Rebuilding Democracy in Post-Nazi Germany: A Conversation with Professors Mikkel Dack and Alexandria N. Ruble

Wednesday, November 1, 2023 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM EDT
Hybrid: Horizon Hall 6325 or Zoom

In the years after World War II, Germany underwent a profound political and social transformation. These efforts were largely oriented around ridding the country of the last vestiges of National Socialism and fostering a new commitment to democracy. The panelists, Professors Mikkel Dack and Alexandria N. Ruble, both authors of new books on this period, will discuss these transformations, how they played out on the ground and among marginalized groups, and what lessons they hold for us today. 

Alexandria N. Ruble is an assistant professor of history at the University of Idaho and the author of Entangled Emancipation: Women’s Rights in Cold War Germany, which will be published in December 2023 by University of Toronto Press. 

Mikkel Dack is an assistant professor of history at Rowan University and the author of Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany: The Fragebogen and Political Screening during the Allied Occupation, which was published in March 2023 by Cambridge University Press. 

This hybrid event is organized in partnership with the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Washington D.C., the Department of History and Art History, the Center for Humanities Research, and the Department of Modern and Classical Languages. 

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