Jeffrey Herf

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Jeffrey Herf (born 1947) is a professor of history at the University of Maryland. His specialty is in 20th century European intellectual history, especially in Germany.

Herf received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1980. Before joining the faculty at the University of Maryland, he taught at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He has published essays in The New Republic, Die Zeit, Partisan Review and elsewhere.

Jeffrey Herf is the George Herbert Walker Bush / Axel Springer Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany, for Fall 2007.

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Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich (Cambridge University Press, 1984) has become a standard work and was published in Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish translation.
War By Other Means: Soviet Power, West German Resistance and the Battle of the Euromissiles (The Free Press, 1991) examined the intersection of political culture and power politics in the last major European confrontation of the Cold War.
Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys (Harvard University Press, 1997). It was the co-winner of the Charles Frankel Prize of the Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library in London in 1996. In 1998 it received the George Lewis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association.
The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust (Harvard University Press, 2006). The work examines the Nazi regime's radical anti-Semitic propaganda as a bundle of hatreds, an explanatory framework, and effort to legitimate mass murder.