About

Peter Fritzsche is a professor in the Department of History at Illinois College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. He holds additional campus affiliations as the W. D. and Sara E. Trowbridge Professor of History, and is involved with the Center for Advanced Study, Germanic Languages and Literatures, the Program in Jewish Culture and Society, the Russian, East European and Eurasian Center, the Center for Global Studies, and the European Union Center. His research areas include Britain and the British Empire, Modern Europe, and Global Jewish history. Fritzsche has authored several recent publications, including books on World War II and the Third Reich, and has contributed scholarly work on media and ideological motivation during Nazi Germany. His work focuses on historical events and themes related to 20th-century Europe, particularly the social and political dynamics of Nazi Germany and the broader context of modern European history.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• History
• Law
• Ancient history
• Art history
• Biology
• Geography
• Ecology
• Paleontology
• Media studies
• Archaeology

Selected publications

• Michael H. Kater. <i>Culture in Nazi Germany</i>.

  The American Historical Review · 2023-07-15

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  Journal Article Michael H. Kater. Culture in Nazi Germany. Get access Michael H. Kater. Culture in Nazi Germany. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. xviii, 453. Cloth: $35.00. Peter Fritzsche Peter Fritzsche University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUS Email: pfritzsc@illinois.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 3, September 2023, Pages 1512, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhad311 Published: 26 September 2023

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• 5. Call and Response: The Creation of the National Socialist Public

  Berghahn Books · 2023-10-10

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• Moderate Modernity: The Newspaper Tempo and the Transformation of Weimar Democracy

  German History · 2023 · 1 citations

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  • Sociology
  • Political Science
  • Art history

  Journal Article Moderate Modernity: The Newspaper Tempo and the Transformation of Weimar Democracy Get access Moderate Modernity: The Newspaper Tempo and the Transformation of Weimar Democracy. By Jochen Hung. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. 2023. 274pp.$75.00(hardback);$59.95(e-book). Peter Fritzsche Peter Fritzsche University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA pfritzsc@uiuc.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 41, Issue 3, September 2023, Pages 504–506, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghad041 Published: 16 August 2023

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• Call and Response:

  Berghahn Books · 2023-10-01

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• :<i>Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years’ War to the Third Reich</i>

  The Journal of Modern History · 2023-03-01

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• Nostalgia, or a Ruin with a View

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2022-06-09

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  The literary critic George Steiner gets to the essence of change brought about by the quarter-century of revolution and war after 1789 with his wonderful remark that whenever ‘ordinary men and women looked across the garden hedge, they saw bayonets passing’.1 At first glance, the image is quaint and brings to mind ‘the recent arrival of a militia regiment’ in Meryton in the first pages of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. With the red coats in their midst, the Bennett sisters were ‘well supplied both with news and happiness’; indeed, soon they would no longer receive ‘pleasure from the society of a man in any other colour’.2 But Steiner was remarking on something else beside the novel traffic of warriors in the countryside. The world ‘beyond the garden hedge’ destroyed the tranquillity of the universe bounded by the hedge. ‘It is the events of 1789 to 1815’, Steiner explains, that first ‘interpenetrate common, private existence with the perception of historical processes’, their dizzying possibilities and terrifying dangers.

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• 17. The Economy of Experience in Weimar Germany

  Berghahn Books · 2022-10-11 · 1 citations

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• Chapter 4 BABI YAR, BUT NOT AUSCHWITZ What Did Germans Know about the Final Solution?

  Berghahn Books · 2022-10-21

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• 8. The Historical Actor

  Berghahn Books · 2022-10-11

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• Chapter 14 A CEMETERY IN BERLIN

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Frequent coauthors

• Pierre‐Yves Saunier

  Rockefeller Foundation

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• Rolf Gattermann

  Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

  14 shared

• Ellen Carol DuBois

  12 shared

• Jonathan Benthall

  University College London

  10 shared

• Daya Kishan Thussu

  Hong Kong Baptist University

  8 shared

• Masato Kimura

  Balsillie School of International Affairs

  8 shared

• Paulo G. Pinto

  8 shared

• Ana Longoni

  8 shared