“No New Gestapo!”: Legacies of Nazism in the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution

Profs. Constantin Goschler and Michael Wala
Department of History
Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany (RUB)

Discussant: Prof. Benjamin Hett
Dept. of History, Hunter College and the Graduate Center

Constantin Goschler holds the Chair in Contemporary History at the Ruhr University, Bochum. His research includes intelligence services and domestic security, transitional justice, reparations and culture of remembrance in Europe, Jewish history after 1945, biopolitics & pop science. Among many other works, he is co-editor, with M. Dean and P. Ther, of Robbery and Restitution: The Conflict over Jewish Property in Europe (New York: Berghahn Books, 2007).

Michael Wala is Professor of North American History at Ruhr University, Bochum. His research focuses on intelligence and security issues, American-German relations, American culture in Europe, and the American imagination of the world. He is co-editor, with H. Bungert und J. Heitmann, of Secret Intelligence in the Twentieth Century (London: Routledge, 2003).

Professors Goschler and Wala are authors of the forthcoming volume
Keine neue Gestapo! Das Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, 1950-1975.
[No New Gestapo! The German Office for Protection of the Constitution, 1950–1975]

Thursday March 19, 2015
The Graduate Center | Room C202

This event was co-sponsored by the Ph.D. Programs in History and Political Science.