506791764.
Amber Nickell
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13 May 2025, pp. 1-2
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Empire of Rags and Bones: Waste and War in Nazi Germany By Anne Berg. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp 376. Hardcover $45. ISBN 9780197744000
Jonathan Bach
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13 May 2025, pp. 1-3
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Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe By Stuart Carroll. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xiii + 485. Cloth $39.99. ISBN 978-1009287326.
Warren C. Brown
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Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust By Dan Stone. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. xxii + 432. Hardcover £35.00. ISBN: 978-0198846598.
Samantha K. Knapton
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Foreign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration, and Turkish-German History By Michelle Lynn Kahn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. xi + 358. Cloth $130.00. ISBN 978-1009486712.
Sarah Thomsen Vierra
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The Freest Country in the World: East Germany’s Final Year in Culture and Memory By Stephen Brockmann. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2023. Pp. x+339. Hardcover $120.00.
Melanie Lorek
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Frontiers of Empire: Max Sering, Inner Colonization, and the German East, 1871–1945 By Robert L. Nelson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 332, Hardback £85.00, ISBN: 9781009235365.
Rachel O'Sullivan
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Gdańsk: Portrait of a City. By Peter Oliver Loew. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 296. Hardcover £ 22.99. ISBN: 978-0197603864.
Anu Mai Kõll
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The God Behind the Marble: The Fate of Art in the German Aesthetic State. By Alice Goff. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2024. Hardcover $45. ISBN: 9780226828718.
Kristina Jõekalda
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Hitler's True Believers: How Ordinary People Became Nazis By Robert Gellately. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press 2020. Pp. 464. Hardback $34.95. ISBN: 978-0190689902.

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German and United States Colonialism in a Connected World: Entangled Empires Edited by Janne Lahti. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, 2021. Pp. 339. Hardcover €117.69. ISBN: 978-3030532055.

Queer Lives Across the Wall: Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945–1970 By Andrea Rottmann. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. Pp. Xiv + 247. Paper $36.95. ISBN 978-1-4875-4780-6

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Das arbeitslose Subjekt. Genealogie einer Sozialfigur in Großbritannien und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland nach dem Boom By Wiebke Wiede. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023. Pp. 492. Cloth 80.00 €. ISBN: 978-3-525-36331-7.

Die Entstehung Pommerns. Eine archäologisch-historische Studie zur Herausbildung eines frühen Staates im Mittelalter. By Marian Rębkowski. Translated from Polish by Andreas Kieseler. Vienna and Cologne: Böhlau, 2023. Pp. 189. Hardcover 50.00 €. ISBN 978-3-412-52793-8.

Anti-Colonialism and the Crises of Interwar Fascism By Michael Ortiz. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2003. Pp. 264. Hardcover $170.00. ISBN: 978-1350334922.

The Color of Desire: The Queer Politics of Race in the Federal Republic of Germany after 1970 By Christopher Ewing. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024. ISBN: 1501773364.

Der Krieg der Anderen. Venedig, die deutschen Reichsfürsten und die Anfänge internationaler Subsidienprojekte in der Frühen Neuzeit By Andreas Flurschütz da Cruz. Paderborn: Brill/Schöningh, 2024. Pp. XIV + 684. Cloth $134. ISBN 978-3-506-79093-4.

“Die Betreffenden sind zu vernichten.” Gestapoverbrechen in der Endphase des Zweiten Weltkrieges By Markus Günnewig. Cologne: Böhlau, 2024. Pp. 424. Hardcover €60,00. ISBN: 978-3412529000

Diktatur – Mensch – System, Russlanddeutsche Erfahrungen und Erinnerungen Edited by Kornelius Ens, Jannis Panagiotidis, and Hans-Christian Petersen. Paderborn, Brill Schöningh, 2023. Cloth $52.00. ISBN 9783506791764.

Empire of Rags and Bones: Waste and War in Nazi Germany By Anne Berg. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp 376. Hardcover $45. ISBN 9780197744000

Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe By Stuart Carroll. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xiii + 485. Cloth $39.99. ISBN 978-1009287326.

Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust By Dan Stone. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. xxii + 432. Hardcover £35.00. ISBN: 978-0198846598.

Foreign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration, and Turkish-German History By Michelle Lynn Kahn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. xi + 358. Cloth $130.00. ISBN 978-1009486712.

The Freest Country in the World: East Germany’s Final Year in Culture and Memory By Stephen Brockmann. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2023. Pp. x+339. Hardcover $120.00.

Frontiers of Empire: Max Sering, Inner Colonization, and the German East, 1871–1945 By Robert L. Nelson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 332, Hardback £85.00, ISBN: 9781009235365.

Gdańsk: Portrait of a City. By Peter Oliver Loew. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 296. Hardcover £ 22.99. ISBN: 978-0197603864.

The God Behind the Marble: The Fate of Art in the German Aesthetic State. By Alice Goff. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2024. Hardcover $45. ISBN: 9780226828718.

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