OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of German History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Heimat and Nation: Jewish Historians and the Construction of Regional Identities in Posen and Alsace-Lorraine during the German Empire	3
Introduction: Communication in the Weimar Republic	2
German-East Asian Encounters and Entanglements: Affinity in Culture and Politics since 1945	2
Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam	2
Occupiers, Humanitarian Workers, and Polish Displaced Persons in British-Occupied Germany	1
Why Destroy a Synagogue? A Reflection on Hitler’s Metaphysical Antisemitism	1
After the Nazis: The Story of Culture in West Germany	1
In Diensten des Afrikanischen Sozialismus: Tansania und die globale Entwicklungsarbeit der beiden deutschen Staaten, 1961–1990.	1
Transnational Imaginations of Socialism: Town Twinning and Local Government in ‘Red’ Italy and the GDR	1
Ideal Men and Dream Women: Computer Matchmaking in twen during the West German Sex Wave, 1967–1970	1
In Hitler’s Munich: Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism	1
How to Write about the Holocaust: The Postmodern Theory of History in Praxis	1
A Posture of Protestation: Civil Litigation and Constitutional Culture in the Reformation-Era Holy Roman Empire	1
Space and Time under Persecution: The German-Jewish Experience in the Third Reich	1
Ruin and Renewal: Civilizing Europe After World War II	1
Empress and Virgin: St Cunigunde and Female Sainthood in the Early Thirteenth Century	1
An Empire of Merchants? German Shipping, Commercial Interests and Imperial Ambitions from Latin America to Hamburg, 1888−1918	1
The Art of Occupation: Crime and Governance in American-Controlled Germany, 1944–1949	1
Citizens and Refugees: Stories from Afghanistan and Syria to Germany.	1
Internment in Switzerland during the First World War	0
Staging a Monarchical-federal Order: Wilhelm I as German Emperor	0
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949–1990	0
The Imperial Court and the Localities during the Reign of Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich III	0
Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler’s Germany	0
More than Parcels: Wartime Aid for Jews in Nazi-Era Camps and Ghettos	0

Beauty is in the Street: Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe	0
Auf Abstand. Eine Gesellschaftsgeschichte der Coronapandemie	0
1848: Erfolgsgeschichte einer gescheiterten Revolution	0
Ein Tag im März. Das Ermächtigungsgesetz und der Untergang der Weimarer Republik	0
Sozialdemokratie Global. Willy Brandt und die Sozialistische Internationale in Lateinamerika	0
Occupatio Bellica. Die deutsche Armee in Nordfrankreich 1914–1918	0
African Gowns and Turkish Buttons: Global Horizons of Material Expertise in a German Town	0
Bodies in Pain: Early Modern Suicide by Proxy	0
The Promise of Participation: European Reconstruction Work in Early Weimar Germany’s Political Culture	0
‘Under a Just King Every Soldier Is a Citizen’: Acclaiming Military Honour and Mobilizing Civic Action in the Habsburg Monarchy during the Coalition Wars	0
‘I doe not find him, howsoever our great Enemy, to have deserved such an end’: Reactions to the Assassination of Albrecht von Wallenstein, c.1634–1700	0
A New Moral World Order: Carl Alexander Simon and the German Colonization of Southern Chile	0
Erratum Notice	0
‘Mead from Riga’: The Trade and Consumption of a Hanse Cultural Good in the Late Medieval Baltic	0
Democracy, Nazi Trials, and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1945–1950	0
Intervention and State Sovereignty in Central Europe, 1500–1780	0
Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust	0
The Ambiguities of Being Stateless: Property Rights, Statelessness and Enemy Aliens in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and Germany, 1914–1930	0
Queer Lives across the Wall: Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945–1970	0
Masters in the Things of War: Rethinking Military Justice during the Thirty Years War	0
Thinking Illness in Eighteenth-Century Germany: Scholarly Melancholy and Social Critique	0
Albrecht Dürer’s Afterlife	0
Correction to: A West German Civil Movement in the 1970s: Opposition to the kooperative Schule in Nordrhein-Westfalen	0
