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Miami Presents: From Prussia to Putin - Germany's Military, Then and Now

Germany and militarization: A complicated century. Over the past months, Germany has begun to contemplate its most substantial military buildup since the interwar period, prompted first by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and then by the US's more recent reassessment of its NATO engagement. How did a nation that spent generations rejecting militarism—after having spent so many earlier generations glorifying it— reverse course so dramatically again? What role did Germany's peace movement play in shaping—and resisting—these shifts? This webinar traces Germany's remarkable military journey over the past century. Erik Jensen is a historian specializing in 20th-century Germany, particularly the Weimar Republic, with research interests spanning gender, sexuality, and the body in modern European history. He is the author of Body by Weimar: Athletes, Gender, and German Modernity (Oxford University Press) and is currently completing a website that provides translated primary documents on the Weimar Republic to a non-German-speaking public, under the sponsorship of the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC: German History in Documents and Images. Jensen teaches courses on German, European, and world history, as well as a Miami-Plan course on 20th-century genocides.