Month: January 2018
'The Peculiarities of German Philhellenism'The Historical Journal 61 (2), 2018, pp. 541-60.
Studies of German philhellenism have often focused upon the idealization of Greece by German intellectuals, rather than the political relationship which existed between contemporary Germans and the Greek state from the Greek War of Independence onwards. This review essay explores the extent to which recent research affirms or rebuts the notion of a Hellenophile Sonderweg when interpreting the vicissitudes of the Graeco–German relationship.Read more...
Presented to the Pförtner Bund (Schulpforta Old Boys' Association) at their annual autumn reunion, Hotel Albrechtshof, Berlin, 10 November 2017.Read more...
'Schulische Erziehung und Entbürgerlichung'in Wie bürgerlich war der Nationalsozialismus?, ed. Norbert Frei, Göttingen (Wallstein), 2018, pp. 154-72.
This article uses the elite education provided by the Napolas, the Third Reich's most prominent elite schools, as a case study of the manifold ways in which elements of a bourgeois habitus were cultivated during the Third Reich, despite the Nazi movement's claims to embody socialist principles. Given sufficient time, the Napolas could well have become instrumental in consolidating a new, National Socialist caste structure.Read more...
Helen's review of Wilhelm Müller und der Philhellenismus, edited by Marco Hillemann and Tobias Roth (Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2015), has recently appeared in German Quarterly.Read more...