Alexander Brian Rossino (born 1966) is an American historian and writer specializing in
World War II in Poland and the
American Civil War
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Rossino is the author of ''
Hitler Strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, Ideology, and Atrocity'' (2003)
and a novel, ''Six Days in September: A Novel of Lee's Army in Maryland, 1862'' (2017). With Gene M. Thorp, he is the co-author of ''The Tale Untwisted: George McClellan and the Discovery of Lee's Lost Orders, September 13, 1862'' (2019).
Education
From June until October 1999, as a PhD candidate at
Syracuse University, Rossino held a Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies fellowship at the
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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to study "German Soldiers, the Polish Campaign, and the Nazification of the Wehrmacht". He was awarded his PhD that year for a thesis entitled "September 1939: The German army and the invasion of Poland".
''Hitler Strikes Poland''
The cover photograph for ''
Hitler Strikes Poland'' shows German film director
Leni Riefenstahl
Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl (; 22 August 1902 – 8 September 2003) was a German film director, photographer and actress known for her role in producing Nazi propaganda.
A talented swimmer and an artist, Riefenstahl also became in ...
witnessing the murder of Jews in the town of
Końskie
Końskie ( yi, Kinsk, קינצק / קינסק) is a town in south-central Poland with 20,328 inhabitants (2008), situated in the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. Historically, Końskie belongs to the province of Lesser Poland, and since its found ...
in occupied Poland.
Christopher Browning wrote: "Rossino’s fine study provides the 'missing link' between the traditional German expansionism of World War I and the 'war of annihilation' against the Soviet Union in 1941."
"Hitler Strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, Ideology, and Atrocity / Edition 1"
Barnes and Noble.
Bibliography
Books
* (2003). ''Hitler Strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, Ideology, and Atrocity''. University Press of Kansas.
* (2017). ''Six Days in September: A Novel of Lee's Army in Maryland, 1862''. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie.
* (2019) with Gene M. Thorp. ''The Tale Untwisted: George McClellan and the Discovery of Lee's Lost Orders, September 13, 1862''. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie.
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Articles
* (1997). "Destructive Impulses: German Soldiers and the Conquest of Poland". ''Holocaust and Genocide Studies''. 11(3) (Winter): 351–364.
* (1999). "Eastern Europe Through German Eyes: Soldiers' Photographs 1939–42". ''History of Photography''. 23(4) (Winter): 313–321.
* (2001). "Nazi Anti-Jewish Policy during the Polish Campaign: The Case of Einsatzgruppe von Woyrsch". ''German Studies Review''. 24 (February): 37.
* (2003). "Polish 'Neighbors' and German Invaders: Contextualizing Anti-Jewish Violence in the Bialystok District during the Opening Weeks of Operation Barbarossa". ''Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry''. 16: 431–452.
* (2003). "War of Extermination: The German Military in World War II, 1941–1944". ''Holocaust and Genocide Studies''. 17(3) (Winter): 508–511.
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References
Further reading
"Alex Rossino Online
Alexander B. Rossino
in Google scholar
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1966 births
20th-century American historians
American male non-fiction writers
21st-century American novelists
Living people
Syracuse University alumni
20th-century American male writers
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