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| Personal Information | ||
| Name | Kramer, Alan Richard | |
| Main Department | History | |
| College Title | Professor of European History | |
| alkramer@tcd.ie | ||
| College Tel | +353 1 896 1411 | |
| Web | http://people.tcd.ie/alkramer | |
| Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies |
| Details | Date From | Date To |
| Fellow of the Royal Historical Society | ||
| Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | ||
| Fellow of Trinity College Dublin | ||
| German History Society (see: http://www.germanhistorysociety.org/) | ||
| Arbeitskreis Historische Friedensforschung | ||
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| Languages |
| Language | Skill Reading | Skill Writing | Skill Speaking |
| English | Fluent | Fluent | Fluent |
| French | Medium | Basic | Basic |
| German | Fluent | Fluent | Fluent |
| Italian | Fluent | Basic | Medium |
| Description of Research Interests |
| History of culture and mentalities, especially of Germany in the era of the First World War (1912-1933) and post-war Germany (1945 to 1950); atrocities in the First World War; comparative history of the laws of war; Belgium in the First World War; Italy in the First World War, the German military, 1870-1933. CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS: International history of concentration camps since 1896; Italian prisoners in the First World War; occupations in the First World War; online encyclopedia of the First World War. |
| Research Interests | |||
| Atrocities & War Crimes in the First World War | German History since 1870 | International History of Concentration Camps | International Law & 20th Century Warfare |
| Origins of Fascism in Italy | Prisoners of War in the First World War | War Crime Trials | War Culture & Mass Killing in the First World War |
| World War 1 |
| Research Projects | |
| Project title | International history of concentration camps |
| Summary | This project will be the first transnational comparative investigation of the history of concentration camps. The history of concentration camps in Nazi Germany is now well advanced, with several scholarly histories of the concentration camps from 1933 to 1945 published over the last three decades. The history of the concentration camps of Italian Fascism, long neglected by historians, has recently been discovered as an important theme. The story of the GULag, the camp system in the Soviet Union, has recently been revitalized by the opening of access to the archives. However, none of the overall histories or histories of individual camps adequately examines their origins and compares their changing function in history. This project therefore is designed to test various hypotheses on the origins of the camps by systematically scrutinizing the scholarly research on the camps from time of the first camps built by the Spanish in Cuba in 1896 to the construction of the Nazi concentration camps and the post-Second World War period, and by conducting original research on the camp system in the belligerent countries of the Great War, the international learning process from 1896, the treatment of civilian internees, the development of international law and the prosecution of violations of international humanitarian law in the camps. An examination of the decision-making process that established the extermination camps in 1941 and gave the term its contemporary meaning, is essential, even if the process of genocide is not the main focus of the project. Many historians justifiably see camps as the dark side of modern human civilization. For that reason it will be a central part of the project to explain the system of incarceration: security, exclusion, punishment, economic exploitation, and eradication. |
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| Date from | July 2008 |
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| Publications |
| Peer Reviewed |
| Alan Kramer, Dynamic of Destruction. Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007, 434 + xi- Url |
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| Alan Kramer, John Horne, German Atrocities, 1914. A History of Denial, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2001, 608 + xvpp | |
| Alan Kramer, The West German Economy 1945-1955, Oxford and New York, Berg Publishers, 1991 | |
| Alan Kramer, Die britische Demontagepolitik am Beispiel Hamburgs, 1945-1950 [British Politics of Dismantling: the case of Hamburg], Hamburg, Verein für Hamburgische Geschichte, 1991 | |
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