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Harry Legg

@harrylegg.bsky.social
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PhD @ Uni of Edinburgh, Scotland | Researching non-Jews classified as "Jewish" in Nazi Germany & Austria. Holocaust history. www.ed.ac.uk/profile/harry-legg

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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Everything 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.
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Every time I open this site I am embarrassed for academics 😂
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Thanks Vicki, hope you're well.
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Was looking sketchy for a moment lol. Thanks, hope you're well.
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Some news:
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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
PSA: 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.
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Just 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).
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I appreciate this nuanced point. There would have been less to criticise had Poles generally been too afraid to mount any resistance at all.
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
It isn't too long. Extensive footnotes, detailed prose, and breadth of focus should be championed. These pamphlet books dominating academia are pitiful
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I would stress quite heavily that many were indirectly forcibly downsized several times before first being put in a Judenhaus.
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Hmm. Yeah, mass strikes as you say would indeed spread the risk so wide as to be negligible, I hope
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Und was sagst du?
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Trump 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.
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
A 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?
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 27/02/2026
I 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.
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
While society is more morally excited than ever, it has lost its ability to present an argument as to why things are immoral without pointing to big bad words and crimes. They won't grasp what you're saying Waitman; genocide is now synonymous with bad.
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Well, I can tell you for certain that most bookbinders/restorers -- during the majority of the period of activity -- did not know what they were doing was condemning people to death. And some did see themselves as helping people escape persecution, too.
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Hi, I am concerned that there are several really important errors in this article. Dr Schmidt herself makes perfectly valid points, but the article is a historical travesty.
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
From 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.com
How Bookbinders Used Old Records to Help the Nazis Find Their Victims
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
If 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.be
Rescue and Remembrance: Imagining the German Collective After Nazism
YouTube video by Ghetto Fighters' House מוזיאון בית לוחמי הגטאות
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
And maybe the type of work historians do nowadays?
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Railway workers' barracks, apparently: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SA-Gef%...
de.wikipedia.org
SA-Gefängnis Papestraße – Wikipedia
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
When I was in Berlin for a fellowship, I stumbled across this very early SA camp. It's so random. I can't remember what it originally was, but it's almost a single building. I swear I didn't edit these photos. The sky was just appropriately ominous...
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Also, his last name, if said in the correct way, is a blasphemous denunciation of a woman!
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Sorry to hear this.
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
As someone in a similar boat but not for German law reasons (and with much less evidence of ppl liking my work), may I offer my genuine sympathy.
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Flattery !
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
On 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.
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
On 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.
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
That's actually a valid and interesting point
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Of course, but what is the significance of the length?
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
First they came for the Lit Review
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I imagine the disbelief was not historical but humane
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I mean, that's amazing, wow, congratulations. The description by the panel is effusive.
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Up the toon
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
OH I misread, I thought you were complimenting Chelsea. Continue as you were.
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Ew
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
*Finlay.
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Fwiw, I'm firmly against Israel's actions in Gaza but agree that the slogan is misguided -- I accept that many mean it in the more understandable sense Joseph Findlay describes, though.
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Meiner Meinung nach ist es nicht wahrscheinlich dass normale Menschen diese Bücher lesen werden. :/
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Stimmt.
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Jay Geller @jaygeller.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Liebe deutsche Autoren, im Namen der Wissenschaft bitte ich Sie: Führen Sie in Ihren Büchern nicht nur Personenregister, sondern auch Sachregister.
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Yes!!
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Ja aber die sind nicht einfach verfügbar/zugänglich, oder?
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Of course this happens when I'm away from Edinburgh .... Good luck!
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 25/01/2026
Really looking forward to this! Feel free to come out! It's free and online!
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I'm actually dying laughing. He's insane
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
80%+ think he's a maniac
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Harry Legg @harrylegg.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Him (in 3 hours time when the drugs wear off): Waitman, I apologise for being stupid. Also him: huh, why wait man and not wait woman?
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