Select Publications
Books
2019, Allied Internment Camps in Occupied Germany: Extrajudicial Detention in the Name of Denazification, 1945–1950, Cambridge University Press, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108767538
,2008, Playing Politics with History: The Bundestag Inquiries into East Germany, Berghahn Books, New York, http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BeattiePlaying
,Book Chapters
2021, 'Die Auseinandersetzung mit den sowjetischen Speziallagern in Deutschland: Eine wechselvolle Geschichte mit beharrlichen Tendenzen', in Landau J; Heitzer E (ed.), Zwischen Entnazifizierung und Besatzungspolitik Die sowjetischen Speziallager 1945-1950 im Kontext, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen, pp. 267 - 274
,2021, 'Die sowjetischen Speziallager im Kontext der alliierten Internierung und Entnazifizierung', in Landau J; Heitzer E (ed.), Zwischen Entnazifizierung und Besatzungspolitik Die sowjetischen Speziallager 1945-1950 im Kontext, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen, pp. 43 - 60
,2018, 'The Allied Internment of German Civilians in Occupied Germany: Cooperation and Conflict in the Western Zones, 1945–9', in Erlichmann C; Knowles C (ed.), Transforming Occupation in the Western Zones of Germany Politics, Everyday Life and Social Interactions, 1945-55, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, pp. 81 - 96
,2018, 'Verdiente Strafe des harten Kerns oder ungerechte Besatzungsmaßnahme? Die SS und die alliierte Internierung im besetzten Deutschland', in Schulte JE; Wildt M (ed.), Die SS nach 1945: Entschuldungsnarrative, populäre Mythen, europäischen Erinnerungsdiskurse, V&R unipress, Göttingen, pp. 57 - 74
,2017, 'L’internamento dei civili tedeschi dopo la seconda guerra mondiale e la questione della violenza', in Acciai E; Panvini G; Poesia C; Rovatti T (ed.), Oltre il 1945: Violenza, conflitto sociale, ordine pubblico nel dopoguerra europeo, Viella, Rome, pp. 105 - 120
,2016, 'Gedenkstätten als Katalysatoren geschichtspolitischer Konflikte: Umstrittene Erinnerung und Konkurrenz der Opfer', in Heitzer E; Morsch G; Traba R; Woniak K (ed.), Von Mahnstätten über zeithistorische Museen zu Orten des Massentourismus? Gedenkstätten an Orten von NS-Verbrechen in Polen und Deutschland, Metropol Verlag, Berlin, pp. 84 - 94
,2015, 'Post-Communist Truth Commissions: Between Transitional Justice and the Politics of History', in Stan L; Nedelsky N (ed.), Post-Communist Transitional Justice: Lessons from Twenty-Five Years of Experience, Cambridge University Press, pp. 213 - 232, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/law/public-international-law/post-communist-transitional-justice-lessons-twenty-five-years-experience
,2013, 'Ein neuer Historikerstreit? Kommunismus und Nationalsozialismus in der deutschen Erinnerungs- und Geschichtspolitik seit 1990', in Benz W (ed.), Ein Kampf um Deutungshoheit: Politik, Opferinteressen und historische Forschung. Die Auseinandersetzung um die Gedenk- und Begegnungsstätte Leistikowstraße Potsdam, Metropol Verlag, Berlin, pp. 16 - 36
,2012, 'A 1950s Revival: Cold War Culture in Reunified Germany', in Vowinckel A; Payk MM; Lindenberger T (ed.), Cold War Cultures: Perspectives on Eastern and Western European Societies, Berghahn Books, New York, pp. 299 - 320, http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=VowinckelCold
,2012, 'Die Weichen stellen für die Zukunft der DDR-Erinnerung? Rückblick auf die Enquete-Kommission des Bundestages zur Aufarbeitung von Geschichte und Folgen der SED-Diktatur in Deutschland', in Sabrow M; Bosch F (ed.), Zeiträume: Potsdamer Almanach des Zentrums für Zeithistorische Forschung, Wallstein, Göttingen, pp. 20 - 33
,2011, 'The Politics of Remembering the GDR: Official and State-Mandated Memory since 1990', in Clarke D; Wölfel U (ed.), Remembering the German Democratic Republic: Divided Memory in a United Germany, Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp. 23 - 36
,2010, 'The Fight in the Prison Car Park: Memorializing Germany's "Double Past" in Torgau since 1990', in Niven B; Paver C (ed.), Memorialization in Germany since 1945, Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp. 328 - 338
,2007, 'Orte des Terrors oder der "stalinistischen Entnazifizierung"? Zeitgenössische britische Wahrnehmungen sowjetischer Speziallager in der SBZ', in Barker P; Ohse M-D; Tate D (ed.), Views from Abroad: die DDR aus britischer Perspektive, W. Bertelsmann Verlag, Bielefeld, pp. 67 - 78
,2006, 'The Victims of Totalitarianism and the Centrality of Nazi Genocide: Continuity and Change in German Commemorative Politics', in Niven B (ed.), Germans as Victims: Contemporary Germany and the Third Reich, Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp. 147 - 163
,2005, 'The Past in the Politics of Divided and Unified Germany', in Friedman MP; Kenney P (ed.), Partisan Histories: The Past in Contemporary Global Politics, Palgrave MacMillan, New York, pp. 17 - 38
,Journal articles
2023, 'Peter Howson. Britain and the German Churches 1945–1950: The Role of the Religious Affairs Branch in the British Zone. Studies in Modern British Religious History 43. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2021. Pp. 305. $125.00 (cloth).', Journal of British Studies, 62, pp. 1101 - 1103, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2023.174
,2019, 'Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the Twentieth Century', Australian Journal of Politics & History, 65, pp. 505 - 507, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12612
,2017, ''Lobby for the Nazi Elite'? the protestant churches and civilian internment in the British zone of occupied Germany, 1945-1948', German History, 35, pp. 43 - 70, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghw140
,2011, '"Sowjetische KZs auf deutschem Boden": Die sowjetischen Speziallager und der bundesdeutsche Antikommunismus', Jahrbuch für historische Kommunismusforschung, 2011, pp. 119 - 137, https://kommunismusgeschichte.de/article/detail/sowjetische-kzs-auf-deutschem-boden-die-sowjetischen-speziallager-und-der-bundesdeutsche-antikom/
,2010, 'Between Histories and Memories: Torgau's Memorial Museum for Germany’s Short Twentieth Century', Museum and Society, 8, pp. 37 - 55, https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/article/view/150
,2009, 'An Evolutionary Process: Contributions of the Bundestag’s Inquiries into East Germany to an Understanding of the Role of Truth Commissions', International Journal of Transitional Justice, 3, pp. 229 - 249, https://academic.oup.com/ijtj/article/3/2/229/2356938?guestAccessKey=15c9c979-bd0f-4d9c-ad3e-82bc093cd073
,2008, 'Beyond "Restoration"? Assessing and Accounting for West German Liberalization and Democratization, 1945-1965', European History Quarterly, 38, pp. 101 - 113
,2007, 'Learning from the Germans? History and Memory in German and European Projects of Integration', PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 4, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/portal/article/view/483/451
,Other
2019, Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the Twentieth Century and Lions and Lambs: Conflict in Weimar and the Creation of Post-Nazi Germany., WILEY, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12611
,2019, The Euro Crisis and European Identities: Political and Media Discourse in Germany, Ireland and Poland, ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2018.1543178
,2017, The 20th Century: Time Experience and Time Research in divided Germany, OXFORD UNIV PRESS, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghx033
,2017, The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022009417702779i
,2013, Walls, Borders, Boundaries: Spatial and Cultural Practices in Europe, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0008938913001246
,2005, "Until the last drop of good blood" The kidnapping of "racially valuable" children and nazi racial policy in occupied Eastern Europe
,2005, Colonialism and the holocaust: Towards an archeology of genocide
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