Chapters and Articles
Book Chapter
Chapter 3: “Terror with a Human Face: Morality, Propaganda, and Image in the Wehrmacht.” In The German-Soviet War, 1941–1945, edited by Robert von Maier and Jeff Rutherford. Cornell University Press, 2025.
In this chapter, I discuss and attempt to explain the strange combination of violent threats and civil discourse deployed by the Wehrmacht in its propaganda to Soviet civilians and its own men.
The book is available on amazon and Cornell’s website.
Book Chapter
Chapter 8: “Morality, Nazi Ideology, and the Individual in the Third Reich: The Example of the Wehrmacht.” In Contemporary Europe in the Historical Imagination, edited by Skye Doney and Sunny Yudkoff. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023.
In this chapter of a book that celebrates the legacy of historian George Mosse, I trace how Germans navigated the moral landscape of the Third Reich by drawing from traditional moral concepts as well as what Claudia Koonz has termed “Nazi morality.”
You can find the book on amazon or the University of Wisconsin Press website.
ARTICLE
“Unholy Crusaders: The Wehrmacht and the Reestablishment of Soviet Churches during Operation Barbarossa.” Central European History 52, no. 4 (2019), 620-649.
In this article, I examined the efforts of German soldiers and chaplains of the Wehrmacht during their 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union to reopen churches closed by the Soviet regime. I explain why these events occurred, especially given that they ran counter both to Nazi ideology and the genocidal nature of the invasion, and what they meant to the men who took part in them.
Book Chapter
Chapter 6: “‘We No Longer Pay Heed to Humanitarian Considerations’: Narratives of Perpetration in the Wehrmacht, 1941-1944.” In Perpetrators. Dynamics, Motivations and Concepts for Participating in Mass Violence, edited by Timothy Williams and Susanne Buckley-Zistel. Routledge Studies in Genocide and Crimes against Humanity. NY: Routledge, 2018.
Here I discuss how German soldiers who committed mass atrocities on the Eastern Front during World War Two explained their actions to friends and family back home through their letters.
CONTRIBUTOR
Guide to Byzantine Historical Writing, Leonora Neville, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
For this volume, which provides biographical details and references to the writings of 52 historians who wrote in Greek between 600 and 1480 CE, I helped conduct research, translate from German and French, and write portions of the text.
The book can be found on amazon and at Cambridge University Press’ website.