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Inside/Outside: Defining, Ascribing, and Communicating "Germanness" in Different Contexts, Spaces, and Times

Jan 05, 2018

Panel at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association | Organized by the contributors to the German History Intersections project

Marriot Wardman Park, Madison Room B
Chair: David Lazar (German Historical Institute)

Papers

Distinctive and Connecting Identifications: Regionality, In-migration, Emigration
Dirk Hoerder, Arizona State University
The “German Moment” of 1918
Jennifer Jenkins, University of Toronto
Performing “Germanness”: Laughter and Violence in National Socialism
Martina Kessel, University of Bielefeld
“Germanness” in the Ghetto: German-Polish Police in Lodz/ Litzmannstadt, 1940–44
Winson W. Chu, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

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Hanno Balz, Johns Hopkins University