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Elisabeth Piller

6 months

Great to see this piece out; part of a forum on U.S. Military Humanitarianism in @ModAmHist ; thanks to last year's @SHAFRConference and fellow forum contributors @juliairwin @AdamSeipp @mewalters101 and (especially) @BrianDrohan - open access 🥳:

A Humanitarian Moment? The U.S. Military in Europe, 1943–1946 | Modern American History | Cambridge...

A Humanitarian Moment? The U.S. Military in Europe, 1943–1946 - Volume 7 Issue 1

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Elisabeth Piller

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6 years

I am from Nuremberg. I am a historian. I have never seen images quite like these.

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6 years

Today is the 80th anniversary of #Kristallnacht . A personal story: My grandfather fought in WWII. He never spoke about it, so we didnt know much about his time in the service, but based on the patches on his uniform, we think he did something in intel.

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Elisabeth Piller

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6 years

A German World War 1 granade was just found (and defused) in a chips factory in Hong Kong. How did it get there? Witha shipment of potatoes from France. Welcome to globalization! (p.s. would make a perfect opening question to globalization lecture)

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Elisabeth Piller

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3 years

Popular characterization of occupied Germany: "The Russians had the farmland, the British had the industry, the French had the wine and the Americans had the scenery" (qtd. from Coleman, IG Farben and ICI, 124) Never heard this before - but there's some truth to it

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Elisabeth Piller

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2 years

One of the coolest things @UniFreiburg is the so-called Samstags-Uni: every Saturday at 11, different Freiburg professors lecture publicly on a common semester theme. Up to a 1000 people come to downtown Freiburg, go to the market and then attend the lecture. How neat is that?

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Elisabeth Piller

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2 years

Happy and honoured that Selling Weimar won the Transatlantic Studies Association/Cambridge University Press book prize for the best book in transatlantic studies ... A really big thank you to @TransAtStudies (and to Steiner and @GHIWashington for all their support along the way)

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Elisabeth Piller

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6 years

@DrinkTheTea1 We, Germans, actually learn about our past, especially the Nazi period and the Holocaust, quite extensively from a young age. Still, these images have a particularly haunting quality. To me they are also so shocking because they are from my hometown.

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

4 years

I'm happy to share that my book "Selling Weimar. German Public Diplomacy and the United States, 1918-1933" is now really and officially out. Thanks to the @GHIWashington it is also available open access; free to download here:

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

1 year

Amazing movie from 1948 on German hunger commissioned by the US Military Government. The movie, which aimed to remind Germans that their post-war hunger was a result of their own war effort, roused strong public opposition. The German audience booed the movie and ...

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

5 months

An incredible resource: Columbia University Libraries have made available their very extensive oral history collection online - just the website is so insane that it's almost impossible to find. Here's the link:

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

2 years

The pub knew we were coming. „the historians“ presumably doing something with dinosaurs, and bones and, uh,time

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

4 years

My grandpa died this evening; he had grown so old (and was well for so long) that I had convinced myself he’d never die; his stories are a big reason I became a historian. This is him in 1919 in rural Bavaria. I feel like my family’s own long 20th century came to an end today

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Elisabeth Piller

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4 years

It’s clearly the most wonderful time of the year at my house: first copies of my book arrived today 🎉🥰🎄🥳 #mybookisoutanditschrismas

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

4 years

I guess the cat is out of the bag now 🥳 I have accepted a tenure track position at the Universität Freiburg @HistoSeminarFR ; my absolute dream job in Transatlantic and North American history. I have to pinch myself all the time to be sure it‘s really happening

Geschichte Uni Freiburg

@GeschichteUniFr

4 years

Wir freuen uns unsere neue Kollegin Elisabeth Piller zum Wintersemester in Freiburg begrüßen zu können. Frau Piller wird eine Stelle als Juniorprofessorin für Nordamerikanische und Transatlantische Geschichte antreten. Hier ihre bisherige home page in Oslo

