Professional Affiliation

Lurcy Professor of European Civilization, University of North Carolina

Expert Bio

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).

Wilson Center Project

“Taming Modernity? European Experiences in the Twentieth Century”

Project Summary

This is a reconsideration of the development of Europe in the 20th century from the vantage point of modernity. It starts with European exceptionalism, continues with competing modernities of democracy, Communism and Fascism, deals with the World Wars and the Holocaust and then goes on to the recovery in order to conclude with Europe in a global context.

Major Publications

The Rush to German Unity

After Hitler: Recivilizing Germans

Reluctant Accomplice: A Soldiers Letters from the Eastern Front