Presented at the German History Society Annual Conference, King’s College London, 4 September 2019.
Author: Helen Roche
Invitation to speak at the Ioannou Centre, University of Oxford
On 16 December 2019, Helen presented a keynote paper entitled ‘Theorising the Use and Abuse of the Classical Past in Mussolini’s Third Rome and Hitler’s Third Reich’ at an international conference on Classics and the Spectacular under Fascism: Classical Performance in the ‘Ventennio Fascista’, held at the Ioannou Centre, University of Oxford, and hosted by the Archive of Performances of Greek andRead more...
'Die Klosterschule Ilfeld als Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalt'in Die Klosterkammer Hannover 1931-1955: Eine Mittelbehörde zwischen wirtschaftlicher Rationalität und Politisierung, ed. Detlef Schmiechen Ackermann et al., Göttingen (Wallstein), 2018, pp. 605-26.
This chapter delineates the history of the Klosterschule in Ilfeld, and its transformation into a Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalt (Napola). The Klosterkammer Hannover's role in the running of the school and its support of the Napola after 1935 is explored, as well as its involvement with other putative Napola foundation projects.Read more...
Invitation to speak at Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen
On 14 November 2019, Helen presented a paper entitled ‘Aryan Antiquity? The Rhetoric of Race in Nazi Pedagogy (and beyond)’ at an international conference on the theme Is Europe Inclusive? Politics, Discourses and Practices, held at Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen.Read more...
New Book Review: The Oxford Illustrated History of the Third Reich
Helen's review of The Oxford Illustrated History of the Third Reich, edited by Robert Gellately (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), has just been published in History journal.Read more...
Aryan Antiquity? The Rhetoric of Race in Nazi Pedagogy (and beyond)
Presented at an international conference entitled Is Europe Inclusive? Politics, Discourses and Practices, Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, 14 November 2019.Read more...
Invitation to speak at the Wewelsburg
On 14 September 2019, Helen gave a talk at the Wewelsburg as part of a symposium entitled “Demokratie und Diktatur in Deutschland aus britischer Sicht”, alongside historians Mary Fulbrook, Caroline Pearce and Helen Boak.Read more...
"Zwischen Freundschaft und Feindschaft": Austauschprogramme zwischen den Nationalpolitischen Erziehungsanstalten und den Britischen “Public Schools”– eine Fallstudie
Presented at the 11. Wissenschaftliches Symposium: Demokratie und Diktatur in Deutschland aus britischer Sicht, Kreismuseum Wewelsburg, 14 September 2019.Read more...
'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...
Appointment to Academic Advisory Board, 'Nordhausen April 1945'
Helen has been appointed to the academic advisory board of a project entitled ‘Nordhausen April 1945: Hintergründe, Opfer, Erinnerung’, initiated by Nordhausen Town Council and its Mayor, Kai Buchmann, to research the genesis of the Allied bombing raid which took place in April 1945 and destroyed the whole of Nordhausen’s medieval city, and its ramifications in post-war GDR memory culture.Read more...