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

10 months

I first got my LoC reader card in January 2009, the day after the 1st Obama inauguration. The LoC uses that same picture at every reissue. So here I am, forever frozen in time: a very happy and hungover 24 year old

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

1 year

one of my favorite archival finds @TrumanLibrary - the (future) Committee for the Marshall Plan brainstorming what to call itself, including "Anti-Russian", "Anti-War", "Pro-American" and "Pro-Peace" alternatives

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

5 years

Looking for a nice book cover in European/German history? It's 2020 and that means the copyright for Ludwig Hohlwein, one of the century's most prolific poster artists has finally expired. Knock yourself out! #twitterstorians

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

6 years

@blm849 @ivortossell Yes, the onlookers and smiling executioners. Sickening.

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

4 years

Turns out when you get appointed at @UniFreiburg you get a bottle of wine from the university vineyard 😍

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

1 year

Finishing the proofs 😍🎊 this will be out later this year with @ManchesterUP featuring chapters by @MariaInesTato @AnaPPirex @Ced_Cotter @KALowe_PhD @hsirisamot

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

5 months

4 years of American college finally paid off: I won the university’s beer pong tournament

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Elisabeth Piller

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1 year

Happy and honored 👸😍

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

2 years

Three post-doc positions in Robert Gerwarth's ERC project on European civil wars (1912-1949) @ucddublin Each is three years. I have only the best of memories of my time in Dublin.

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

10 months

Currently plowing through five years of Weekly Public Opinion Digests on Civil Affairs in Occupied And Liberated Territory put together by the U.S. War Department - this might take a while ...

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

4 years

OMG, how exciting is this?! this is so kind of you!!

GER/US Edu. History

@CGAEH_Muenster

4 years

#bookofthemonth #February2021 @elisabmpiller Selling Weimar. German Public Diplomacy and the United States, 1918-1933 @GHIWashington

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Elisabeth Piller

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2 years

article-cum-rant on the invisibility of women in World War I humanitarianism. Just out with The International History Review. Huge thanks to the two brilliant reviewers (I'm still in awe!).

Beyond Hoover. Rewriting the History of the Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB) through Female...

The Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB) was among the largest and most prominent humanitarian undertakings of the First World War. From October 1914 to mid-1919, the American-led organization pr...

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

1 year

Wonderful to see our collection on 'Humanitarianism and the Greater War' out after many years of work! A huge thank you to all the amazing contributors including @MariaInesTato @AnaPPirex @Ced_Cotter @hsirisamot @KALowe_PhD 🥳

Manchester University Press

@ManchesterUP

1 year

Out today - 'Humanitarianism and the Greater War, 1914-24' offers fresh perspectives on the history of humanitarianism and its impact on domestic and international politics in the era of the Great War. Find out more: #WWI #LeagueofNations #RedCross

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Elisabeth Piller

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5 years

A prize? A prize for me? Thank you so much Forschungsstelle Weimarer Republik 🥳💁‍♀️🙏

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

1 year

responded to a news reel snippet that showed Hermann Göring asking for 'guns not butter' by shouting "Göring would have never let us starve!" and "We want Hermann!" The movie was subsequently taken out of circulation. The movie (in German) here:

Hunger

Nicht nur in Deutschland sind Lebensmittel nach dem Krieg knapp. Dokumentaraufnahmen aus Paris, London und Neapel illustrieren eindringlich, dass auch in anderen Ländern gehungert wird.

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

1 year

Please share: I am looking for a research assistant (could be an advanced BA student) to copy a few files for me at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library in Austin, TX this summer. I can offer about $ 20/hour (for max. 15 hours of work). Do I know s.o. in Austin? @SHAFRhistorians

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

1 year

❤️ Uni Freiburg

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

4 years

Comes highly recommended. Various members of my family have assured me that "it is less boring than your book"

Steven Seegel 🇺🇦

@steven_seegel

4 years

My 50th episode as host @NewBooksNetwork . Diplo historian Dr. Elisabeth Piller @elisabmpiller , now at Uni-Freiburg, joined me to chat about "Selling Weimar: German Public Diplomacy and the United States, 1918-1933" ( @GHIWashington & Steiner Verlag, 2021).

