Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Everything is bogged down in the useless question of genocide. Who cares if what Israel did/is doing in Gaza is genocide? What should matter is whether it was right or wrong. If you believe everything hangs on the genocide accusation, you do not have any grasp on right or wrong. 000
Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Every time I open this site I am embarrassed for academics 😂 010
Reposted by Harry Legg Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 04/06/2026PSA: If you're mid-career, & you're not invited to speak as much as you'd like (😐) you're not on journal or press boards, or co-authoring/editing volumes, you might want to look to yourself. If ppl trust & like you, you'll be asked to do more than you could possibly have time for. Try being nicer. 141
Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Just added all my thesis chapters into one document. Bearing in mind one of them doesn't even have footnotes included and that this doesn't include the intro or conclusion. I'm done for, even if the word limit is 120K (could be worse). 030
Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Trump says he has no intention to send troops into Iran, which either means he's about to invade Iran or it means absolutely nothing and is meant to calm the markets. 151
Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 06/03/2026A question for academics who have served on hiring committees for postdoctoral positions (not permanent jobs, not teaching-only jobs): Is not having actually received the PhD/not having passed the Viva something which puts someone's application at the bottom of the pile? 100
Reposted by Harry LeggWaitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 27/02/2026I appreciate this account proving my point for me. There are lots of bad and criminal things out there, but they aren’t all genocide. And that’s ok! They don’t have to be. But genocide has an actual definition with actual legal elements to it. 68912
Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 24/02/2026From the article: “Those restorers knew what they were doing,” Dr. Blewett said. “They knew it was about accumulating information to kill people.” This is complete nonsense as a general characterization. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/w...nytimes.comHow Bookbinders Used Old Records to Help the Nazis Find Their Victims 100
Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 24/02/2026If anyone wants to watch Kobi Kabalek and I talk about his excellent book (and my mini-presentation on why 50,000 rescuers during the Holocaust is actually rather a lot when viewed in the right statistical context), here is the link: youtu.be/BX8GbKfElYM?...youtu.beRescue and Remembrance: Imagining the German Collective After NazismYouTube video by Ghetto Fighters' House מוזיאון בית לוחמי הגטאות 020
Reposted by Harry LeggHarry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 06/02/2026On Feb 22 I'll be talking with Kobi Kabalek about his stimulating and even potentially controversial new book. The event is online and anyone can attend. My comments will be informed by debates on German popular opinion and the connection between Holocaust memory and historiographical trends. 022
Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 06/02/2026On Feb 22 I'll be talking with Kobi Kabalek about his stimulating and even potentially controversial new book. The event is online and anyone can attend. My comments will be informed by debates on German popular opinion and the connection between Holocaust memory and historiographical trends. 022
Reposted by Harry LeggJay Geller @jaygeller.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Liebe deutsche Autoren, im Namen der Wissenschaft bitte ich Sie: Führen Sie in Ihren Büchern nicht nur Personenregister, sondern auch Sachregister. 2172
Reposted by Harry LeggWaitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 25/01/2026Really looking forward to this! Feel free to come out! It's free and online! 1145
Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Trump isn't following the Hitler script insofar as the script is very common amongst all dictators, and not just fascists. Stalin very famously involed the memory of being surrounded by Western powers during the earlier civil war to justify terror tactics in the 1930s (and other moments too). 030
Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 27/12/2025And now there is some coverage of my work in a Spanish Jewish outlet, which appears to have translated the Jerusalem Post piece: itongadol.com/cultura/como...itongadol.comCómo las categorías nazis de "medio judío" y "un cuarto de judío" aún determinan quién es judío - Itón GadolCómo las categorías nazis de "medio judío" y "un cuarto de judío" aún determinan quién es judío 010
Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 22/12/2025Can anyone recommend Viennese archives which have a collection of Jewish (and "Jewish") ego-documents? I've got the VWI, IKG, DOEW, anything else? 758
Reposted by Harry LeggWaitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 22/12/2025I asked our university's official AI assistant to draw a map of Poland in 1941. Great stuff. Glad we are steering our students toward this helpful resource. 3032189
Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Not me going to Newcastle for a conference tomorrow the day after they lose to Sunderland 💀 😭 010
Reposted by Harry Legg Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 11/12/2025When people you know make the news. In a good way. @harrylegg.bsky.social www.jpost.com/history/arti...jpost.comNazi rules on half-Jews and quarter-Jews still define Jews | The Jerusalem PostUnder Nazi law, these people were grouped under the term "Mischlinge" and bureaucratically labelled as “half-Jews” or “quarter-Jews,” depending on how many grandparents were recorded as Jewish. 032
Reposted by Harry LeggHarry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Very surprised but grateful that the Jerusalem Post of all newspapers has written a favourable piece on my recent Journal of Genocide Research article. It seems they really understood the spirit behind it, even if they slightly misread the specifics: www.jpost.com/history/arti...jpost.comNazi rules on half-Jews and quarter-Jews still define Jews | The Jerusalem PostUnder Nazi law, these people were grouped under the term "Mischlinge" and bureaucratically labelled as “half-Jews” or “quarter-Jews,” depending on how many grandparents were recorded as Jewish. 041
Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Very surprised but grateful that the Jerusalem Post of all newspapers has written a favourable piece on my recent Journal of Genocide Research article. It seems they really understood the spirit behind it, even if they slightly misread the specifics: www.jpost.com/history/arti...jpost.comNazi rules on half-Jews and quarter-Jews still define Jews | The Jerusalem PostUnder Nazi law, these people were grouped under the term "Mischlinge" and bureaucratically labelled as “half-Jews” or “quarter-Jews,” depending on how many grandparents were recorded as Jewish. 041
Reposted by Harry LeggJim Clifford @jimclifford.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Historians on hiring, tenure, and promotion committees should be cautious about relying on Google Scholar, and we need to fight against others using it to assess us. I just noticed three citations to my articles in an American Historical Review article by Jo Guldi, and none show up in my profile. 45314
Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Did some teaching and then wrote some blogs about teaching and am now "Associate Fellow" of something or rather. Nice. 1100
Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Rest in peace Daniel Naroditsky. Heartbroken that he has died :( sad beyond words. 080
Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 19/10/2025This tweet is one of many examples of why it's necessary to portray accurately the way the Nazi definition of "Jew" differed greatly from Jews' definition of Jew. People throw their hands up in horror at the suggestion that we should use scare quotes around every use of the Nazi definition 1/2 231
Reposted by Harry LeggClaims Conference @claims-conference.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Meet the 18th cohort of the Claims Conference's #SaulKagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies: PhD candidates Lisa Storer, @alexorengog.bsky.social, Eliyau Klein, @harrylegg.bsky.social, Jovana Cveticanin, Alexandra Kramen, and postdocs Margaux Dumas & Borbala Klacsmann. fellowships.claimscon.org 051
Reposted by Harry LeggContemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 02/10/2025🦋 With Bluesky's membership growing, here's a reminder that we've put together not one but TWO starter packs of people, journals and institutions working and publishing in our field. Follow one contemporary European historian, get 149 free! go.bsky.app/SU3jCJb 12420
Reposted by Harry LeggContemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Harry Legg's article, 'I Hid for Days in the Basement' was chosen by @npapadogian.bsky.social for its use of autobiographical narrations, "[highlighting] the complexities of this hitherto understudied moment of discovery in the years before the Holocaust". [6/7] tinyurl.com/4k86mvh2tinyurl.com‘I Hid for Days in the Basement’: Moments of ‘Jewish’ Discovery in Pre-Holocaust Germany and Austria | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core‘I Hid for Days in the Basement’: Moments of ‘Jewish’ Discovery in Pre-Holocaust Germany and Austria - Volume 34 Issue 2 152
