Faculty of Modern and听Medieval Languages and Linguistics Raised Faculty Building 海角社区 Sidgwick Avenue 海角社区 CB3 9DA United Kingdom
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Darren is a historian of modern Germany. He received a PhD from 海角社区 and his Bachelor's and Master's degrees听 from University College Dublin. He has held fellowships at the Humboldt and Technical universities in Berlin,听and at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich. He is also a Fellow at Wolfson College, 海角社区.
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- Modern Germany
- Modern European History
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- The Third Reich and World War II
- The Weimar Republic
- Germany since 1945
- Sports History
- Politics and Ideology
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Darren has recently co-edited a Handbook on Nazi Ideology and a Critical Edition of the writings of the Austrian-Jewish sports journalist Willy Meisl. At present, he is finishing two monographs: the first a history of the upper ranks of the civil service in Nazi Germany, the second a biography of Meisl.
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Books (as Editor)
With Christopher Young,听Willy Meisl 鈥� 鈥楰ing of the Sports Journalists鈥�. A Jewish Career in Times of Change, 1918鈥�1945听(Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Brill, 2025).
With Julien Reitzenstein,听Handbook听Ideologies in National Socialism, Volume 1: Ideology and听Individuals (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Brill, 2024).
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Journal Articles
'Nazi Constitutional Designs. The State Secretaries' Meetings and the Annexation of East Central Europe',听European History Quarterly听54, 2 (2024): 337-357.
鈥樷�淪elf-Coordination鈥� and its Origins. Civil Servants and Regime Change in 1933 and 1918/19鈥�,听Contemporary European History听33, 1听(2024), pp.70-83.
'Johannes Krohn and the German Social Insurance System under Democracy and Dictatorship',听Vierteljahrschrift fuer Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte听110 (2023): 471-493.
With 听Christopher Young, 'The Will of the F眉hrer? Financing Construction for the 1936 Olympics',听Journal of Contemporary History听57, 1听(2022). pp. 24-44.
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Book Chapters
"What is National Socialist Ideology?", in听Ideologies in National Socialism. Volume 1: Ideology and听Individuals, eds. Darren O'Byrne, Julien von Reitzenstein (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Brill, 2024).
'Johannes Krohn. Ideology and Adaptation Across Regimes', in听Ideologies in National Socialism. Volume 1: Ideology and听Individuals, eds. Darren O'Byrne, Julien von Reitzenstein (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Brill, 2024).
'Herbert Backe and the Reich Ministry for Food and Agriculture in the "Third Reich". Actions and Ideologies',听in听Ideologies in National Socialism. Volume 1: Ideology and听Individuals, eds. Darren O'Byrne, Julien von Reitzenstein (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Brill, 2024)..
鈥楶erpetrators? Political Civil Servants in the Third Reich鈥�, in听Perpetrators: Dynamics, Motivations and Concepts for participating in mass Violence,听eds. Timothy Williams and Susanne Buckley-Zistel (London: Routledge, 2018).
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Other 鈥楾he Nazis Enter History鈥�, History Today vol. 71, no. 8 (August, 2021).
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Reviews (select) The Critic听(May 2024), 'Fighting lies with lies', review of Pomeranstev, Peter Frank,听'How to Win and Information War. The Propagandist who Outwitted Hitler' (Faber & Faber, 2024).
The Critic听(Nov. 2023), 'The Tangled Roots of the Third Reich', review of 听McDonough, Frank,听'The Weimar Years. Rise and Fall 1918-1933' (Apollo, 2023) and Fulbrook, Mary,听'Bystander Society. Conformity and Complicity in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust' (OUP, 2024).
History Today听vol. 72, no. 11,听Spicer, Charles, 'Coffee with Hitler. The British Amateurs Who Tried to Civilise the Nazis' (OneWorld, 2022).
HSozKult听(June 2020), Marx, Henry, 鈥欴ie Verwaltung des Ausnahmezustands. Wissensgenerierung und Arbeitskra虉ftelenkung im Nationalsozialismus鈥�. (Go虉ttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2019).
German Politics and Society听37, no. 1 (Spring 2019). Noah Strote,听Lions and Lambs: Conflict in Weimar and the Creation of Post-Nazi Germany听(Yale: Yale University Press, 2017).
Journal of Contemporary History听54, no. 1 (Jan. 2019). Guenter Lewy,听Perpetrators: The World of Holocaust Killers听(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).
Journal of Contemporary History听53, no. 2 (April 2018). Roshan Magub,听Edgar Julius Jung, Right Wing Enemy of the Nazis: A Political Biography听(Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 2016).
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