Harry Legg
@harrylegg.bsky.social
PhD @ Uni of Edinburgh, Scotland | Researching non-Jews classified as "Jewish" in Nazi Germany & Austria. Holocaust history. https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/harry-legg
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Harry Legg
@harrylegg.bsky.social
· Jul 14
Just published in the Journal of Genocide Research: my lead article for a forum I organized. In the coming days/weeks, there will be 4 responses from Victoria Barnett, Jürgen Matthäus, Amos Morris-Reich and Mate Zombory, followed by my reply
My piece (free): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
My piece (free): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Rest in peace Daniel Naroditsky. Heartbroken that he has died :( sad beyond words.
October 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Rest in peace Daniel Naroditsky. Heartbroken that he has died :( sad beyond words.
This tweet is one of many examples of why it's necessary to portray accurately the way the Nazi definition of "Jew" differed greatly from Jews' definition of Jew. People throw their hands up in horror at the suggestion that we should use scare quotes around every use of the Nazi definition 1/2
October 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This tweet is one of many examples of why it's necessary to portray accurately the way the Nazi definition of "Jew" differed greatly from Jews' definition of Jew. People throw their hands up in horror at the suggestion that we should use scare quotes around every use of the Nazi definition 1/2
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Meet the 18th cohort of the Claims Conference's #SaulKagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies: PhD candidates Lisa Storer, @alexorengog.bsky.social, Eliyau Klein, @harrylegg.bsky.social, Jovana Cveticanin, Alexandra Kramen, and postdocs Margaux Dumas & Borbala Klacsmann. fellowships.claimscon.org
October 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Meet the 18th cohort of the Claims Conference's #SaulKagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies: PhD candidates Lisa Storer, @alexorengog.bsky.social, Eliyau Klein, @harrylegg.bsky.social, Jovana Cveticanin, Alexandra Kramen, and postdocs Margaux Dumas & Borbala Klacsmann. fellowships.claimscon.org
Feeling the pressure to get a postdoc at the moment. If anyone has a cushy position available that I could take up in Sept/Oct 2026, let me know ;). I am not even joking. Some nepotism would be wonderful right about now.
October 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Feeling the pressure to get a postdoc at the moment. If anyone has a cushy position available that I could take up in Sept/Oct 2026, let me know ;). I am not even joking. Some nepotism would be wonderful right about now.
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Preorder page has the cover now!
Survival at Treblinka
uwpress.wisc.edu
October 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Preorder page has the cover now!
Thankful today that the UK has strict gun laws.
October 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Thankful today that the UK has strict gun laws.
Thoughts with my Jewish British friends today.
October 2, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Thoughts with my Jewish British friends today.
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October 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Harry Legg's article, 'I Hid for Days in the Basement' was chosen by @npapadogian.bsky.social for its use of autobiographical narrations, "[highlighting] the complexities of this hitherto understudied moment of discovery in the years before the Holocaust". [6/7]
tinyurl.com/4k86mvh2
tinyurl.com/4k86mvh2
‘I Hid for Days in the Basement’: Moments of ‘Jewish’ Discovery in Pre-Holocaust Germany and Austria | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
‘I Hid for Days in the Basement’: Moments of ‘Jewish’ Discovery in Pre-Holocaust Germany and Austria - Volume 34 Issue 2
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September 29, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Harry Legg's article, 'I Hid for Days in the Basement' was chosen by @npapadogian.bsky.social for its use of autobiographical narrations, "[highlighting] the complexities of this hitherto understudied moment of discovery in the years before the Holocaust". [6/7]
tinyurl.com/4k86mvh2
tinyurl.com/4k86mvh2
Hitler was apparently the average millennial
September 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Hitler was apparently the average millennial
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Starting today, the journal will publish on Substack. This new platform allows our authors to share short articles inspired by their work in the journal. Our debut post features Dr Anne Irfan’s piece.
open.substack.com/pub/journalg...
open.substack.com/pub/journalg...
Israel’s Displacement/Immobility Nexus in Palestine
This post is authored by Dr. Anne Irfan, Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender, and Postcolonial Studies at UCL and the author of 'A Short History of the Gaza Strip'.
open.substack.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Starting today, the journal will publish on Substack. This new platform allows our authors to share short articles inspired by their work in the journal. Our debut post features Dr Anne Irfan’s piece.
open.substack.com/pub/journalg...
open.substack.com/pub/journalg...