Freigeister und Pragmatiker. Die preußischen Feldprediger 1750–1806	0
Remnants of Wehrmacht Soldiers: Burial and Commemoration Practices of German Soldiers of the Second World War in Russia and Europe, 1941–2023	0
Magie des Authentischen: das Nachleben von Krieg und Gewalt im Reenactment Re-Living the American Frontier: Western Fandoms, Reenactment, and Historical Hobbyists in Germany and America Since 1900	0
Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe	0
Meaningful Work: Cultural Frameworks of Forced Labour in Accounts of Nazi Concentration Camp Inmates	0
Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe	0
Revolution and Political Violence in Central Europe. The Deluge of 1919	0
Inscription, the Embossed Surface and the Ceremonial Sip: The Traubenpokal of Bernkastel-Kues, 1661–2001	0
Frederick the Great’s Philosophical Writings	0
Hamburg: Tor zur kolonialen Welt. Erinnerungsorte der (post-)kolonialen Globalisierung	0
Wien im Mittelalter: Zeitzeugnisse und Analysen	0
Passionate Peace: Emotions and Religious Coexistence in Later Sixteenth-Century Augsburg	0
Living the German Revolution 1918–19: Expectations, Experiences, Responses	0
The Criminal Registry in the German Empire: The ‘Cult of Previous Convictions’ and the Offender’s Right to Be Forgotten	0
Visual Collective Memories of National Socialism: Transatlantic HIV/AIDS Activism and Discourses of Persecutions	0
Listening to Human Rights: Class Conflict in Hanns Eisler’s Deutsche Sinfonie	0
Sixties EuropeStudent Revolt in 1968: France, Italy and West Germany	0
‘Enemy Aliens’ and ‘Indian Hostages’: Civilians in Dutch–German Wartime Diplomacy and International Law during the Second World War	0
The Gender Anxiety of Otto von Bismarck, 1866–1898	0
Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria	0
Anglo-Jewish Humanitarianism and the Jewish Relief Unit, 1943–1950	0
In memoriam: Alon Confino (1959–2024)	0
Clare Morton (1972–2022)	0
Animals under the Swastika	0
The Protagonists of Democratization in the Federal Republic	0
Wie das Leben so der Tod: Sterbedarstellungen von Kaisern und Königen in der Historiographie des früheren Mittelalters	0
A Badge of Injury: The Pink Triangle as Global Symbol of Memory	0

Germany’s Urban Frontiers: Nature and History on the Edge of the Nineteenth-Century City	0
Strange Bedfellows: US Occupation Officials and German Catholic Organizations	0
The Last Ghetto. An Everyday History of Theresienstadt	0
Culture from the Slums: Punk Rock in East and West Germany	0
The Colonial Endeavours of the Duchy of Courland, 1642–1698: A Forgotten Example of German Colonialism?	0
France and Germany in the South China Sea, c. 1840–1930: Maritime Competition and Imperial Power	0
‘To Live a Peaceful Life’: African American Defectors in the German Democratic Republic	0
Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany: The Fragebogen and Political Screening during the Allied Occupation	0
Germany on Their Minds: German Jewish Refugees in the United States and Their Relationships with Germany, 1938–1988	0
The Family in Modern Germany	0
Napoleonic Governance in the Netherlands and Northwest Germany: Conquest, Incorporation, and Integration	0
A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany	0
The Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton	0
‘It Would Be Better to Get Rid of It’: Abortion and the Nazi Past in Weinheim and Garmisch, c.1951	0
Wannsee: The Road to the Final Solution	0
Kracauer: A BiographyCorrespondence 1923—1966Weimar Controversies: Explorations in Popular Culture with Siegfried Kracauer	0
Information and Iron: The Role of Espionage in the Foundation of the German Empire, 1866–1871	0
Zwischenfälle im Reichsland: Überschreiten, Polizieren, Nationalisieren der deutsch-französischen Grenze (1887–1914)	0
Sex and the Nazi Soldier: Violent, Commercial and Consensual Encounters during the War in the Soviet Union, 1941–45	0
Prisoners of the World Unite: The Internationalism of the 2 June Movement from Berlin Moabit Prison	0
Denkmalpflege zwischen System und Gesellschaft. Vielfalt denkmalpflegerischer Prozesse in der DDR (1952–1975)	0
Die Selbstzeugnisse (1782 und 1793): Sämtliche Schriften	0
