Felix A. Jiménez Botta

Never Forget Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Picture credit: NARA, College Park MD.

If you want to use this document for your classes, here it is: international-review.icrc.org/sites/defaul...

“The Police Authorities also mention that parents could not recognize their youngsters as all victims of the school looked completely alike. On [29 August] still carloads of dead bodies were being carried away to the cremation place and the city was filled with the stench of corpses.”

Tomorrow is the 80th anniversary of the US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima: From the ICRC’s confidential report on the effects of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima, pp. 6–7: “Those victims who were in the immediate vicinity of the centre in the streets were completely burnt and unrecognizable...”

Am kommenden Sonntag am Brandenburger Tor - eine Kundgebung gegen den Völkermord in Gaza - organisiert von Israelis für Frieden. Bitte einen leeren Topf mitbringen!

I would like to announce the account of the journal I edit:

@journalgenocide.bsky.social

Please follow it for updates on our articles.

Thank you.

This is a brazen case of police brutality in Germany for the @humanistischeunion.bsky.social and @hrw.org to investigate.

The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State. Available now as an Ebook! (print copies will start shipping in a month)

I keep hearing about the “total disregard for international law” (e.g. Volker Türk) which the situation in Gaza is supposed to showcase. But @dirkmoses.bsky.social shows that international law protects the right of states to wage war, even if they actively target civilians.

Psst, I have a new discount code to save 30% on my new book "A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa." Or maybe ask your library to order a copy if it's still a stretch. fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...

Setting the record straight about the GDR by @historyned.bsky.social

Great idea Tiffany, count me in!

I should add a special thanks to @brandonbloch.bsky.social and @dsharnak.bsky.social for their support and comments!

Official release day for my newie 'A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa'. And I have copies!! Would love to see this in a few libraries. You can order it here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Can't wait to hear your thoughts about it! See you at AHA/GSA next year?

Thanks so much Tiffany :)

Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973–1990 Cambridge Core - European Studies - Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973–1990

My book, Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973–1990, is out this September!
Thanks to Devin Pendas, Quinn Slobodian, Lora Wildenthal, @historyned.bsky.social, @laurenstokes.bsky.social, and @willgray.bsky.social for their support!
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The question remains whether we’ll be able to tell. Now we can, but in 5 years? Who knows.

A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally.

This is some bleak shit. Historians literally outsourcing the creative and research process to a thieving algorithm ripping off the IP of their own fellow-historians.

Says everything that they’re doing it from a Google office.

Hacks. They should be ashamed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...

The insane pressure of publish or perish – without regard to whether this overproduction is useful – makes this a very appealing shortcut. Most historians will take it or risk getting passed over for promotions, etc. It’s truly an existential moment we are facing as a profession.

Thanks a lot for this Will; it’s definitely an archive I need to use at some point soon.

How accessible is the archive? Do they also follow the 30 year rule?

Live-Analyse: Friedrich Merz scheitert im ersten Wahlgang Politisches Erdbeben im Bundestag: Friedrich Merz hat bei der Wahl zum Kanzler im ersten Wahlgang die notwendige Mehrheit verfehlt. Nun kann er einen neuen Anlauf nehmen. Die Sitzung in der Live-Analy...

Friedrich Merz fails to get his own CDU/CSU-SPD coalition to vote for him as Chancellor. 18 members of the government seem to have decided not to support him on the first ballot, which has failed. This has never happened in the history of the Federal Republic. www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

WOLA WEBINAR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2025 2:00 - 3:30PM EDT REGISTER ON ZOOM NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE THE WASHINGTON OFFICE ON LATIN AMERICA AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE PRESENT: LESSONS FROM LATIN AMERICA AS THE UNITED STATES RECKONS WITH ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE Speakers: MERCEDES DORETTI Executive Director Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team JUAN E. MÉNDEZ Professor of Human Rights Law in Residence Washington College of Law, American University MARCELA TURATI Investigative Journalist MORE INFORMATION & RSVP: www.wola.org/events Moderated by: KATE DOYLE National Security Archive

Join us tomorrow 2PM EDT for this online discussion.

For years, US advocates have accompanied Latin American human rights groups fighting enforced disappearance in their countries.

Now, it's the other way around.

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Instead, I demonstrate the contested politics of human rights in the Federal Republic of Germany between left-wing activists, exiles, government officials, and conservatives across twenty years, by using the mobilization for Chile, Argentina, Nicaragua, and El Salvador as case studies.

The proofs for my book “Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973–1990” are finally in. The book questions the scholarly portrayal of human rights as primarily a conservative and retrenched political and intellectual project.

A move way overdue. Thanks Ned!

The Multiple Meanings of Human Rights in Germany: an Introduction - Felix A. Jiménez Botta, 2025 This special section probes the contested history of human rights in Germany by tracing several historical case studies ranging from migrant advocacy for housin...

My introduction to the special issue “Human Rights in Postwar Germany,” all five articles by @willgray.bsky.social, Catriona Corke, Sarah Jacobson, Sarah Imani, Elise Pape and @historyned.bsky.social and Lora Wildenthal’s conclusion are now available online. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Now rolling out in early online access: a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary History edited by Felix Jiménez Botta on Human Rights in Postwar Germany. Lora Wildenthal and I wrote an epilogue for this wonderful collection that you can read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Shocking that Columbia University refuses to legally defend itself from Trumpian attacks and accedes in policing its students for expressing their opinion.