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....
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On Feb 22 I'll be talking with Kobi Kabalek about his stimulating and even potentially controversial new book. The event is online and anyone can attend. My comments will be informed by debates on German popular opinion and the connection between Holocaust memory and historiographical trends.
February 6, 2026 at 1:04 PM
On Feb 22 I'll be talking with Kobi Kabalek about his stimulating and even potentially controversial new book. The event is online and anyone can attend. My comments will be informed by debates on German popular opinion and the connection between Holocaust memory and historiographical trends.
On Feb 22 I'll be talking with Kobi Kabalek about his stimulating and even potentially controversial new book. The event is online and anyone can attend. My comments will be informed by debates on German popular opinion and the connection between Holocaust memory and historiographical trends.
February 6, 2026 at 1:04 PM
On Feb 22 I'll be talking with Kobi Kabalek about his stimulating and even potentially controversial new book. The event is online and anyone can attend. My comments will be informed by debates on German popular opinion and the connection between Holocaust memory and historiographical trends.
First they came for the Lit Review
February 5, 2026 at 9:43 PM
First they came for the Lit Review
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Liebe deutsche Autoren, im Namen der Wissenschaft bitte ich Sie: Führen Sie in Ihren Büchern nicht nur Personenregister, sondern auch Sachregister.
January 29, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Liebe deutsche Autoren, im Namen der Wissenschaft bitte ich Sie: Führen Sie in Ihren Büchern nicht nur Personenregister, sondern auch Sachregister.
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Really looking forward to this!
Feel free to come out! It's free and online!
Feel free to come out! It's free and online!
January 25, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Really looking forward to this!
Feel free to come out! It's free and online!
Feel free to come out! It's free and online!
Trump isn't following the Hitler script insofar as the script is very common amongst all dictators, and not just fascists. Stalin very famously involed the memory of being surrounded by Western powers during the earlier civil war to justify terror tactics in the 1930s (and other moments too).
A dominant theme of Hitler's speeches in the late 1930s is that Germany was surrounded by threats. These threats were imaginary: it was Nazi Germany that threatened other nations. But they were used to justify pre-emptive attacks. Trump is following this script.
January 10, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Trump isn't following the Hitler script insofar as the script is very common amongst all dictators, and not just fascists. Stalin very famously involed the memory of being surrounded by Western powers during the earlier civil war to justify terror tactics in the 1930s (and other moments too).
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And now there is some coverage of my work in a Spanish Jewish outlet, which appears to have translated the Jerusalem Post piece: itongadol.com/cultura/como...
Cómo las categorías nazis de "medio judío" y "un cuarto de judío" aún determinan quién es judío - Itón Gadol
Cómo las categorías nazis de "medio judío" y "un cuarto de judío" aún determinan quién es judío
itongadol.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
And now there is some coverage of my work in a Spanish Jewish outlet, which appears to have translated the Jerusalem Post piece: itongadol.com/cultura/como...
Can anyone recommend Viennese archives which have a collection of Jewish (and "Jewish") ego-documents? I've got the VWI, IKG, DOEW, anything else?
December 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Can anyone recommend Viennese archives which have a collection of Jewish (and "Jewish") ego-documents? I've got the VWI, IKG, DOEW, anything else?
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I asked our university's official AI assistant to draw a map of Poland in 1941.
Great stuff. Glad we are steering our students toward this helpful resource.
Great stuff. Glad we are steering our students toward this helpful resource.
December 22, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I asked our university's official AI assistant to draw a map of Poland in 1941.
Great stuff. Glad we are steering our students toward this helpful resource.
Great stuff. Glad we are steering our students toward this helpful resource.
Not me going to Newcastle for a conference tomorrow the day after they lose to Sunderland 💀 😭
December 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Not me going to Newcastle for a conference tomorrow the day after they lose to Sunderland 💀 😭
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When people you know make the news. In a good way. @harrylegg.bsky.social
www.jpost.com/history/arti...
www.jpost.com/history/arti...
Nazi rules on half-Jews and quarter-Jews still define Jews | The Jerusalem Post
Under Nazi law, these people were grouped under the term "Mischlinge" and bureaucratically labelled as “half-Jews” or “quarter-Jews,” depending on how many grandparents were recorded as Jewish.
www.jpost.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
When people you know make the news. In a good way. @harrylegg.bsky.social
www.jpost.com/history/arti...
www.jpost.com/history/arti...
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Very surprised but grateful that the Jerusalem Post of all newspapers has written a favourable piece on my recent Journal of Genocide Research article. It seems they really understood the spirit behind it, even if they slightly misread the specifics:
www.jpost.com/history/arti...
www.jpost.com/history/arti...
Nazi rules on half-Jews and quarter-Jews still define Jews | The Jerusalem Post
Under Nazi law, these people were grouped under the term "Mischlinge" and bureaucratically labelled as “half-Jews” or “quarter-Jews,” depending on how many grandparents were recorded as Jewish.
www.jpost.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Very surprised but grateful that the Jerusalem Post of all newspapers has written a favourable piece on my recent Journal of Genocide Research article. It seems they really understood the spirit behind it, even if they slightly misread the specifics:
www.jpost.com/history/arti...
www.jpost.com/history/arti...
Very surprised but grateful that the Jerusalem Post of all newspapers has written a favourable piece on my recent Journal of Genocide Research article. It seems they really understood the spirit behind it, even if they slightly misread the specifics:
www.jpost.com/history/arti...
www.jpost.com/history/arti...
Nazi rules on half-Jews and quarter-Jews still define Jews | The Jerusalem Post
Under Nazi law, these people were grouped under the term "Mischlinge" and bureaucratically labelled as “half-Jews” or “quarter-Jews,” depending on how many grandparents were recorded as Jewish.
www.jpost.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Very surprised but grateful that the Jerusalem Post of all newspapers has written a favourable piece on my recent Journal of Genocide Research article. It seems they really understood the spirit behind it, even if they slightly misread the specifics:
www.jpost.com/history/arti...
www.jpost.com/history/arti...
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Historians on hiring, tenure, and promotion committees should be cautious about relying on Google Scholar, and we need to fight against others using it to assess us. I just noticed three citations to my articles in an American Historical Review article by Jo Guldi, and none show up in my profile.
December 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Historians on hiring, tenure, and promotion committees should be cautious about relying on Google Scholar, and we need to fight against others using it to assess us. I just noticed three citations to my articles in an American Historical Review article by Jo Guldi, and none show up in my profile.
Did some teaching and then wrote some blogs about teaching and am now "Associate Fellow" of something or rather. Nice.
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Did some teaching and then wrote some blogs about teaching and am now "Associate Fellow" of something or rather. Nice.
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
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October 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
🦋 With Bluesky's membership growing, here's a reminder that we've put together not one but TWO starter packs of people, journals and institutions working and publishing in our field.
Follow one contemporary European historian, get 149 free!
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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
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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...
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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.
petition.parliament.uk
September 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Sign this: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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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.