Michael Wildt

Michael Wildt studied history, cultural studies, and theology at the University of Hamburg. From 1993 to 2009, he was a Research Fellow at the Research Centre for Contemporary History in Hamburg, the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, and The International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. He is emeritus Professor of Modern German History at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Among others, he published on the consumer society in the 1950s, the concept of the people in National Socialism and today. His most recent book is on the history of Weimar and Nazi Germany: Die Zerborstene Zeit. Deutsche Geschichte 1918-1945.

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