Dictatorship

In the early 1930s, Hermann Fegelein, one of Germany's most successful jockeys, met Heinrich Himmler. In 1937, he was appointed head of the main riding school of the SS. By July 1941 the SS Cavalry

This is the second in History Matters' series of blogs for LGBT History Month. All of the blogs will appear here as they are posted. As a historian of early 20th-century lesbian identity in Germany, I have

What do you do with a dead Nazi?  This question is at the very heart of my work on funerary practices in postwar Germany. Clearly, I have macabre research interests, and the notion of writing

Mary Beard recently posted on this blog advocating a greater place for the specialist historian in writing and presenting historical documentaries. Nowhere is her point more pronounced than in relation to under-represented periods of history.