Professor Neil Gregor

History
School of Humanities
University of Southampton
Southampton
S017 1BJ

Position: Professor. On leave Semester 2.

Research interests

Daimler Benz in the Third Reich My research interests range widely across twentieth century German history, and have encompassed, at various points, aspects of business history, social history, cultural history and literary studies, along with historiography. At times I have worked firmly within the traditional confines of our own disciplinary approaches; at other times I have pursued interdisciplinary agendas drawing on (for example) anthropology, cultural studies and museum studies. The consistent theme which runs through my work, however, is the exploration of the impact and legacies of war on modern German society.
My first book, Daimler-Benz in the Third Reich, which was published by Yale University Press in 1998, examined the ways in which a major German corporation adapted to the demands of the Third Reich and became complicit in its racial crimes as a result; it was shortlisted for the Longman/History Today Book Prize and was a winner of the Fraenkel Prize for Contemporary History in 1997. My second major monograph, Haunted City: Nuremberg and the Nazi Past was published in 2008, also by Yale University Press, and marks an attempt to explore the unstable dynamics of post-1945 memory cultures against the background of the social history of the post-war years; like my first book, it shared the Fraenkel Prize for Contemporary History for that year.
Whilst working on my monograph on the post-war years I have maintained an active interest in the study of the Third Reich, editing a collection on the historiography of Nazism, publishing a short study of Hitler’s writings, and, most recently, editing a collection of essays by leading scholars in the field into a Festschrift for my former doctoral supervisor Jeremy Noakes; I have also co-edited, with my colleagues Mark Roseman (Indiana) and Nils Roemer (Texas) a volume of essays on the comparative study of minorities in German history. At the moment I am working on a project on cultures of music appreciation in C20th Germany.

Together with my colleague Maiken Umbach (University of Manchester) I am co-editor of "German History". I also sit on the editorial board of the Royal Historical Society's "Studies in History" series.

Areas where I can offer Postgraduate Supervision:

I am happy to supervise Postgraduate Students on all aspects of twentieth century German history, and welcome preliminary enquiries from interested students.

Contact

Room: 2057
Tel: +44 (0)2380 594 866
Email: ng1@soton.ac.uk

Publications

Haunted City: Nuremberg and the Nazi Past (New Haven, 2008)
(co-ed), German History from the Margins (Indiana, 2006)
‘Politics, Culture, Political Culture: Recent Work on the Third Reich and its Aftermath’ in: The Journal of Modern History 78 (2006)
How to read Hitler (Granta, 2005)
(ed.) Nazism, War and Genocide (Exeter, 2005)
‘”The Illusion of Remembrance”: The Karl Diehl Affair and the Memory of National Socialism in Nuremberg, 1945 1999’ in: The Journal of Modern History 75 (2003).
‘"Is he still alive, or long since dead?" Loss, absence and remembrance in Nuremberg, 1945-1956' , German History 21:2 (2003).
Nazism. A Reader. Editor (Oxford, 2000)
'A Schicksalsgemeinschaft? Allied bombing, civilian morale, and social dissolution in Nuremberg, 1942-1945', Historical Journal, 43/4 (2000)
Daimler-Benz in the Third Reich (New Haven, 1998)

Teaching responsibilities for Professor Neil Gregor
Module title	Module code	Discipline	Role
Culture, Society & Politics in Germany, c.1890-1955	HIST2058	History	Course leader
German Nationalisms from The Enlightenment to The Present	HIST6030	History	Course leader
Music and History	HIST3119	History	Course leader
The Third Reich 1	HIST3054	History	Course leader
The Third Reich 2	HIST3055	History	Course leader
The Third Reich 2A - CH Dissertation Route	HIST3056	History	Course leader

Publications from e–Prints Soton

	Gregor, Neil (2008) Nuremberg: city with a past. History Today, 58, (12), 31-33.
	Gregor, Neil (2008) Haunted city: Nuremberg and the Nazi past, London, UK, Yale University Press, 336pp.
	Gregor, N. (2008) Hitler. In, Casey, Steven and Wright, Jonathan (eds.) Mental Maps in the Era of Two World Wars. Basingstoke, UK, Palgrave Macmillan, 177-202.
	Gregor, Neil, Roemer, Nils and Roseman, Mark (eds.) (2006) German history from the margins , Bloomington, US, Indiana University Press, 304pp.
	Gregor, Neil (2006) Politics, culture, political culture: recent work on the Third Reich and its aftermath. Journal of Modern History, 78, (3), 643-683.
	Gregor, Neil (ed.) (2005) Nazism, War and Genocide, Exeter, UK, University of Exeter Press, 226pp.
	Gregor, Neil (2005) How to Read Hitler, London, UK; New York, US, Granta; Norton, 128pp. (How to read (London, England))
	Gregor, Neil (2005) Nazism – A Political Religion? Rethinking the Voluntarist Turn. In, Gregor, Neil (ed.) Nazism, War and Genocide. Essays in Honour of Jeremy Noakes. Exeter: UK, University of Exeter Press, 1-21.
	Gregor, N. (2003) 'Is he still alive, or long since dead?' Loss, absence and remembrance in Nuremberg, 1945–1956. German History, 21, (2), 183-203. (doi:10.1191/0266355403gh280oa)
	Gregor, Neil (2003) "The Illusion of Remembrance": The Karl Diehl Affair and the Memory of National Socialism in Nuremberg, 1945-1999. Journal of Modern History, 75, (3), 590-633. (doi: 10.1086/380239)