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Growing Up with Central European History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2018

Doris L. Bergen*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto

Extract

Central European History (CEH) was the first scholarly journal I really got to know, and for more than thirty years, it has been important to me in all kinds of ways. I first encountered CEH as a Master's student at the University of Alberta, where my primary supervisor was the extraordinary Annelise Thimme, author of highly original works on Hans Delbrück, Gustav Stresemann, and the Deutschnationale Volkspartei. The discipline of history was new to me, and although I had taken some interesting undergraduate classes on early modern and modern history at the Universities of Saskatchewan and Munich, I had no idea about historiography, professional networks, or academic publishing. I probably did not even understand what the term Central Europe meant.

Type
Part I: Recollections and Reminiscences
Copyright
Copyright © Central European History Society of the American Historical Association 2018 

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References

1 Thimme, Annelise, Hans Delbruck als Kritiker der wilhelminischen Epoch (Düsseldorf: Droste, 1955)Google Scholar; idem, Gustav Stresemann. Eine politische Biographie zur Geschichte der Weimarer Republik (Hanover: O. Goedel, 1957)Google Scholar; idem, Flucht in den Mythos. Die Deutschnationale Volkspartei und die Niederlage von 1918 (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1969)Google Scholar.

2 Lepsius, Johannes, Bartholdy, Albrecht Mendelssohn, and Thimme, Friedrich, eds., Die grosse Politik der europäischen Kabinette 1871–1914, 40 vols. (Berlin: Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft für Politik und Geschichte, 1922–1927)Google Scholar.

3 See Bergen, Doris L., “Professor Dr. Annelise Thimme, November 24, 1918-April 5, 2005,” Central European History (CEH) 39, no. 3 (2006): 482–90Google Scholar.

4 Symposium: Who Voted for Hitler?,” with contributions by Hamilton, Richard F., Roloff, Ernst-August, Childers, Thomas, Allen, William Sheridan, Orlow, Dietrich, and the Editors, CEH 17, no. 1 (1984): 386Google Scholar.

5 Debate: David Abraham's The Collapse of the Weimar Republic,” with contributions by Abraham, David, Feldman, Gerald, and Unfug, Douglas A. (Editor), CEH 17, no. 2/3 (1984): 159293Google Scholar. Also see the remarks by James Van Horn Melton about the Abraham case in his memorial to Douglas A. Unfug in this commemorative issue.

6 Bergen, Doris L., “Catholics, Protestants, and Christian Antisemitism in Nazi Germany,” CEH 27, no. 3 (1994): 329–48Google Scholar.  That piece tied together with another article that came out the same year: Bergen, Doris L., “The Nazi Concept of ‘Volksdeutsche’ and the Exacerbation of Anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe,” Journal of Contemporary History 29, no. 4 (1994): 569–82CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

7 See Bergen, Doris L., “James Robert Wegs, 1937–2010: In Memoriam,” Austrian History Yearbook 42 (2011): 211–16CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

8 In addition to the introduction by Harvey and Umbach, the issue includes articles by McLellan, Josie, Auslander, Leora, Löw, Andrea, and Prehn, Ulrich. See “Photography and Twentieth-Century German History,” CEH 48, no. 3 (2015): 285423Google Scholar.