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

8 months

I have literally no idea how people draft anything without paper 🙆‍♀️

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

9 months

Our graduate training school "empires" is organizing its third conference on "The Empire and I", focusing on biographical/individual approaches to the history of empire. The conference will take place in late Nov in Freiburg; abstracts are due on 29 February. Please share widely!

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

1 year

For a chapter I am writing I am currently revisiting the reports from US exchange students in Nazi Germany that I dug up in 2018 at the Rockefeller Archive Center. Some of them are just incredibly prescient and moving. Howard Trivers, then at Heidelberg, wrote in April 1933:

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

1 year

Glad to see this article out! I wrote about how hard it can be to accept - and ask for - humanitarian aid and the difficult negotiations between national need and national dignity that faced the Weimar Republic in the early 1920s

Despondence, dependence and dignity: on the dilemmas of being an object of international charity in...

The history of international humanitarianism is usually told from the perspective of donors and aid providers. Throughout the twentieth century, large humanitarian organizations such as the Interna...

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

5 years

On popular request (but also because it's exciting!) here is the link to the programme for next week's conference on Humanitarianism and the Greater War, 1912-23 at @UCDHistory Special thanks to @IrishResearch for the generous support.

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

6 years

@literasyme Yes, made me physically sick.

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

5 years

Here’s the (presumably) last living soldier of the Weimar Republic‘s 100 000-man army telling me a story at lunch today, It’s grandpa’s 105th birthday. How was your day? #bornin1914 #stilltalkingaboutthegrandparents

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

7 months

One day I'll write an article about how the memory of occupation in the American South (1865-) shaped US occupations after 1918 and 1943 - it's a constant theme. Both men in charge of occupied Germany (Henry Allen; Lucius Clay) after the world wars were Southerners, f. example

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

4 years

Bundesarchiv Koblenz; usually just an eyesore, in pandemic times also a sight for sore eyes 😅

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

11 months

I first started thinking about this article some time around 2013 ... so I am VERY pleased to say my article on US educators, student exchange and early efforts to solve the 'German problem' is now out in the English Historical Review @enghistrev

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

4 years

My article on Franco-German competition for US affections in the 1920s is out with @ContEuroHistory ; Come for German paranoia and anti-French vitriol, stay for the chic American students in interwar Munich

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4 years

The Transatlantic Dynamics of European Cultural Diplomacy: Germany, France and the Battle for US Affections in the 1920s

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

2 years

Delivered just in time for a reading Saturday 😍 @njtmulder

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

4 years

I don’t think I ll ever get used to giving a talk and then just ending all of it with the push of a button. I just want to end it „properly“, i.e. continuing the conversation at a pub or restaurant 🙆‍♀️

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

5 months

I love train journeys. Currently rolling through stunning Italian countryside while having time to work and drink a cappuccino. Perfect

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

1 year

My grandpa went into Allied captivity in May 1945; my grandma, who had their first child in Nov 1945, thought he was dead. Then in January 1946 a Red Cross Card arrived in the mail. All it said was: "I'm alive, Ludwig" She talked about this moment all her life.

ICRC

@ICRC

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What is a Red Cross Message? -It’s a piece of paper delivered by our staff and volunteers. -It’s a last resort for people to contact their families. -It’s a lifeline for people in prison or separated by conflict. -It’s hope.

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

3 years

Excellent historiographical essay by Robert Gerwarth on the last decade or so of research on the Paris Peace Treaties; just out in the Journal of Modern History

The Sky beyond Versailles: The Paris Peace Treaties in Recent Historiography | The Journal of...

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

5 years

My procrastination is totally paying off - look at the gorgeous conference poster!

