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Konrad H. Jarausch

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    Term

    January 7, 2013 — June 28, 2013

    Professional affiliation

    Lurcy Professor of European Civilization, University of North Carolina

    Wilson Center Projects

    “Taming Modernity? European Experiences in the Twentieth Century”

    Full Biography

    Konrad H. Jarausch is the Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and Senior Fellow of the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam/Germany. Among the more than 50 books which he has written or edited on German and European History are Reluctant Accomplice: A Wehrmacht Soldier’s Letters from the Eastern Front (Princeton 2011), Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century (Princeton, 2015), and Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the Twentieth Century (Princeton, 2018).

    Major Publications

    The Rush to German Unity

    After Hitler: Recivilizing Germans

    Reluctant Accomplice: A Soldiers Letters from the Eastern Front