Jeffrey C. Herf (born April 24, 1947) is an American historian of modern Europe, particularly modern Germany. He is Distinguished University Professor...
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Reactionary modernism is a term first coined by Jeffrey Herf in the 1980s to describe the mixture of "great enthusiasm for modern technology with a rejection...
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to historian Jeffrey Herf, the Nazis used the idea of the original big lie to turn sentiment against Jews and justify the Holocaust. Herf maintains that...
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(propaganda department of the Nazi Party) from 1937 to 1943. Historian Jeffrey Herf describes Parole der Woche as "the most ubiquitous and intrusive aspect...
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and the Holocaust is a 2006 book by University of Maryland professor Jeffrey Herf, in which the author postulates that the Nazi government maintained its...
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Kershaw 2008, p. 109. Herf 2006, p. 170. Herf 2006, p. 192. Herf 2006, pp. 193–195. Herf 2006, p. 210. Herf 2006, p. 211. Herf 2006, p. 212. Kershaw 2008...
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other scholars in Jewish studies. Holocaust historians Norman Goda and Jeffrey Herf say that Bartov and several other academics are exploiting their credentials...
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prominent individuals from Europe and North America. According to historian Jeffrey Herf, it was the Nazis' conspiratorial beliefs about Jews, rather than older...
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You). He was fluent in five languages, including Dutch and Japanese. Jeffrey Herf reports that in December 1942 Leers published an article in Die Judenfrage...
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restaurants, doctor's offices, offices, schools or companies. Historian Jeffrey Herf estimates that 32.5 million copies were printed in total from September...
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"disappearance" of the Jews one way or another. According to American historian Jeffrey Herf, Ley issued some of the most overt propaganda accusing Jews of plotting...
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along, even though Germany started the war by invading Poland. Historian Jeffrey Herf writes that "According to Hitler's paranoid logic, the Jews had launched...
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Nazi Propaganda," Quarterly Journal of Speech, 91 (2005), pp. 37–62 Jeffrey Herf, The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust...
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without republicans. According to professor of modern European history Jeffrey Herf of the University of Maryland, College Park, this is because nobody in...
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euphemisms were "their normal mode of communicating about murder". However, Jeffrey Herf has argued that the role of euphemisms in Nazi propaganda has been exaggerated...
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We were the first to think of translating Mein Kampf." According to Jeffrey Herf, "To be sure, the translations of Hitler's Mein Kampf and The Protocols...
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the line so often as to make the distinction meaningless. Professor Jeffrey Herf of the University of Maryland, College Park wrote: "One distinctive feature...
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Atlantic Council. Retrieved 2021-12-02. Søe, Christian (April 1995). "Jeffrey Herf. War by Other Means: Soviet Power, West German Resistance, and the Battle...
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Persecution. University of Wisconsin Press. 2006. p. 48. ISBN 978-0299217341 Jeffrey Herf, Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism in Historical Perspective: Convergence...
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Der Spiegel Numer: 17/18/2007 Wprost "Seksualne Niewolnice III Rzeszy" Jeffrey Herf, The Jewish Enemy, p.58 ISBN 978-0-674-02738-1 Robert Gellately, Backing...
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Meinhof wrote an essay defending the Munich massacre, which historian Jeffrey Herf describes as "one of the most important documents in the history of antisemitism...
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disagree on the broader impact of the elements of antisemitism, with Jeffrey Herf arguing that it was influential enough to provide seeds for later Islamist...
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final stages of the war between January and May 1945 (1.2 million). Jeffrey Herf wrote that: Whereas German deaths between 1941 and 1943 on the western...
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communities, and led by a new aristocracy of merit and action. Historian Jeffrey Herf used the term "reactionary modernism" to describe that "great enthusiasm...
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assertion, with University of Maryland historian and Barack Obama critic Jeffrey Herf saying, "There is not the slightest, tiny sliver in which this could...
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pursued an anti-Zionist policy; Jeffrey Herf argues that East Germany was waging an undeclared war on Israel. According to Herf, "the Middle East was one of...
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responses criticizing the essay including from Jeffrey Herf, Andrei Markovits, Daniel Pipes, and Michael Szanto. Herf and Markovits found Mearsheimer and Walt's...
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Germany as a "fascist state" alongside the United States and West Germany. Jeffrey Herf argues that East Germany was waging an undeclared war on Israel and that...
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Wayback Machine Terrosim in Germany. The RAF/Baader Meinhof Group [sic]. Jeffrey Herf, History.UMD.edu Archived 16 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine, "An...
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subtitle, of how Nazism went "from persecution to genocide". According to Jeffrey Herf Confino's book "displays repeated gaps between assertion and evidence...
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