Reactions in Print Media

Chair: Wendy Lower (Claremont McKenna College and Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

• Norman Domeier (University of Stuttgart, History)
  “The ‘Reichskristallnacht’ and the American Journalists in Nazi Germany”

• Paul Moore (University of Leicester, UK, Modern European History)
  “‘La Nuit de Cristal’: The November Pogrom as a Transnational Media Moment”

Paul Moore is a lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Leicester and deputy director of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He received his Ph.D. from Birkbeck College, University of London in 2010, in which he investigated German popular opinion on Nazi concentration camps from 1933 to 1939. He has served as a Teaching Fellow in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His publications include ‘“The Truth about the Concentration Camps”: Werner Schäfer’s Anti-Brown Book and the Transnational Debate on Early Nazi Terror’ (2016), ‘“One Country Alone Says Nothing”: French Press Reactions to “La Nuit de Cristal” (2014), and The View from Outside: The Nazi  Concentration Camps and the German Public, 1933-1945 (Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2018).

Norman Domeier is Assistant Professor of Modern European History at the University of Stuttgart (Germany). He studied History, Political Science and Media and Communication in Göttingen, Cambridge and at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. The English edition of his Ph.D thesis, “The Eulenburg Affair. A Cultural History of Politics in the German Empire,” was published by Boydell & Brewer in 2015. His second book project—the focus of his current work—looks at the relationship between foreign journalists and the Third Reich.