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

4 years

The small victories of 2020: I got a spot at the Bundesarchiv for next Friday 🥳

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

9 months

When I first moved to Freiburg I would often share photos of delicious baked goods (spending years without access to German bakeries will do that to you). Today I am having Apfelstreuselkuchen mit Sahne 🙆‍♀️☺️

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

1 year

My new article is now out @ContEuroHistory 🥳 It's about the transatlantic politics and emotions of in/gratitude in the first half of the twentieth century and can be accessed (freely) here: doi:10.1017/S096077732300053X

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

5 years

Thanks to the @GHIWashington and Steiner Verlag for awarding my dissertation the biannual Franz Steiner Prize for an outstanding manuscript in American and/or transatlantic history (+ the beautiful flowers at #dgfa19 ). The book will be out in 2020!

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

1 year

A big thank you to the Botstiber Institute for supporting my work on US aid and Austrian hunger after WWII: "The Hungriest People in Europe – US Food Aid to Austria and Post-War Transatlantic Relations" I am thrilled!

Botstiber BIAAS

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Our sincerest congratulations to the 18 grantees who have received BIAAS funding this year for their research, projects and events! Find out more about their exciting work, here:

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

8 months

The first articles of our special issue on blockade in the era of the world wars are out. Real pleasure to co-edit with Alan Kramer, Jonas Scherner and @KruizingaSamuel . Here: Jonas Scherner on blockade, Germany and strategic raw materials in both world wars @IntHistReview 👇

The International History Review Journal

@IntHistReview

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Jonas Scherner ( @NTNUnorway ) discusses the WWI blockade of Germany and what/how Nazi war planners learned for WWII. Check out this #OpenAccess article below: 🔗

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Elisabeth Piller

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6 years

alright, guys, and I realise I misspelt grenade but my phone was on German spell check and really wanted me to write Granada ...

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

5 years

Recent conversation: Friend (with MBA): “I run a paperless office. Seriously, just tell me one person who still writes anything by hand?!“ Me: 🙆‍♀️ *current state of my desk* 👇

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Elisabeth Piller

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3 years

Oh, man. In 1947, following an extraordinarily cold winter, a 12 year old German girl was asked to write a school essay on "the most beautiful day of my life". She wrote: “February 17, 1947, when my brother died and I inherited his overcoat, his shoes, and his woolen jacket.”

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

1 year

Die Plakatwerbung wird auch immer unangenehmer 😅

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

5 years

Psyched to announce that @SHAFRDH has accepted my article! It's about how the rise of U.S. mass tourism transformed German (and European) foreign policy from the 1890s to the 1930s; stay tuned for fun cartoons and beautiful 1920s tourist ads

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

3 years

75th Anniversary of the Marshall Plan next year. Anyone doing anything to bring together new scholarship/reflect on it? So much fantastic stuff written on it but historiography as a whole feels dated, weirdly neglected @SHAFRhistorians @NDH_Network

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

1 year

@UniFreiburg did a glam photo shoot (+ fab student-led interview) to spotlight female research; my profile piece was released today, which means that I can share this pic of me with an original (!) Marshall Plan milk powder package (thx @CarlSchurzHaus )🏔️ nerdiness unlocked!

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

4 years

An article I need to finish, a nusshörnchen, and a 7-hour train ride to Berlin (to go to the archives no less). This feels luxuriously 2019 🤩

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Elisabeth Piller

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5 years

My article “Managing Imponderables. The Rise of U.S. Tourism and the Transformation of German Diplomacy, 1890–1933” is out @SHAFRDH . It posits that the U.S. rise as an unorthodox great power re-shaped the European diplomatic practice in early 20th c. /1

Managing Imponderables: The Rise of U.S. Tourism and the Transformation of German Diplomacy,...

Today, governments readily recognize international tourism as a salient economic and political factor. They routinely restrict or facilitate travel in acco

academic.oup.com

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

4 years

One of the most exciting things about moving back to Germany is that there‘s a Bäckerei next door. My plan is to eat only carbs for the foreseeable future

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Elisabeth Piller

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3 years

I wrote a thing for the Washington Post @madebyhistory

Perspective | Joe Biden is sending an academic to Germany. Here’s why it might pay off.

