Catherine Epstein Book order

Nazi Germany: Confronting the Myths provides a concise and compelling introduction to the Third Reich. At the same time, it challenges and demystifies the many stereotypes surrounding Hitler and Nazi Germany.

The narrative delves into the life of Arthur Greiser, a key figure in the implementation of the Final Solution during the Nazi occupation of Poland. It explores his role as the territorial leader of the Warthegau, revealing the chilling decisions and actions that contributed to the atrocities of this dark period in history. Through Greiser's story, the book examines themes of power, complicity, and the moral implications of his leadership in the context of the Holocaust.

The Last Revolutionaries follows the lives of German communists across the tumultuous twentieth century. Epstein offers an unparalleled portrait of the most enduring and influential generation of Central European communists.

A Past Renewed portrays the generation of German-speaking refugee historians who settled in the United States after fleeing Hitler's Europe. Bio-bibliographical entries on eighty-eight refugee historians document their scholarly contributions, historical interests, and impact on the American historical profession after 1945. Besides material on noted historians of modern Europe such as Felix Gilbert, Hajo Holborn, and Hans Rosenberg, the catalog includes information on many other historians influential in the fields of Jewish history, Renaissance history, the history of Roman and Canon Law, Chinese history, and the history of medicine. A Past Renewed provides a valuable reference work for scholars interested in the academic emigration from Nazi Germany, historiographical developments in the United States in the postwar era, the collective contribution of refugee historians to the American historical profession, and the lives and works of individual refugee historians.