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Thomas Weber
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Historian & writer. Author of ‘Becoming Hitler’ & Prof of History &Int’l Affairs. Pls register for my Hitler Online course on.abdn.ac.uk/courses/hitler/
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    Thomas Weber
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    Sep 2, 2022
    "Once Putin’s song of seduction to create an empire irresistible to the peoples of the Russian orbit had failed, a brutal & bloody game of thrones,Russian-style, was the only option left to him." Here is my essay for Haaretz on two competing visions for the future, leading to war
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    Thomas Weber
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    Apr 10, 2020
    Not since WWII have Germans been as dangerous as they are today:
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    Thomas Weber
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    Sep 12, 2023
    1/2 Hermann Beck's 'Before the Holocaust' deserves the widest readership possible. It demonstrates that antisemitic violence in 1933 started much earlier than previously believed,that it was more widespread, & that many Conservatives & leading Protestants willingly colluded in it
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    Thomas Weber
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    Oct 1, 2022
    1/ Normally I resist Hitler comparisons w. modern leaders, as they tend to be facile, & I think that Putin is best understood through the lens of 18th&19th c. Russia. Yet his annexation speech follows the same structure & uses the same justifications as Hitler’s 1920s speeches…
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    Thomas Weber
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    Feb 14, 2023
    Amazing to see how Berlin transformed itself politically betw. 1990 & today from a city divided by the Cold War to a 'normal' city in which people vote for the Greens in the inner city & centre-right parties in the suburbs. For maps showing over time, see: interaktiv.tagesspiegel.de/lab/wahl-wiede…
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    Thomas Weber
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    Sep 12, 2023
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    2/2 I was delighted to provide an endorsement for the book, as the research presented in this book is stunning - global.oup.com/academic/produ…
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    Thomas Weber
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    Feb 14, 2022
    Where was James Heappey in the 1990s when NATO bombed targets in Serbia and when several other wars took place in the Western Balkans?
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    Thomas Weber
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    Aug 1, 2022
    1/ The fall of German historical literacy, attitudes towards Russian/Soviet aggression & the war in Ukraine: Here is a short 🧵on diminishing German engagement w. past Russian/Soviet aggression, which seems a specifically German phenomenon, if ngram data is to be trusted
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    Thomas Weber
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    Jan 15, 2023
    „Es ist ein gr.Vorteil, wenn Kinder mehrere Sprachen sprechen können &man soll sie..dafür loben…Wer…eine Schülerin bestraft, weil sie in der Pause türkisch spricht, hat im Schuldienst nichts verloren. Es ist nichts anderes als bürokratische Xenophobie“
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    Thomas Weber
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    Jun 25, 2016
    Thank you @NicolaSturgeon for your message to EU nationals who have made Scotland their home. Much appreciated!
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    Thomas Weber
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    Jul 9, 2023
    What unresolved mystery is lurking behind this public announcement? Why would a German district court try to investigate the death of a soldier during WWI? I am intrigued. 👇
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    Thomas Weber
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    Nov 21, 2023
    No, this is wrong. It would be correct to state that the Holocaust could only emerge and be implemented in the context of an imperialist war for Lebensraum, BUT Lebensraum was not the justification for the Shoah.
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    Samuel Miller McDonald
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    Nov 20, 2023
    "The fact that the Holocaust can’t be explained by theories of imperialism" is an absolutely insane thing for anyone, especially a German, to suggest. Lebensraum was the justification for basically everything the Nazis did, including the Holocaust
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    Thomas Weber
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    Jan 26, 2018
    Liebe @Tagesschau, wenn die Fehlertoleranz bei Ihrer Sonntagsfrage 1,4-3,1 % liegt und die SPD um 2 % abgesackt ist, wieso ist dann diese 2%-Veränderung eine Ihrer Hauptnachrichten und woraus leiten Sie ab, dass der Zuspruch für die SPD abgenommen habe? tagesschau.de/inland/deutsch…
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    Thomas Weber
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    Jun 14, 2022
    Very much looking forward to the publication of 'Als die Demokratie' ('When Democracy Died') in October with @herder_verlag