Current Publications
The Displacement, Extinction and Genocide of the Pontic Greeks 1916–1923, ed. by Medardus Brehl and Kristin Platt, Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft 2025, 380 pp. (ISBN: 978-3-95832-198-4)
Recent international research has emphasized that the Armenian genocide must be understood as only one chapter of an overall campaign of the Young-Turkish and Kemalist government against non-Muslim (and later non-Turkish) communities. Besides the Armenians, particularly Greek communities in Asia Minor were most affected by forced migration and atrocities committed against them. This governmental campaign reached its violent climax in the genocide of the Greek communities in the Pontic area at the shores of the Black Sea. Although this topic has become increasingly prominent in Anglo-American historical studies, it continues to be neglected within the European field of research.
This publication raises awareness and promotes international and interdisciplinary research on the genocide of the Pontic Greeks. As the displacement and extinction of the Pontic-Greek community must be contextualized as part of the complex socio-political relations between Muslim/Turkish hegemony and Non-Muslim/Non-Turkish communities, the publication brings together the expert knowledge of international scholars working within the fields of the late Ottoman, Young-Turkish and Kemalist period, as well as Greco-Turkish relations and Greek diaspora.
Authors: Monika Albrecht, Medardus Brehl, Mihran Dabag, Thea Halo, Tessa Hofmann, Antonis Klapsis, Theodosios Kyriakidis, Vasileios Th. Meichanetsidis, Kristin Platt, Miltiadis Sarigiannidis, Robert Shenk, Nikos Sigalas, Zeynep Turkyilmaz.
Platt, Kristin: Die Namen der Katastrophe. Holocaust und Shoah als sprachliche und soziale Zeichen, Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft 2024, 776 pp. (ISBN 978-3-95832-216-5)
Häussler, Matthias / Eckl, Andreas: Lothar von Throtha in Deutsch-Südwestafrika, 1904-1905. Bd. I: Das Tagebuch (328 pages) / Bd. 2: Das Fotoalbum (327 pages), Berlin u.a.: De Gruyter 2024 (ISBN 978-3-11-116290-4)
Lieutenant General Lothar von Trotha – Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Protection Force for German South-West Africa from 1904 to 1905 in the fight against the OvaHerero, Nama, and Orrlam – is rightly considered to be the main party responsible for the first genocide of the twentieth century in colonial Namibia. This critical edition gives the public access to central sources and Lothar von Trotha’s diary and photo album for the first time.
Häussler, Matthias Staatlichkeit und Gewalt im kolonialen Namibia (1883–1915). Akteure und Prozesse, Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft 2024, 228 Seiten (ISBN 978-3-95832-360-5)
Marius Seydel: Ermöglichungsverhältnisse. Die Kooperation von NS-Sondereinheiten im Holocaust am Beispiel des I./SS-Gendarmerie-Bataillons (mot.), Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft 2023, 636 pp.(ISBN: 978-3-95832-336-0)
