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
In case of interest, this is from a forthcoming piece of mine in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
In case of interest, this is from a forthcoming piece of mine in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
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
Hitler was apparently the average millennial
September 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Hitler was apparently the average millennial
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
Entertaining given the current mutterings about reintroducing conscription is the fact that, when Hitler did it in Germany in 1935, older people were less excited about war per se than the fact that "young people are finally being taken to task". Sound familiar? Heh.
P.172, Longerich, UW (2025).
P.172, Longerich, UW (2025).
July 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Entertaining given the current mutterings about reintroducing conscription is the fact that, when Hitler did it in Germany in 1935, older people were less excited about war per se than the fact that "young people are finally being taken to task". Sound familiar? Heh.
P.172, Longerich, UW (2025).
P.172, Longerich, UW (2025).
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....
July 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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....
Coming soon to the Journal of Genocide Research, a new forum with an initial piece by me followed by responses from 4 other scholars:
June 28, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Coming soon to the Journal of Genocide Research, a new forum with an initial piece by me followed by responses from 4 other scholars:
This is potentially significant no?
June 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
This is potentially significant no?
What is the reason for thinking that Iran will keep to its nuclear obligations any more than last time?
June 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
What is the reason for thinking that Iran will keep to its nuclear obligations any more than last time?
Nice, got a 3 month fellowship at the Refugees Studies Centre of the Uni of Oxford, in Jan 2026. I'll be doing prep for my planned postdoc, which will use 100s of contemporary/post-facto testimonies, & compare the differences between the 2 source types, to explain when/why 'Jews' fled Nazi Germany.
May 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Nice, got a 3 month fellowship at the Refugees Studies Centre of the Uni of Oxford, in Jan 2026. I'll be doing prep for my planned postdoc, which will use 100s of contemporary/post-facto testimonies, & compare the differences between the 2 source types, to explain when/why 'Jews' fled Nazi Germany.
A while ago @orelb.bsky.social surprised me by writing a lovely summary for his numerous friends on Facebook of my recent article in @conteurohistory.bsky.social. Here is his insightful commentary, badly translated from Hebrew, and a link to my article is here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
May 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
A while ago @orelb.bsky.social surprised me by writing a lovely summary for his numerous friends on Facebook of my recent article in @conteurohistory.bsky.social. Here is his insightful commentary, badly translated from Hebrew, and a link to my article is here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
It's always good to connect with various German systems of movement. (Note: I never asked them to send it to London 😭)
May 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
It's always good to connect with various German systems of movement. (Note: I never asked them to send it to London 😭)
It's headlines like this which give people the impression that Dachau was a death camp. The quoted Jew presumably was referring to what might have happened after the 1938 pogrom had his ancestry been known, but scrolling lay people will never know that.
May 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
It's headlines like this which give people the impression that Dachau was a death camp. The quoted Jew presumably was referring to what might have happened after the 1938 pogrom had his ancestry been known, but scrolling lay people will never know that.
Me: have I got the fellowship?
Them:
Them:
May 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Me: have I got the fellowship?
Them:
Them:
In fact, this was already known ages ago, this being a quote from Longerich, 2010, p225
May 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
In fact, this was already known ages ago, this being a quote from Longerich, 2010, p225
And in fact all this was known ages ago, this is p225 of Longerich (2010)
May 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
And in fact all this was known ages ago, this is p225 of Longerich (2010)
Edinburgh Uni library system doing an absolute madness here:
April 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Edinburgh Uni library system doing an absolute madness here:
Sometimes historical coincidences are poetic. In late 1944, Hitler personally ordered that 'Mischlinge' and those in 'mixed marriages' should be sacked by 1 May, 1945 if they couldn't be transferred. Little did he know, his own sacking was to take place just one day prior.
Satisfying.
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Satisfying.
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March 29, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Sometimes historical coincidences are poetic. In late 1944, Hitler personally ordered that 'Mischlinge' and those in 'mixed marriages' should be sacked by 1 May, 1945 if they couldn't be transferred. Little did he know, his own sacking was to take place just one day prior.
Satisfying.
🗃
Satisfying.
🗃
Arrived today! I always enjoy reading the distilled wisdom of an experienced historian when they are no longer under pressure to use new sources or find new topics.
March 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Arrived today! I always enjoy reading the distilled wisdom of an experienced historian when they are no longer under pressure to use new sources or find new topics.
Quite happy with my research record on the USC Shoah Visual History Archive. The 0 projects bit ain't quite true though.
February 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Quite happy with my research record on the USC Shoah Visual History Archive. The 0 projects bit ain't quite true though.