Benjamin Hett

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Research Interests

  • Modern Europe and German, politics, espionage, military

Education

  • Ph.D., Harvard University 2001

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Affiliated Campus(es)

  • Hunter College

Selected Publications

  • The Nazi Menace: Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War (Henry Holt, 2020)

  • Featured on the Graduate Center home page - "The Adults in the Room Couldn’t Stop Him: Hitler and the March to World War II"

  • The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic (Henry Holt, 2018)

  • “’This Story Is about Something Fundamental’: Nazi Criminals, History, Memory and the Reichstag Fire,” Central European History 48(2) June 2015: 199-224.

  • Burning the Reichstag: An Investigation Into The Third Reich’s Enduring (Oxford University Press, 2014)

  • Crossing Hitler: The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).

  • Death in the Tiergarten: Murder and Criminal Justice in the Kaiser's Berlin, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004)

  • "The 'Captain of Koepenick' and the Transformation of German Criminal Justice, 1891-1914", Central European History 36 (1), 2003.

Benjamin Hett - Professor -  profile photo

Contact

Affiliated Campus(es)

  • Hunter College

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