Reposted by Harry LeggJournal of Genocide Research @journalgenocide.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Starting today, the journal will publish on Substack. This new platform allows our authors to share short articles inspired by their work in the journal. Our debut post features Dr Anne Irfan’s piece. open.substack.com/pub/journalg...open.substack.comIsrael’s Displacement/Immobility Nexus in PalestineThis post is authored by Dr. Anne Irfan, Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender, and Postcolonial Studies at UCL and the author of 'A Short History of the Gaza Strip'. 098
Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Sign this: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...petition.parliament.ukPetition: Do not introduce Digital ID cardsWe demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at. 000
Reposted by Harry LeggMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements. 2343387136036
Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Adam Tooze is simply a legendary writer and thinker. Finally reading his "Wages of Destruction" for the first time (instead of skimming it and reading reviews) and I've never found economic history so compelling. What a phenomenal mind he has. 120
Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 28/08/2025PhD update: just ran out of storage on my 400GB laptop. I have 3,900+ PDFs comprising some 30GBs 180
Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Just after Peter Longerich publishes his book debunking the Zustimmungsdiktatur, Götz Aly fires back with exactly the opposite conclusions: 130
Reposted by Harry LeggRachel Pistol @drpistol.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Sometimes when you stare into the void, the void stares back... #cats 0111
Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Only just saw that Wulf Kansteiner has died aged 60. Very sad to learn of this. He was very kind to me when I asked him for feedback on a postdoc proposal of mine, 6-12 months ago. 010
Reposted by Harry LeggJohannes Hürter @huerterjohannes.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Meine Edition (2016) der Papiere des Generals Gotthard Heinrici ist jetzt auf ZeitgeschichteOpen, dem Repositorium des @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social, frei zugänglich. Gut so, denn dieses Buch, das mir wichtig ist, war wegen des WBG-Konkurses nicht mehr lieferbar. open.ifz-muenchen.de/entities/pub...open.ifz-muenchen.deNotizen aus dem VernichtungskriegKaum ein anderer Beteiligter hat den Krieg NS-Deutschlands gegen die Sowjetunion so schonungslos beschrieben wie Gotthard Heinrici. Die Briefe und Tagebücher dieses hochrangigen Generals bieten tiefe ... 1168
Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 06/08/2025In less than a month, my new article has got 1000+ views, mainly because I spammed it in numerous newsletters. Here it is, free to read: www.tandfonline.com/doi/metrics/... I also want to highlight Jürgen Matthäus's piece again, because the link was initially broken: doi.org/10.1080/1462...tandfonline.com 010
Reposted by Harry LeggYair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Dec 23: Israel resumes fighting after Hamas releases 85 hostages March 25: Israel breaks the ceasefire after Hamas releases 30 live hostages. Hasbara brain for 21 months now: all Hamas needs to do is to return the hostages and the war would be over 28028
Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Sopade reports in the wake of the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938: "The campaign to exterminate [Vernichtungsfeldzug] German Jews has, according to all indications, entered its final stage" 020
Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 01/08/2025From a 1938 Sopade report, in which the writer finally realizes that the Nazis attack "the Jews" not because it is convenient to have an enemy but because they fundamentally hate them above all else: 1/4 111
Reposted by Harry LeggAlan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 29/07/20257. Most Germans were unenthusiastic about war. 3362
Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Oh look, all the historians and "history buffs" are piling on a guy for staying something which is undeniable and well within the mainstream of historical opinion. If you want reading suggestions about the extent to which the population (inc. Army) supported Nazi ideology, I can provide them 020
Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Have a read: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @mrothberg.bsky.social.theguardian.comAs scholars of genocide, we demand an end to Israel’s atrocities | Open letterWithin weeks, 400 colleagues joined our organization. We say: it is not too late to save lives. End the genocide now 033