Anna Haag and her Secret Diary of the Second World War

Edward Timms, Research Professor in History at the University of Sussex, is a cultural historian with a special interest in twentieth-century German and Austrian literature and politics, including radical critiques of the militarism that culminated in the two World Wars. He has co-authored and co-edited numerous publications, including Romantic Communist: The Life and Work of Nazim Hikmet (with Saime Göksu), Writing after Hitler: The Work of Jakov Lind (with Silke Hassler and Andrea Hammel) and Pictorial Narrative in the Nazi Period (with Deborah Schultz). Best known for his two-volume study Karl Kraus – Apocalyptic Satirist, he has also published the first complete translation of Kraus’s anti-war drama The Last Days of Mankind (with Fred Bridgham). Further details can be found in his memoirs, Taking up the Torch: English Institutions, German Dialectics and Multicultural Commitments.

• Contents: Paradigms of Creativity and Marriage with an Educational Mission – Fighting for the Fatherland: Sacrifice, Resilience and Loyalty Betrayed – Republican Values, Female Agency and the International Peace Campaign – Responses to Hitler’s Seizure of Power: A Purely Masculine Affair? – The People’s War: Diarists, Demagogues, Spin-Doctors, Popular Broadcasters and Secret Listeners – False Ideals: Master Race, Religious Mission, Faith in the Führer, Tainted Healthcare and Perverted Justice – Avalanche: Super-Criminals, Yellow Stars, Deportations, Plunder, Slaughter – and the Spectre of Poison Gas – Echoes of Stalingrad and Un-German Attitudes: Women’s Responses to Total War – Cities Razed to the Ground and Calls for Resistance: Can You Kill Hitler with a Cooking Spoon? – Matrix of Democracy: The Diarist’s Political Vision.