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Adam A. Blackler

@adamblackler.bsky.social

Historian of Germany, particularly of colonialism, genocide studies, and the Weimar Republic. Associate Professor and proud cat dad. https://www.uwyo.edu/history/people/faculty/blackler.html

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Call for Applications: β€œ8th West Coast Germanists’ Workshop: German History at the Crossroads? New Narratives, Perspectives and Approaches,” hosted at @colorado.edu and taking place March 2026. Further info here: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

19.09.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Off to @thegsa.bsky.social!

24.09.2025 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How to Make Strudel Like Magda Goebbels β€œMy grandfather used to say β€˜and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel’ and I never knew what it meant until after he died my grandmother explained s...

"As you work, remind us that you cook for your family. Family is so important. Real, good families, just like yours.

Smile."

23.09.2025 01:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œThat doesn’t look like writing to me.”

13.09.2025 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Perfect! 🀩

12.09.2025 03:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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You’re drunk, Strudel!

12.09.2025 01:23 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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"How hysterical all the words and deeds of the government are! The endless threatening of the death sentence, the arrest of hostages, the search for subversive couriers and pamphlets throughout Germany."
Victor Klemperer, Diary, 28 July 1933

08.09.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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A Farewell to the Thucydides Trap: The β€˜Anglo-German Antagonism’ as History and International Relations Paradigm* Abstract. Prefacing a series of articles in the Special Issue examining the imperial and colonial dimensions of Anglo-German relations prior to and during

My new article on Anglo-German relations prior to 1914 (the introduction to a special issue) has just come out online for the journal 'German History'. academic.oup.com/gh/advance-a...

01.07.2025 04:08 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Waffles and Strudel for breakfast

30.08.2025 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Nazikeule im Dritten Reich | Browser Ballett
YouTube video by Browser Ballett Nazikeule im Dritten Reich | Browser Ballett

This video never stops being relevant.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvgZ...

29.08.2025 01:55 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This Sunday, Historians At The Movies talks about Nazi Germany, resistance, and swing. Join us on Prime Video this Sunday, August 31 at 8pm eastern for SWING KIDS.

Keep #HATM dancing by sharing and we’ll see you soon!

25.08.2025 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 107    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 20

Talking about them in class this year!

26.08.2025 03:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Enjoying my coffee.

23.08.2025 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A white memorial with the words β€œWake up! We need to free ourselves from Hitlerism!” In German

A white memorial with the words β€œWake up! We need to free ourselves from Hitlerism!” In German

My favourite anti-fascist memorial in Berlin, a replica of one of the resistance postcards which Otto and Elise Hampel distributed around Berlin between 1940 and 1942.

19.08.2025 08:23 β€” πŸ‘ 142    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Perhaps the best way to avoid Bauarbeiten und VerzΓΆgerungen πŸ˜‚

20.08.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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Chapter 6: β€žPopularizing the Nation Colonial Literature and the Imperial Imaginationβ€œ by @adamblackler.bsky.social

15.08.2025 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you, Matt. I agree with you about what his works convey. They are so, so powerful.

14.08.2025 23:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Several folks kindly expressed interest last week in my seminar, "Opposing Fascism." Now that it's finished, I'm happy to share the readings/schedule.

14.08.2025 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Boys’ night πŸ™‚

08.08.2025 22:54 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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HIST 4990: "Opposing Fascism" #fcknzs

08.08.2025 02:12 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I miss Berlin terribly. But at least it’s well represented in my updated office πŸ™‚

06.08.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Goodbye, Berlin. Until next time!

30.07.2025 08:35 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pride in Berlin!

27.07.2025 08:03 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Last day @stabiberlin.bsky.social 😒

25.07.2025 06:59 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I am going to miss you, Berlin.

23.07.2025 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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My life is cats.

22.07.2025 09:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Back to it @stabiberlin.bsky.social

21.07.2025 09:00 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My mother visited me in Berlin for this first time this week. She was very struck by the exhibition @wannseekonferenz.bsky.social.

17.07.2025 11:39 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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