Nicholas Stargardt (born in 1962) is Professor of History at

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, currently serving as Vice President of

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. Stargardt is the son of a German-Jewish father and Australian mother. He was born in

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, and lived in Australia, Japan, England and Germany. He studied at

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, and is a fellow of

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, in the

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, where he teaches modern European history. He has written widely on the history of modern Germany, political and social thought and the Holocaust. He has two sons. He is the author of ''The German Idea of Militarism: Radical and Socialist Critics'' (1994), an intellectual and political history of anti-militarist movements in Germany before the First World War, and of ''Witnesses of War: Children’s Lives under the Nazis'' (2005), which offered the first social history of Nazi Germany in the Second World War through the eyes of children. His 2015 book, '' The German War'', explores the attitudes of German citizens during the

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References

Bibliography

*''The German Idea of Militarism: Radical and Socialist Critics 1866-1914'', 1994, Cambridge. *''Witnesses of War: Children's Lives under the Nazis'', Jonathan Cape, 2005, . *'' The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945'' Bodley Head/Basic Books, 2015.

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Biography - Oxford UniversityBook Review - The Times
1962 births Living people Australian people of German-Jewish descent Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford Historians of Nazism Historians of World War II Australian historians {{australia-writer-stub