Hi Hitler!

Gavriel D. Rosenfeld is Professor of History at Fairfield University, Connecticut. His area of specialization is the history and memory of the Nazi era. He is the author of several books, including Building after Auschwitz: Jewish Architecture and the Memory of the Holocaust (2011), which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in the category of visual arts; The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism (Cambridge, 2005); Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments and the Legacy of the Third Reich (2000), and the co-edited work, Beyond Berlin: Twelve German Cities Confront the Nazi Past (2008). He is also the editor of the forthcoming volume of Jewish alternate histories, 'If Only We Had Died in Egypt!' What Ifs of Jewish History from Abraham to Zionism, also to be published by Cambridge University Press. Rosenfeld is a frequent contributor to the Forward newspaper and edits the blog, The Counterfactual History Review.

• Introduction; 1. A 'good war' no more: the new World War II revisionism; 2. From history to memory and back again: debating the Holocaust's uniqueness; 3. Probing the limits of speculation: counterfactualism and the Holocaust; 4. Nazis that never were: new alternate histories of the Third Reich; 5. Humanizing Hitler: the Führer in contemporary film; 6. Between tragedy and farce: Nazism on the Internet; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

'Endowed with erudition, deep scholarship, fluent style and a sense of humor, Hi Hitler is a major contribution to our understanding of current memories of the Third Reich and their consequences.' Alon Confino, author of A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide