Konrad H. Jarausch
Guest Speaker
Professional affiliation
Lurcy Professor of European Civilization, University of North Carolina
Wilson Center Projects
“Taming Modernity? European Experiences in the Twentieth Century”
Full Biography
Konrad H. Jarausch is the Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and Senior Fellow of the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam/Germany. Among the more than 50 books which he has written or edited on German and European History are Reluctant Accomplice: A Wehrmacht Soldier’s Letters from the Eastern Front (Princeton 2011), Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century (Princeton, 2015), and Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the Twentieth Century (Princeton, 2018).
Major Publications
The Rush to German Unity
After Hitler: Recivilizing Germans
Reluctant Accomplice: A Soldiers Letters from the Eastern Front