American ambassadors from the academic world have had unique success in Germany.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

7 months

In late 1944 American Relief for Holland ran one of the strongest fundraising campaigns of the entire war, merging religious concerns with the appeal of the suffering child. This was their main campaign poster:

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Elisabeth Piller

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3 months

Please find our (Alan Kramer, Jonas Scherner, @KruizingaSamuel and my) piece on blockade in the era of the world wars @IntHistReview here👇We map the state of the field and develop a research framework for approaching the subject. It is open access

Introduction: The Blockade in the Era of the World Wars

How did blockades shape the course, outcome and aftermath of the world wars? In both wars, belligerents sought to blockade their enemies, cutting them off from vital resources such as food, oil, in...

www.tandfonline.com

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

5 years

Diplomatic historienne at work

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

5 years

@amandadeibert My grandpa Ludwig (German soldier) went missing in alps in April 1945. My grandma had their 1. child in Nov. and despite being very catholic she refused to have it baptized w/o him present. All said he was dead. In Feb 1946 a Red Cross Card arrived, 3 words: “I’m alive, Ludwig”

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Elisabeth Piller

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6 years

@XwingEnthusiest Me, too. The destroyed shopfronts were one block from my high school. I never knew.

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

6 years

Conference on "Humanitarianism and the 'Greater War', 1912-23", at UCD Centre for War Studies in Dublin next September! How can study of humanitarianism re-shape our understanding of global WWI and its aftermath, & vice versa? Please help spread the word

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Elisabeth Piller

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1 year

I just discovered that the digital archives of the Italian newspaper La Stampa is freely available and fully searchable (1867 to 2005) - this is gonna be an exciting Saturday evening! ☺️👏

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

4 years

Very quiet New Year’s Eve in Freiburg yesterday meant that the church bells ringing for 5 minutes as we entered 2021 resonated all through the town. for the first time I got a sense of the awe that people must have felt centuries ago

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

3 years

New slots available in Bundesarchiv Berlin 🎉🎉🎉

Moritz Faist

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3 years

Servicetweet für die #twitterstorians : das #Bundesarchiv Berlin-Lichterfelde hat gerade massig Termine für den bislang komplett ausgebuchten Lesesaal von Herbst 2021 bis weit in den Sommer 2022 freigeschaltet 🤗😎✌🏻 Link: #phdlife @BundesarchivD

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1 year

might be interesting @kmocon ; I read in your dissertation that you never got a chance to watch it; the episode is described i.a. in Frank Mehring's text on the Marshall Plan films:

Die Filme des Marshall-Plans - Zeughauskino | Deutsches Historisches Museum

Die Filme des Marshall-Plans - Das Zeughauskino des Deutschen Historischen Museums in Berlin präsentiert Filmreihen der besonderen Art.

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1 year

Lots of diplomatic historians warming up for @SHAFRConference tomorrow; fascinating workshop at Georgetown on The Days After: US Post-Conflict Diplomacy since 1783 @secolbourn

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4 years

The Bundesarchiv Koblenz reopens on March 15 and I (four months ago) booked a visit for March 15/16/17 🥳

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4 years

C‘est moi 😊come join me next Friday for a lunch session on Weimar Germany and the USA

German Society of PA

@GermanSocietyPA

4 years

How exactly did German-American relations improve so rapidly in the decade after WWI? Learn the answer to this question and much more on March 5 at 12:30pm, when Dr. Elisabeth Piller discusses her new book. Register at the following link:

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6 months

Our special issue on blockade in the era of the world wars is coming together. Here‘s another piece: Heather Jones @WW1POWs on the Mediterranean blockade and wartime radicalization in World War I

A Forgotten Front? The Mediterranean Blockade in the First World War

This article examines the First World War Allied blockade of the Mediterranean, a maritime blockade initiated by Britain and France, later assisted from 1915 by Italy and other Allied powers. It ar...