Viel Lärm um nichts. Eine Wahrnehmungsgeschichte des Nichtstuns in der Bundesrepublik	0
Metternich: Strategist and Visionary	0
News from Germany. The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900–1945	0
Remaking Central Europe: The League of Nations and the Former Habsburg Lands	0
Travelling Heroes—A Transcultural Re-evaluation of Kurt R. Grossmann’s Unbesungene Helden (1957), an Early Compilation of Rescue Stories	0
Legal Entanglements: Law, Rights and the Battle for Legitimacy in Divided Germany, 1945–1989	0
The Ambivalence of Gay Liberation: Male Homosexual Politics in 1970s West Germany	0
Introduction: Houses of Worship in Times of War	0
Revisiting Austria: Tourism, Space, and National Identity, 1945 to the Present	0
Forging Germans: Youth, Nation, and the National Socialist Mobilization of Ethnic Germans in Yugoslavia, 1918–1944	0
Empire of Rags and Bones: Waste and War in Nazi Germany	0
Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther’s World and Legacy	0
Im Sog der Säkularisierung. Die deutschen Kirchen in Politik und Gesellschaft (1945–1990)	0
Between Grassroots Pressure and Local Polycracy: Street Renaming in Nazi Berlin	0
Helden oder Feiglinge? Deserteure der Wehrmacht im Zweiten Weltkrieg	0
Emancipation and Constitutional Patriotism: The Centralverein and the Weimar Republican Order	0
Simple Ceramics? Design, Decorative Materiality and Anabaptist Pottery in Early Modern Central Europe	0
Photography, Reconstruction and the Cultural History of the Postwar European City	0
The Stalin Cult in East Germany and the Making of the Postwar Soviet Empire, 1945–1961	0
Sex between Body and Mind: Psychoanalysis and Sexology in the German-speaking World, 1890s–1930s	0
Von Widukind zur ‚Sassine‘: Prozesse der Konstruktion und Transformation regionaler Identität im norddeutschen Raum	0
The Firm Fried. Krupp in the Chinese Market prior to the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894/95	0
‘Real National Work’: The Politics of Nazi Race Science in Upper Silesia, 1934–1942	0
Peasants, Wars and Evil Coins: Towards a ‘Monetary Turn’ in Explaining the ‘Revolution of 1525’	0
Alphamännchen und hohe Tiere. Deutsch-deutsche Beziehungen in Tierpark und Zoo Berlin, 1955–1991Hauptstadt der Tiere. Die Geschichte des ältesten deutschen ZoosThe Zookeepers’ War: An Incredible True	0
A Stress Test for German Nationalism: Protective Custody in Alsace-Lorraine during the First World War	0
Pionier und Außenseiter: Gustav Mayer. Deutsch-jüdischer Historiker des Sozialismus	0
Palace versus City: Wilhelm II's Terrace Project,1892–1901	0
Writing German History Biographically	0
Global Moments and the Rise of Area Studies and Development Theory in Germany, 1914–1945	0
Tyrannei und Teufel: Die Wahrnehmung der Inquisition in deutschsprachigen Druckmedien im 16. Jahrhundert	0
Zeitdiagnose im Exil. Zur Deutung des Nationalsozialismus nach 1933	0
Germany: A Nation in Its Time. Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500–2000	0
Israelpolitik: German-Israeli Relations, 1949–69	0
Georg Simmel and German Culture: Unity, Variety and Modern Discontents	0
‘The Patriarchy Is Finished’: Broadcasting Women’s Emancipation on RIAS Berlin	0
Craft, Labour and Cabinets of Curiosities: Rethinking the Body of the Artisan	0
Living in Legends: Frames, Legends and the Conflict over the Hamburg Hafenstraße, 1981–1995	0
The Protestant Origins of the German Garden City, 1848–1910	0
Franz Graf von Galen 1879-1961. Ein „Miles Christianus“im Spannungsfeld zwischen Katholizismus, Adel und Nation	0
Love between Enemies: Western Prisoners of War and German Women in World War II	0
The Kaiser and the Colonies: Monarchy in the Age of Empire.	0
Nazi Camps and their Neighbouring Communities: History, Memory, and Memorialization	0
The Operetta Empire: Music Theater in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna	0
Auf der Suche nach Re/formen. Literarische Wege der Selbstlegitimation in der ›Reformatio Sigismundi‹ (1439)	0
Music in the Flesh: An Early Modern Musical Physiology	0
The Virtuous Wehrmacht: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941–1944	0
Single People and Mass Housing in Germany, 1850–1930: (No) Home Away from Home	0
