Nicholas Stargardt
Australian historian (1962-)
Edward Nicholas Raymond Stargardt (born 1962) is an Australian historian. He is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow in History at Magdalen College.
Stargardt is the son of a German-Jewish father and Australian mother. He was born in Melbourne, Australia, and lived in Australia, Japan, England and Germany. He was educated at Hills Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge and earned his BA and PhD at King's College, Cambridge, staying on for a research fellowship there. He held a lectureship at Royal Holloway, University of London before moving to Magdalen College in 1999. In 2011 the university awarded him the Title of Distinction of Professor of Modern European History. He is currently vice president of Magdalen College.
He is the author of The German Idea of Militarism: Radical and Socialist Critics (1994), an intellectual and political history of anti-militarist movements in Germany before the First World War, and of Witnesses of War: Children’s Lives under the Nazis (2005), which offered the first social history of Nazi Germany in the Second World War through the eyes of children. His 2015 book, The German War, explores the attitudes of German citizens during the Second World War.
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