Lowell W. Culver has studied European history and followed political developments in Germany for over half a century. He was a Fulbright exchange scholar at the University of Hamburg and, later, an exchange professor at the University of Oldenburg. Other than this study of German totalitarianism, he has authored an account of state (Land) and national elections held in Germany between 1946 and 2011 under the title The Road to Democracy in Germany (University Press of America, 2012). He and his wife share time between the United States and Germany. He holds a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Southern California.
