Tag Archives: Nazi Germany

‘Our Friend Rommel’: How Hollywood invented the ‘Good German’

Posted on September 7, 2018 by readinghistory

by Professor Patrick Major Twenty years ago the Polish-American installation artist Piotr Uklański mounted an exhibition simply called ‘The Nazis’ (you can see many of the photographs from the exhibition here). It showed 164 images of Wehrmacht officers in uniform, … Continue reading →

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Visiting Berlin: Our Part 2 Study Trip

Posted on February 24, 2017 by readinghistory

Part 2 @UoRHistStudents @AwkwardPhoenix & @georgiarebecca_ on thier study trip to Berlin Continue reading →

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My Heritage/Museum Placement with the Humbolt University in Berlin: Sachsenhausen, the Holocaust Memorial Museum, and The Typography of Terror

Posted on August 5, 2016 by readinghistory

by Lisa Berry-Waite On my third day in Berlin I decided to visit Sachsenhausen, a concentration camp which is a short train journey from Berlin. As I’m not the best at using public transport in foreign countries, I decided to … Continue reading →

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Spaces and Places of Childhood and Youth

Posted on October 6, 2015 by readinghistory

By Dr Jeremy Burchardt This was the final event of the Department’s 2014-15 Annual Research Theme, on the history of childhood and youth.  Children’s history is very much an academic growth area, and the aim of the symposium was to … Continue reading →

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