Historian of modern Germany, Central Europe, and human rights. "Reinventing Protestant Germany," forthcoming with Harvard UP, Aug. 2025.
Brandon Bloch
Finally decided to join @bsky.app !
Excited to see my interview with Udi Greenberg on "Reinventing Protestant Germany" published @cmnd.bsky.social : contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...
I'm so pleased to share that my first book, "Reinventing Protestant Germany," appears today with @harvardpress.bsky.social. It offers a new take on West Germany's winding path toward postwar democracy, highlighting the ambivalent role of the Protestant Church. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Brandon Bloch
In part two of this CM conversation, brandonbloch.bsky.social interviews Udi Greenberg about _The End of Schism_. Together they discuss the forces that led to new levels of cooperation between Protestants and Catholics in Europe in the mid-20th century.
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A revealing account of how German Protestant leaders embraced democratic ideals after WWII, while firmly and consequentially refusing to account for their earlier complicity with Nazism.Germany’s Prot...
My book, Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973–1990, is out this September!
Thanks to Devin Pendas, Quinn Slobodian, Lora Wildenthal, @historyned.bsky.social, @laurenstokes.bsky.social, and @willgray.bsky.social for their support!
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