Geoffrey J. Giles

Publications

Partial listing
Updated August 2007

Books:

Students and National Socialism in Germany (Princeton University Press, 1985)

Homosexuality and the Nazis (forthcoming)

Co-edited books:
Keith Bullivant, Geoffrey Giles and Walter Pape, Germany and Eastern Europe: Cultural Identities and Cultural Differences. Series: Yearbook of European Studies, 13 (Rodopi: Amsterdam, 1999)

Chapters in books:

"The Rise of the National Socialist Students' Association and the Failure of Political Education in the Third Reich," in Peter D. Stachura (Ed.), The Shaping of the Nazi State (London & New York, 1978), pp. 160-185.

 "Die Idee der politischen Universität. Hochschulreform nach der Machtergreifung," in Manfred Heinemann (Hrsg.), Erziehung und Schulung im Dritten Reich. Teil 2: Hochschule, Erwachsenenbildung (Stuttgart,1980), pp. 50-60.

 "Die Verbändepolitik des Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Studentenbundes," in Christian Probst (Hrsg.), Darstellungen und Quellen zur Geschichte der deutschen Einheitsbewegung im neunzehnten und zwanzigsten Jahrhundert, Band 11 (Heidelberg, 1981), pp. 95-155.

 "National Socialism and the Educated Elite in the Weimar Republic," in Peter D. Stachura (Ed.), The Nazi Machtergreifung (London, 1983), pp. 49-67.

 "Zur Sozialgeschichte des Alkohols in Deutschland," in "Wem der geprant wein nutz sey oder schad..." Zur Kulturgeschichte des Branntweins (Hilden, 1989), pp. 85-98.

 "La estructura del sistema de educación superior en la República Democrática Alemana," in Karen E. Kovacs (Ed.), La revolución inconclusa. Las universidades y el Estado en la década de los ochenta (San Angel, Mexico, 1990), pp. 57-97.

 "Student Drinking in the Third Reich. Academic Tradition and the Nazi Revolution," in Susanna Barrows & Robin Room (Eds.), Drinking: Behavior and Belief in Modern History (Berkeley, 1991), pp. 132-43.

 "Professor und Partei: Der Hamburger Lehrkörper und der Nationalsozialismus," in Eckart Krause, Ludwig Huber und Holger Fischer (Hrsg.), Hochschulalltag im "Dritten Reich": Die Hamburger Universität 1933-1945 (Berlin/Hamburg, 1991), I, pp. 113-124.

 "'Die Fahne hoch, die Reihen dicht geschlossen'. Die Studenten als Verfechter einer völkischen Universität?" in Eckhard John, Bernd Martin, Marc Mück & Hugo Ott (Hrsg.), Die Freiburger Universität in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus (Freiburg/Würzburg, 1991), pp. 43-56.

 "Schooling for Little Soldiers: German Education in the Second World War," in Roy Lowe (Ed.), Education and the Second World War: Studies in Schooling and Social Change (London/Washington, D.C., 1992), pp. 17-29.

 "Die Übersetzung primärer Quellen der Sozialgeschichte Deutschlands," Armin Paul Frank et al. (Hrsg.), Übersetzen, verstehen, Brücken bauen: Geisteswissenschaftliches und literarisches Übersetzen im internationalen Kulturaustausch (Berlin, 1993), pp. 427-435.

 "Die Tätigkeit Hamberger Hochschullehrer in der NS-Bewegung," in Günter Grau & Peter Schneck, Akademische Karrieren im "Dritten Reich": Beiträge zur Personal- und Berufungspolitik an Medizinischen Fakultäten (Berlin, 1993), pp. 83-88.

"Women, Men and Unification: Gender Politics and the Abortion Struggle Since 1989," [co-authored with Joyce Mushaben & Sara Lennox], in Konrad H. Jarausch (Ed.), After Unity: Reconfiguring German Identities (Providence, 1997), pp. 137-172.

"Who Owns the Past? The Surrender of the Berlin Document Center," and
"How To Use An Archive," in Scott Denham, Irene Kacandes & Jonathan Petropoulos (Eds.), German Studies As Cultural Studies: A User's Manual (Chicago, 1997), pp. 377-388 and 483-487.

 "Blind in the Right Eye: German Justice and Holocaust Denial," in Peter Hayes (Ed.), Lessons and Legacies III: Memory, Memorialization, and Denial (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1999),  pp. 248-253.

"Popular Education and New Media: The Cigarette Card in Germany," in Marc Depaepe & Bregt Henkens (Eds.), The Challenge of the Visual in the History of Education. Paedagogica Historica Supplementary Series, Volume VI: Gent, 2000, pp. 449-469.

