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Neil Gregor
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Professor of Modern European History, University of Southampton. The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany (University of Chicago Press, May 2025). Things German, musical, historical, political, with some bicycles and mountains https://bit.ly/3ZwwJlM .. more

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · May 2
Well look what the postie brought!

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Hedwig Richter @hedwigrichter.bsky.social · 1d
Die Historikerin Gisela Bock ist gestorben. In der FAZ ein Nachruf von Daniel Schönpflug
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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 4d
It's a great honour to have been invited to speak about my book in Berlin again, this time in German, and this time at the @topographie.de - Topographie des Terrors - on 10 December. Details here - do come along if you are in Berlin!
www.topographie.de/veranstaltun...
Das Sinfoniekonzert im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland
www.topographie.de

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Waveybobson @bobbybaerchen.bsky.social · 6d
Honig wach auf die @zeit.de hat einen politischen Kompass fallengelassen auf dem die Grünen links der Linken sind und die Nazipartei Mitte-rechts
Politischer Kompass aus der Mitte-Umfrage der ZEIT Die Abstimmungen ergeben eine Pyramide, die meisten haben mittig abgestimmt. Die Mitte befindet sich, oh Wunder, laut Zeit zwischen Union und SPD. Mitte links finden sich die Linke und links davon die Grünen. Ja, richtig gelesen, die ZEIT ordnet die Grünen linker als die Linke ein. Mitte rechts dann die gesichert rechtsextreme Nazipartei. Mein Ergebnis besagt komischerweise, dass 99% rechter als ich abgestimmt haben.

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 6d
This is quite worrying.

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 6d
Well - if you out yourself as having an intimate knowledge of Bay City Rollers lyrics then you are obviously open to accusations that you are drunk as a lord in the middle of the afternoon. But I did mean that your talents deserve greater recognition!

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 6d
Hugh you are clearly wasted here.

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 8d
Karl Lueger dividing the spirits as ever….

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Ann D.P. 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @anadiplosis.bsky.social · 10d
Hörenswertes Interview

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Das Sinfoniekonzert in Nazi-Deutschland - Historiker Neil Gregor mit neuem Buch
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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 10d
Remind me to give another lecture in Vienna sometime.

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 11d
Huge pleasure to talk at the Uni. f. Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna this evening - thanks to the audience for stomaching my German and for their really penetrating questions.

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 13d
You still have time to make it to Vienna for this!

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Gastvortrag | Neil Gregor: Das Sinfoniekonzert in Nazi-Deutschland: Orchester und deren Publika – Österreichische Gesellschaft für Musikwissenschaft
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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 18d
Here's hoping that the @financialtimes.com is right, and that there has been a rallying around of the anti-fascist constituency to stop the far Right. An anti-Farage popular front would put the weasel back in his place.

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Labour suffers seismic by-election defeat to Plaid Cymru in Caerphilly
Loss of seat for first time in century deals blow to Keir Starmer’s leadership ahead of Welsh elections in May
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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 20d
Certainly interesting trying to get in and out, or return back through internal doors with one-way entrances.... But thanks for coming!

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 22d
Digital edition of IDS (IU Bloomington student paper, now in its 158th year) does continue to publish real news, including this shocking story: www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
Jewish Studies director replacement ‘unprecedented,’ students and faculty say
Dean Rick Van Kooten later held a nomination process one faculty member called “symbolic.”
www.idsnews.com

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Decolonial Memories @colonial-memories.bsky.social · Oct 12
Leseempfehlung!!

„A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa“

Von Matthew P. Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social

Oxford Studies in Modern European History
Titelseite des erwähnten Buchs

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Harald Schmid @haschmi.bsky.social · Oct 10
In der Deutung dieser reizenden Begebenheit bin ich noch unentschieden zwischen "großes Kino" und "Untergang des Abendlandes".
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Landgericht Lüneburg: Ghostwriter von Doktorandin verklagt
Eine Doktorandin verklagt ihren Ghostwriter, weil er seinen Job schlecht erledigt habe. Hat ihr niemand gesagt, dass man Qualifikationsschriften selbst schreiben muss?
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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · Oct 9
For Oxford colleagues - 21 October:

talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/326...
The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany: Orchestras and their Audiences
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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · Oct 6
Interesting enough about Kuehne & Nagel but the @financialtimes.com (of all newspapers!) should know that the suggestion that German companies are only now being forced to engage with their difficult pasts is just nonsense - this has been a live topic for a good 30 years.