Sign this: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards
We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.
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September 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Sign this: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Just read something I wrote a week ago and that shit is utterly abysmal. Time to retire
September 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Just read something I wrote a week ago and that shit is utterly abysmal. Time to retire
Don't forget this place is a horrendous echo chamber
September 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Don't forget this place is a horrendous echo chamber
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Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
September 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
Forgot to post this earlier, but this piece by @dirkmoses.bsky.social is well worth a read. Subtle references to various historical and historiographical moments make it not only informative but entertaining.
blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...
blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...
A. Dirk Moses · Education after Gaza after Education after Auschwitz
Adorno’s “Education after Auschwitz” was central to German re-education, especially for leftist critics of post-genocidal Germany. That his warning against a new “reason of state” is now ignored even ...
blnreview.de
September 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Forgot to post this earlier, but this piece by @dirkmoses.bsky.social is well worth a read. Subtle references to various historical and historiographical moments make it not only informative but entertaining.
blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...
blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...
Adam Tooze is simply a legendary writer and thinker. Finally reading his "Wages of Destruction" for the first time (instead of skimming it and reading reviews) and I've never found economic history so compelling. What a phenomenal mind he has.
September 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Adam Tooze is simply a legendary writer and thinker. Finally reading his "Wages of Destruction" for the first time (instead of skimming it and reading reviews) and I've never found economic history so compelling. What a phenomenal mind he has.
PhD update: just ran out of storage on my 400GB laptop.
I have 3,900+ PDFs comprising some 30GBs
I have 3,900+ PDFs comprising some 30GBs
August 28, 2025 at 11:12 AM
PhD update: just ran out of storage on my 400GB laptop.
I have 3,900+ PDFs comprising some 30GBs
I have 3,900+ PDFs comprising some 30GBs
Just after Peter Longerich publishes his book debunking the Zustimmungsdiktatur, Götz Aly fires back with exactly the opposite conclusions:
August 27, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Just after Peter Longerich publishes his book debunking the Zustimmungsdiktatur, Götz Aly fires back with exactly the opposite conclusions:
I just know that the motivation for this review article had nothing to do with anything scholarly.
If anyone ever does this to me, just know that I will check every footnote in your books from 20 years ago :D
If anyone ever does this to me, just know that I will check every footnote in your books from 20 years ago :D
August 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I just know that the motivation for this review article had nothing to do with anything scholarly.
If anyone ever does this to me, just know that I will check every footnote in your books from 20 years ago :D
If anyone ever does this to me, just know that I will check every footnote in your books from 20 years ago :D
Does anyone know of a (preferably free) tool which I could use to map the distribution of people from a data set please? It needs to have circles or something which can grow according to the number of people from Berlin, for example.
August 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Does anyone know of a (preferably free) tool which I could use to map the distribution of people from a data set please? It needs to have circles or something which can grow according to the number of people from Berlin, for example.
Only just saw that Wulf Kansteiner has died aged 60. Very sad to learn of this. He was very kind to me when I asked him for feedback on a postdoc proposal of mine, 6-12 months ago.
August 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Only just saw that Wulf Kansteiner has died aged 60. Very sad to learn of this. He was very kind to me when I asked him for feedback on a postdoc proposal of mine, 6-12 months ago.
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Meine Edition (2016) der Papiere des Generals Gotthard Heinrici ist jetzt auf ZeitgeschichteOpen, dem Repositorium des @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social, frei zugänglich. Gut so, denn dieses Buch, das mir wichtig ist, war wegen des WBG-Konkurses nicht mehr lieferbar. open.ifz-muenchen.de/entities/pub...
Notizen aus dem Vernichtungskrieg
Kaum ein anderer Beteiligter hat den Krieg NS-Deutschlands gegen die Sowjetunion so schonungslos beschrieben wie Gotthard Heinrici. Die Briefe und Tagebücher dieses hochrangigen Generals bieten tiefe ...
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August 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Meine Edition (2016) der Papiere des Generals Gotthard Heinrici ist jetzt auf ZeitgeschichteOpen, dem Repositorium des @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social, frei zugänglich. Gut so, denn dieses Buch, das mir wichtig ist, war wegen des WBG-Konkurses nicht mehr lieferbar. open.ifz-muenchen.de/entities/pub...
I've just written an absolute masterpiece.
August 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I've just written an absolute masterpiece.