Patrick Gilner, Ph.D.
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Patrick Gilner, Ph.D.
@patrickgilner.bsky.social
I am a historian specializing in 20th century Germany, academic coach, recovering academic, disability activist, narrator, and chihuahua-dad.

I also like sci-fi/fantasy, ice hockey, and gaming (both board and video).
“The Politics of Reckoning: German War Crimes, Allied Justice, and the Meaning of Punishment after the First World War.” (Copyright: Dr. Patrick Gilner, 2019)

Abstract: patrickgilner.com/dissertation/

A short preview is available from ProQuest: media.proquest.com/media/hms/PR...
Dissertation
Dissertation Title: “The Politics of Reckoning: German War Crimes, Allied Justice, and the Meaning of Punishment after the First World War.” My dissertation, “The Politics of Reck…
patrickgilner.com
January 4, 2026 at 9:31 PM
If you are interested in reading it, just send me a message and I can send you a copy directly. Otherwise, an abstract and short preview are available at the links below:
Dissertation
Dissertation Title: “The Politics of Reckoning: German War Crimes, Allied Justice, and the Meaning of Punishment after the First World War.” My dissertation, “The Politics of Reck…
patrickgilner.com
January 4, 2026 at 9:31 PM
I am definitely interested!
April 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
And that's exactly how it's done! Fascists wants us isolated. And that's because we survive theough community.
April 18, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Oh wow! Thank you for this resource!
April 17, 2025 at 3:23 AM
And these were not Germans who had been imprisoned or brutalized in the camps, but rather Germans whose only knowledge of the camps came from German press reports and rumors/grapevine.

It really hits home how fascism will permeate everything and colonize even one's most interior thoughts.
April 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
But I just finished reading Richard J. Evans' book, Hitler's People, and in the Luise Solmitz chapter (if I recall right) he notes that many Germans already were reporting nightmares about the camps by August and September 1933.
April 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
An area of the history of the Third Reich that I have only barely read on, but which fascinates me, is how stressful it could be. I knew that living under dictatorship influenced the kind of dreams that people had, especially those who were targeted by the regime...
April 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
and not another corporate leech whose success is built on marketing, propaganda, Myth, and social engineering made possible by inordinate access to capital and resources.
March 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
In his pathetic quest to be lauded as a polymath and one-man super-human oracle, he has not only discredited his own feeble facade, but highlighted the world's true need for specialized expertise and experts, ...
March 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
"Technological progress, particularly the advent of smartphones, has led to an expectation of being always available and a pressure to react and respond in real time that did not exist 20 years ago."
March 8, 2025 at 1:41 AM