Biographies of a Reformation: Religious Change and Confessional Coexistence in Upper Lusatia, 1520–1635	0
Metternich, the German Question and the Pursuit of Peace: 1840–1848	0
Editors’ Note	0
Sustainable Utopias: The Art and Politics of Hope in Germany	0
Schuldenverwaltung und Tilgung der Forderungen der Söldner des Deutschen Ordens in Preußen nach dem Zweiten Thorner Frieden. Ordensfoliant 259 und 261, Zusatzmaterial	0
Saving Nature under Socialism: Transnational Environmentalism in East Germany, 1968–1990	0
Introduction: Material Cultures and Communities in the Holy Roman Empire	0
Sacred Space, Mourning and the War Dead in Protestant Germany, 1945–	0
‘Victory or Siberia’: Imaginings of Siberia and the Memory of German POWs in the USSR	0
Im Schatten August Bebels. Sozialdemokratische Antisemitismusabwehr als Republikschutz 1918–1932	0

The Third Reich and Yugoslavia: An Economy of Fear, 1933–1941	0
The Parallel Lives of Liddy Bacroff: Transgender (Pre)History and the Tyranny of the Archive in Twentieth-Century Germany	0
Hofratsdämmerung? Verwaltung und ihr Personal in den Nachfolgestaaten der Habsburgermonarchie 1918 bis 1920	0
Treibstoff der Systeme. Kohle, Erdöl und Atomkraft im geteilten Deutschland	0
Vom drohenden Bürgerkrieg zum demokratischen Gewaltmonopol (1918–1924).	0
The Crucible of German Democracy. Ernst Troeltsch and the First World War	0
Picturing Socialism: Public Art and Design in East Germany	0
Protestant Empires: Globalizing the Reformations	0
Political Taboos in the German Democratic Republic	0
Reshaping Capitalism in Weimar and Nazi Germany	0
Fashion Metropolis Berlin, 1836–1939: The Story of the Rise and Destruction of the Jewish Fashion Industry	0
‘Very Full of Details and Excellently Executed’: Materiality and Medicine in Hans Rottenhammer’s Painted Bodies	0
End Game: The 1989 Revolution in East Germany	0
The Rebirth of Revelation: German Theology in an Age of Reason and History, 1750–1850	0
The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism	0
Policing Europe: The Origins of a European Security Network, 1794–1815	0
The Power of Persuasion: Becoming a Merchant in the 18th Century	0
The Illuminated World Chronicle: Tales from the Late Medieval City	0
Resistance and Daily Life in East Germany: District Gransee as ‘Place’	0
German Intelligence during the Second World War: The Canary Islands as a Case Study	0
Globalization, Competition and the Transformation of German Universities since the 1970s	0
Globalization in a Glass: The Rise of Pilsner Beer through Technology, Taste and EmpireA Nation Fermented: Beer, Bavaria, and the Making of Modern Germany	0
Projecting Imperial Power: New Nineteenth-Century Emperors and the Public Sphere	0
The Guardians of Concepts: Political Languages of Conservatism in Britain and West Germany, 1945–1980	0
Voting like Your Betters: The Bandwagon Effect in the Diet of the Holy Roman Empire	0
No Way to Run a Brothel? Prostitution and Policey in the Late Medieval Holy Roman Empire	0
Richard Walther Darré. Der “Reichsbauernführer”, die nationalsozialistische “Blut und Boden”-Ideologie und Hitlers Machteroberung	0
States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany	0
The Rise and Fall of the ‘World Economy’ in Weimar Germany	0
German Princes in the Prussian Army: Political Patronage and Family Networks under Frederick II, 1740–1786	0
Prostitution and Subjectivity in Late Medieval Germany	0
Messengers of Disaster: Raphael Lemkin, Jan Karski, and Twentieth-Century Genocides	0
Builders of the Third Reich: The Organisation Todt and Nazi Forced Labour	0
Photography as a Wartime Service to Family and Nation in Nazi-occupied Europe	0
Sozialdemokratie in Brandenburg (1868–1933). Lebenswege zwischen Aufbruch, Aufstieg und Abgrund	0
After the Imperialist Imagination: Two Decades of Research on Global Germany and Its Legacies	0
The Vienna Gestapo, 1938–1945: Crimes, Perpetrators, Victims	0
The Political Message of the Shrine of St. Heribert of Cologne: Church and Empire after the Investiture Contest	0
The Third Reich’s Elite Schools: A History of the Napolas	0
Die Frauen und Kinder deutscher Kriegsgefangener. Integriert, ignoriert und instrumentalisiert, 1941–1956	0