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@elisabmpiller

1 year

Bliss

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Elisabeth Piller

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5 years

@amandadeibert They have been married for 80 years (come September). Most wonderful people at 104 and 97 years old. They still have the telegram.

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4 months

An endless to do list but also 7 hours to get stuff done on the train journey to Berlin. I have a small pile of baked goods and get to read a timely bachelor’s thesis on Freiburg student protests against Vietnam. Not a terrible Sunday 😙

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3 years

Having had to postpone the conference twice we'll finally be talking all things 'blockade' in the era of the two worlds war this June @NTNUHumanities

The Blockade in the Era of the Two World Wars

In both world wars, blockades constituted a key means of warfare, which impacted profoundly on the living conditions of European and non-European populations, on world trade, on major strategic...

www.fateofnations.no

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Elisabeth Piller

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2 years

Wintersemester @UniFreiburg 😍

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10 months

The archivist at the Library of Congress' Manuscript Division just greeted me with "Oh, you have been coming here for a looong time" - I feel incredible VIP! 🙌

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

5 months

Wanted to let you all know that Maximilian Klose's much anticipated book on CARE and post-1945 Germany is now out and, thanks to @GHIWashington , is available open access:

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

1 year

Letters asking for aid are among the most interesting sources in my research; sadly they were often culled from collections as they seemed irrelevant to „high politics“; here’s an Italian girl asking Bess Truman to help her look as fine as the girls who receive pretty US clothes

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

6 years

Ludwig, born in September 1914, and his granddaughter Elisabeth, student of the First World War, enjoying a Christmas beer together. A century is short in so many ways

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

4 years

Why were the 1920/30s so defining a moment for cultural diplomacy, giving rise to major orgs like @BritishCouncil or @DAAD_Germany ? Why did a Europe in crisis decide, of all things, to embrace cultural diplomacy? @BenGMartinHist & me try to provide some answers @ContEuroHistory 👇

Benjamin G. Martin

@BenGMartinHist

4 years

"Europe's interwar period, we argue, was a laboratory for the testing of new ‘cultural’ tools in international politics." @elisabmpiller 's and my introductory essay to our special issue of @ContEuroHistory is now online!

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

1 year

I just started getting into archival records on World War II military logistics and I have yet to decide whether these are the most boring (strong contenders here!) or the most interesting records I have ever seen 🙆‍♀️

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

4 years

Sitting on the balcony (28 degrees) listening to my neighbor blasting techno music, and finally seeing a paper I ve been thinking about for years take shape. I hope everyone‘s Friday is that awesome 🙌

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

3 years

First time f2f in Freiburg 😍

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

1 year

A most terrible thing has happened

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

1 year

At a workshop on teaching/researching US and the world in Europe and it’s at the venue we all deserve

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

2 years

Want to do a PhD on empire in beautiful Freiburg? Graduate School 'Empires' is looking for four new PhDs (3 years) ... This include US empire e.g. US occupations, military/economic/cultural presence in Europe and much more @SHAFRhistorians @ExeterCIGH Please share!

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

3 years

Just received the fastest (6 weeks) AND most helpful peer reviews of my life. Truly best practice

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

1 year

Italian poster (early 1948) showing what percentage of Italian bread came from US wheat donations

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

5 years

Boyfriend is recording tomorrow’s lecture. Lost sound twice; then file wouldn’t save; then he erased everything by accident. It’s been 3 hours and he is 3 minutes in. It’s gonna be a long day.

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Elisabeth Piller

@elisabmpiller

6 years

@MikeInPetworth @yfreemark That’s very true; on virtually all surviving American rail lines (and also quite a few European ones) travel time is now the same it was one hundred years ago. E.g. it took 10 hours to go from Munich to Milan in 1912. and today? the same. It’s time for an overhaul

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