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Informationen zum Autor Michael Burleigh is a historian and commentator. His books include the bestselling The Third Reich: A New History , which won the Samuel Johnson Prize; Small Wars, Far Away Places , which was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, The Best of Times, The Worst of Times and Day of the Assassins . He writes regularly for the The Times , Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday on international affairs and has also won a British Film Institute Award for Archival Achievement and a New York Film and Television Festival Award Bronze Medal. A Professor of Modern History, Michael was the first appointed Engelsberg Chair of History and International Relations at LSE IDEAS from 2019 to 2020, which is an annual distinguished visiting professorship, delivering public lectures to LSE's foreign policy think tank. He lives in London. From the winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2001 and the author of the award-winning The Third Reich: A New History comes a brilliant analysis of German scholarship under the Nazis. Zusammenfassung Combining intellectual history, biography and the analysis of particular institutions, GERMANY TURNS EASTWARDS shows the relations between the Nazi regime and contemporary scholarly experts on eastern Europe, which eventually put an entire academic discipline on a path which led to biological racism and manipulation under the Nazis. 'Meticulously, stylishly, and with great skill, Burleigh describes the growing links with state authorities, and with the SS, even before the outbreak of the war and German expansion brought about the 'hour of the experts'. Michael Burleigh's excellent study is a chilling account of scholarship working in the interest of inhumane, repulsive political precepts.' Ian Kershaw 'A major contribution to our knowledge of ordinary life in Nazi Germany through its exposure of the ready collaboration of a section of the no-so-muddled majority, the academic profession' History Today 'Michael Burleigh's case against German experts on the East is brilliantly provocative and robust' Times Literary Supplement ...
