• 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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