Peter Fritzsche

Assistant Professor of History Peter Fritzsche

A scholar deciphers the puzzle of Nazism's ideological grip in a critical analysis that examines the efforts of Germans to adjust to new racial identities, to believe in the necessity of war, and to accept the dynamic of unconditional destruction.

Life and Death in the Third Reich

Explains how history is traced by Europeans and Americans who had a passionate interest in the past, exploring how they saw themselves in the drama of history, from the aftermath of the French revolution, to the parlors of America's western territories.

Modern Time and the Melancholy of History

Stranded in the Present

A fresh interpretation of the role of the middle classes in the rise of the Nazis, this study traces the eclipse of the old moderate bourgeois parties by a new breed of radical populist politician, opposed not only to the Left but to big business, the Weimar state, and democracy itself.

Populism and Political Mobilization in Weimar Germany

Rehearsals for Fascism

Gigantic, fragile airships hovering in a vast sky, war aces obsessed with death and destruction, daring young men launching their handbuilt gliders, schoolchildren wearing gas masks during air-raid drills - the bright idealism of flight and its darker service in total war come to life in this book about Germany's perilous romance with aviation. From the Kaiser's Second Reich to Hitler's Third Reich, machine dreams mingled with imperial dreams and mastery over the natural world held the promise of mastery over the political world. This is popular history of the modern era.

Assistant Professor of History Peter Fritzsche

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