PUBLICATIONS
RESISTANCE AND CIVIL COURAGE
Auschwitz: History and Icon · 2020
Examines how Auschwitz functions as a historical site and a global symbol of evil, arguing that moral understanding requires confronting lived experience, memory, and historical context rather than isolating Auschwitz as an abstract or incomprehensible event.
30 Years After the Berlin Wall Came Down, East and West Germany Are Still Divided· 2019
Examines persistent political, economic, and cultural divides following German reunification, showing how uneven integration fostered long-term resentment, identity fractures, and democratic dissatisfaction in the former East.
Trump Versus Hitler: What We Can Learn from Weimar German· 2016
Uses historical comparison to examine how democratic institutions erode when political elites normalize authoritarian rhetoric, emphasizing that democracies often fail through incremental accommodation rather than sudden collapse.
GENDER, FAMILY AND POLITICAL CHOICE
Why Did Women Vote for Hitler? Long-Forgotten Essays Hold Some Answers· 2020
One of the earliest public accounts of the Rosenstrasse protest, reconstructing survivor memories of collective action and solidarity during the 1943 roundup of Jews in Berlin, and restoring a forgotten episode of civilian resistance.
Dissent in Nazi Germany · 1992
Challenges the assumption of total obedience under Hitler by documenting cases in which public protest forced policy reversals, including the Rosenstrasse protest, revealing social limits on Nazi power even within a dictatorship.
AUTHORIAL POWER AND SOCIAL CONSTRAINT
Jemand war für mich da (Someone Was There for Me)· 1989
One of the earliest public accounts of the Rosenstrasse protest, reconstructing survivor memories of collective action and solidarity during the 1943 roundup of Jews in Berlin, and restoring a forgotten episode of civilian resistance.
Intermarriage, the 1943 Rosenstrasse Protests and Social Constraints on Hitler’s Power· 2025
Analyzes how non-Jewish spouses mobilized publicly to demand the release of Jewish family members, demonstrating that social pressure and visibility could compel the Nazi regime to retreat despite its repressive authority.
Rosenstraße (Die Wahrheit jenseits der Akten)· 2003
Responds to debates over archival interpretation by arguing that eyewitness testimony is essential to understanding the Rosenstrasse protest, cautioning against relying exclusively on official Nazi records to assess historical causality.