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University of Tübingen.
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Thomas Kuhne
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Thomas Kühne is a German historian, holder of the Strassler Family Chair in the Study of Holocaust History at Clark University, Worcester, Master of Arts. He specialises in the cultural history of 20th-century Germany, particularly with regard to Nazism and the Holocaust, and has written on topics including masculinity, notions of comradeship in war, and human beauty.
Career
He received a Guggenheim fellowship in 2010, and has twice been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In 1996 he published a collection of essays on masculinity in Germany, Männergeschichte-Geschlechtergeschichte (Men"s History—Gender History). He was chair of the German Historical Peace Research Association from 1998 to 2001.
He received his habilitation from the University of Bielefeld in 2003.
His thesis was published as Kameradschaft: Die Soldaten des nationalsozialistischen Krieges und das 20. The same year he was invited to the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and in 2004 he moved to Clark University.
His work explores mass violence and genocide and how atrocities are enabled by cultural and social constructs such as notions of masculinity and the ideal of comradeship in war. Belonging and Genocide: Hitler’s Community, 1918-1945 (2010) explored how the Nazis used community-based justice as the basis for their murderous society.
He received his Guggenheim fellowship to study modern discourses about human beauty, which developed into the book Globalizing Beauty: Consumerism and Body Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century.
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Jahrhundert (Comradeship: The soldiers of the national socialist war and the 20th century).