Die erzieherische Rolle von Sammelbildern in politischen Umbruchszeiten," in Dietrich Papenfuß & Wolfgang Schieder (Hrsg.), Deutsche Umbrüche im 20. Jahrhundert (Köln/Weimar/Wien: Böhlau, 2000), pp. 241-265.

"The Institutionalization of Homosexual Panic in the Third Reich", in Robert Gellately and Nathan Stolzfus (Eds.), Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany (Princeton University Press: Princeton, 2001), pp. 223-255

“Männerbund mit Homo-Panik: Die Angst der Nazis vor der Rolle der Erotik”, in Burkhard Jellonnek & Rüdiger Lautmann (Eds.), Nationalsozialistischer Terror gegen Homosexuelle: Verdrängt und ungesühnt (Schöningh: Paderborn, 2002), pp. 105-118.

“Through Cigarette Cards to Manliness: Building German Character with an Informal Curriculum,” in Joyce Goodman & Jane Martin, Gender, Colonialism and Education: The Politics of Experience (London & Portland: Woburn Press, 2002), pp. 73-96.

“Confirming Their Prejudices: German University Students and Himmler’s Resettlement Program,” in Larry V. Thompson (Ed.), Lessons and Legacies IV: Reflections on Religion, Justice, Sexuality, and Genocide (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2003), pp. 236-249.

"The Denial of Homosexuality: Same-Sex Incidents in Himmler's SS and Police," in Dagmar Herzog (ed.), Sexuality and German Fascism (New York: Berghahn, 2005), pp. 256-290.

“Drinking and Crime in Modern Germany”, in Richard Wetzell (Ed.), The Criminal and his Scientists, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

“A Gray Zone Among the Field Gray Men: Confusion in the Discrimination against Homosexuals in the Wehrmacht,” in Jonathan Petropoulos & John Roth (Eds.), Gray Zones: Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and its Aftermath (New York: Berghahn, 2005), pp. 127-146.

Articles

"The Structure of Higher Education in the German Democratic Republic," Higher Education, 7, 1978, pp. 131-156.

 "University Government in Nazi Germany: Hamburg," Minerva, XVI, 2, Summer 1978, pp. 196- 221.

 "German Students and Higher Education Policy in the Second World War," Central European History, XVII, December 1984, pp. 330-354.

 "Die Alkoholfrage im Dritten Reich," Drogalkohol, 3, December 1986, pp. 257-265.

 "Temperance before the temperance movements: some examples from eighteenth-century children's literature in England and Germany," History of Education, 20, 4, 1991, pp. 295-305.

 "'The Most Unkindest Cut of All': Castration, Homosexuality and Nazi Justice," Journal of Contemporary History, 27, 1, January 1992, pp. 41-61.

 "University History in the New German States: the Condition of the Archives," German History, 10, 3, October 1992, pp. 366-391.

"Reeducation at Heidelberg University," Paedagogica Historica, XXXIII, 1, 1997. Special issue: Mutual Influences on Education: Germany and the United States in the Twentieth Century,  pp. 201-219.

"The Denial of Homosexuality: Same-Sex Incidents in Himmler's SS and Police," Journal of the History of Sexuality, 11, 1/2, January/April 2002, pp. 256-290.

“Legislating Nazi Homophobia: The Radicalization of Prosecution Against Homosexuality by the Legal Profession in the Third Reich”, German History, special issue on “Sexuality in Modern German History”, 23, 3, 2005,  pp. 339-354.

Edited works

Stunde Null: The End and the Beginning Fifty Years Ago.  German Historical Institute Occasional Paper No. 20.  Washington, DC, 1997.

Monographs

Why Bother About Homosexuals? Homophobia and Sexual Politics in Nazi Germany.  Occasional Paper Series, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, August 2002

Review essays

"The Academic Ethos in the Face of National Socialism," Minerva, XVIII, 1, Spring 1980, pp. 171-179.

 "Educational Policy in Nazi Germany," The Review of Education, 11, 2, Spring 1985, pp.91-96.

Translations

Translator of two chapters, and author of critical, historical introduction, in John Bornemann (Ed.), Gay Voices from East Germany. Interviews by Jürgen Lemke (Indiana University Press: Bloomington, 1990), pp. 11-36.

Hasso Spode, “Germany,” in Jack S. Blocker Jr., David M. Fahey & Ian R. Tyrell (Eds.), Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History: An International Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara, Denver & Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2003), Volume I, pp. 257-263.

Scholarly Book Reviews

Over 100 (see separate list)