Robert Gellately is the Earl Ray Beck Professor of History at Florida State University and recently was the Bertelsmann Visiting Professor of Twentieth Century Jewish Politics and History at Oxford University. He is the author of The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy, 1933-1945 and Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany. He was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and lives in Tallahassee, Florida.

Blog Entries by Robert Gellately

Remembering the Nazi-Soviet Pact After Seventy Years

6 Comments | Posted August 24, 2009 | 11:50 AM (EST)


The first annual European-wide commemoration of the "the victims of
Stalinism and Nazism" took place on August 23. The resolution to
hold this event was passed recently by the Parliamentary Assembly of
the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a
fifty-six-nation body, which includes...

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Is Another Hitler Possible?

Posted April 20, 2009 | 12:57 PM (EST)


Adolf Hitler was born 120 years ago on April 20, 1889. Is another Hitler possible? I was recently asked that question in connection with my research into the social catastrophe that swept Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. I started to think about Hitler's improbable rise from...

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