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German logistics billionaire faces questions over Nazi-era legacy
Klaus-Michael Kuehne has repeatedly declined to address growing evidence of his company’s wartime conduct
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StanleyBurtonCentre @uolsbc.bsky.social · Sep 26
📣 IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE UPCOMING STRIKE at the University of Leicester, Prof. Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social has CANCELLED his talk next week! The strike takes place in response to the threat of staff cuts with History being one of the areas affected: www.uculeicester.org.uk/information-...

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · Sep 26
www.ft.com/content/891e...
Menzies Campbell, politician and sportsman, 1941-2025
Politician brought up in Glasgow tenement was key figure in Liberal Democrats’ success in 2000s
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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · Sep 24
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German far-right cellist in hot water over trips to Moscow
The AfD’s Matthias Moosdorf says music should be free from ‘political crap’
www.ft.com

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Claas Gefroi @claasgefroi.bsky.social · Sep 21
Eine Organisation, die gar nicht existiert, soll überall verboten und ihe nicht existierenden Mitglieder verhaftet werden. Bis vor wenigen Jahren wäre solches politisches Personal ausgelacht und zum Psychiater geschickt worden. Heute bekleidet es Präsidenten- und Ministerämter.
Meldung von WELT: Auch die EU soll Antifa als „Terrororganisation" einstufen, fordert Ungarns Außenminister to.welt.de/SWF31Ar

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Elisabetta Girelli @elisabg.bsky.social · Sep 14
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Hello there! Could I possibly ask you to share this CfC on Masculinities in Weimar Cinema? :)
WEIMAR CFC
WEIMAR CFC
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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · Sep 12
You can wear one pair on your nose, and the other on your forehead, and just call it a tribute to the Two Ronnies?

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · Sep 12
Had ‘em for two years and never really liked them, I have to say. It took 2-3 weeks to adjust, after a fashion, but…..

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · Sep 7
Very much looking forward to speaking at the Stanley Burton Centre on 1 October - do come along and support the brilliant work of our colleagues in the Department of History at the University of Leicester.
Writing Cultural Histories of Nazi Germany : Thoughts from the Concert Hall
Stanley Burton Centre hosts Prof. Neil Gregor on Nazi Germany, music & society. Free talk, open to historians, students & the public.
www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · Sep 6
Your periodic reminder that the 'hostile environment' was pioneered by the previous Labour government.
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ID cards are an idea whose time has finally come
The case for introducing digital authentication has become irresistible
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Sep 5
‘Prejudice against the disabled was still so widespread that in 1980 a Frankfurt court ordered the reimbursement of the cost of a hotel to a tourist who had been upset by the presence of a group of guests with cerebral palsy.’

Richard J. Evans on German eugenics: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Richard J. Evans · Alien to the Community: Eugenics in Germany
In Hitler’s mind, eugenics was part of Germany’s long-term preparation for victory in the struggle between races....
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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · Sep 5
A nice post from @unisouthampton.bsky.social remembering Edgar Feuchtwanger, whose generosity to me as his rather less illustrious replacement as tutor in Gernan history i remember well www.linkedin.com/posts/univer...
Today we’re remembering the remarkable historian Dr Edgar Feuchtwanger, who passed away aged 100. Edgar was once Hitler’s neighbour in Munich before fleeing Nazi Germany as a Jewish refugee. He… | Un...
Today we’re remembering the remarkable historian Dr Edgar Feuchtwanger, who passed away aged 100. Edgar was once Hitler’s neighbour in Munich before fleeing Nazi Germany as a Jewish refugee. He later...
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