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Fathom | Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left 1967-81

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Jeffrey Herf is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Maryland. His books include Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World (Yale University Press, 2009), The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust (Harvard University Press, 2006), Divided Memory: the Nazi Past and the Two Germanys (Harvard University Press, 1997), and Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture, and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich (Cambridge University Press, 1984).

In this video, first published in Fathom, Herf discusses themes from his critically-acclaimed book Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left 1967-81 (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and the 1967 Six-Day War’s impact on the Global Left.

For a more in-depth discussion about his book read Alan Johnson’s interview with Herf here.