Uniform Fantasies: Soldiers, Sex, and Queer Emancipation in Imperial Germany	0
Hausgeschichten. Materielle Kultur und Familie in der Schweiz (1700–1900)	0
An Imperial Homeland: Forging German Identity in Southwest Africa	0
Building the Cathedral of Democracy: Frankfurt’s Paulskirche in Hitler’s Shadow	0
Red Metal: Die Heavy-Metal-Subkultur der DDR	0
Weltöffentlichkeit und Diktatur. Die amerikanischen Auslandskorrespondenten im »Dritten Reich«	0
Ordinary Weimar: Global Press Photography, ‘Distant Seeing’ and the Normalcy of Crisis in the 1920s	0
The Seduction of Youth: Print Culture and Homosexual Rights in the Weimar Republic	0
Transcending Dystopia: Music, Mobility, and the Jewish Community in Germany, 1945–1989	0
Anti-Heimat Cinema. The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape	0
A Nazi Camp Near Danzig. Perspectives on Shame and on the Holocaust from Stutthof	0
Violence in Defeat. The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944–1945	0
Bismarcks ewiger Bund. Eine neue Geschichte des Deutschen Kaiserreichs	0
Sensing Multiconfessionality in Early Modern Germany	0
Designing One Nation: The Politics of Economic Culture and Trade in Divided Germany	0
Armies and Ecosystems in Premodern Europe: The Meuse Region, 1250–1850	0
Testimonies of Resistance: Representations of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando	0
Dürer’s Lost Masterpiece: Art and Society at the Dawn of a Global World	0
Materialized Identities in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1750. Objects, Affects, Effects	0
Framing the Holocaust: Photographs of a Mass Shooting in Latvia, 1941	0
Classical Music in Weimar Germany: Culture and Politics Before the Third Reich	0
Hitler’s Mein Kampf and the Holocaust: A Prelude to Genocide	0
The Political Odyssey of Reinhold Schairer, 1933–1955	0
Culture in the Third Reich	0
Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War	0
‘Leaders, not Lords’: Führertum, Democracy and Nazism in the Weimar Republic	0
Migrating Memories: Romanian Germans in Modern Europe.	0
Antisemitism Before the Holocaust: Re-evaluating Antisemitic Exceptionalism in Germany and the United States, 1880–1945	0
Allies and Rivals: German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University	0
With an Iron Broom: Cleansing Berlin’s Bülowplatz of ‘Judeo-Bolshevism’, 1933–1936	0
The Kaiser’s Silver: German Nationalism and the 1913 Nationalspende for Christian Mission	0
Der Völkermord an den Sinti und Roma und die Bundesrepublik. Der lange Weg zur Anerkennung 1949–1990	0
Correction to: Introduction: Houses of Worship in Times of War	0
Zwingli: God’s Armed Prophet	0
Die geliehene Zeit eines Königs. Der »arme« Ruprecht und die Reichsfinanzen (1400–1410)	0
Skulls and Stories: Creating the Value of Bones in Johann Friedrich Blumenbach’s Collection	0
Making Enemies: British and German Missionary Personnel in East African Internment Camps during the First World War	0
Fried. Krupp’s ‘Chinese Trade’ prior to the First World War, 1895–1914	0
Comrades Betrayed: Jewish World War I Veterans Under Hitler	0
Desecration, Secularization, Restoration: Cologne’s Churches during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1792–1815	0
Impfe und herrsche. Veterinärmedizinisches Wissen und Herrschaft im kolonialen Namibia 1887–1929	0
The German Awakening: Protestant Renewal after the Enlightenment, 1815–1848	0
The History of Cancer and Emotions in Twentieth-Century Germany	0
Struggles for Belonging: Citizenship in Europe, 1900–2020	0
What’s Next? Historical Research on the GDR Three Decades after German Unification	0
Redeeming Objects: A West German Mythology	0
Dreaming in Auschwitz: The Concentration Camp in the Prisoners’ Dreams	0
Gläubige Zeiten: Religiosität im Dritten Reich	0
Medien-Intellektuelle in der Bundesrepublik	0
The Invention of International Order: Remaking Europe after Napoleon	0
Postwar Italian Journeys: Narratives of Homecoming, National Cohesion and German–Italian Friendship	0
Tuberculosis on Display: Tuberculosis Travelling Museums in Wilhelmine Germany	0
Empire of Destruction: A History of Nazi Mass Killing	0
Lutheran Churches during the Thirty Years War	0
Reconquest, Reconstruction, Resumption: Churching Poland after the Second World War	0