Historian of modern Central and Eastern Europe. I study German imperialism and colonialism to analyze the relationship of ethnic minorities to the modern state.
May 17, 2022 • 26 tweets • 9 min read
Day 2 of [belatedly] promoting my article with @CentralEuropean, "“Incurable Megalomania” and “Fantasies of Expansion”: The German Army Reimagines Empire in Occupied Poland, 1915–1918". Today I talk about the Polish "border-strip" (1/N)
bit.ly/3Mq3oQG@CentralEuropean This is one of the most enduring misconceptions of the #Firstworldwar: that the leaders of the Prusso-German army were obsessed with annexing and Germanizing conquered territory in Russian Poland. (2/N)
May 16, 2022 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
Now that the semester has wrapped up, I’m going to (finally) take a moment to promote my article, "“Incurable Megalomania” and “Fantasies of Expansion”: The German Army Reimagines Empire in Occupied Poland, 1915–1918", published in @CentralEuropean. bit.ly/3FSnwIF@CentralEuropean The article reconsiders how the German Officer Corps thought about imperial expansion and national identity during the #Firstworldwar. Typically, the German army is portrayed as favoring an imperial strategy of annexation and Germanization (2/N)
May 24, 2021 • 40 tweets • 6 min read
I think my main complaint with this essay is that it insists on replacing one catechism with another. (thread 1/17)
I have decidedly mixed feelings. I agree with Moses that the Holocaust should not be understood as an event outside of history, and that historians should be encouraged to understand it alongside, and in comparison to, other instances of mass violence. (2/17)
