Dr. Katrin Paehler
& by appointment via zoom at https://illinoisstate.zoom.us/j/91237090712
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Research
Biography
Dr. Paehler received her MA from the Philipps Universität Marburg, Germany in 1994 and her Ph.D. from American University in Washington, DC in 2004. She has taught at Illinois State University since August 2004 and publishes on Modern German and European history.
Current Courses
400.002Independent Study
237.001Modern Germany 1848 To The Present
334.001Nazi Germany
434.001Nazi Germany
200.002Doing History: An Introduction
102.001Modern Western Civilization
102.002Modern Western Civilization
Teaching Interests & Areas
Modern European History;
Modern Germany History;
20th Century (Eastern) Europe;
Nazi Germany;
Holocaust;
Genocide Studies;
Film and History;
History and Memory
Research Interests & Areas
Modern Germany;
Nazi Germany & the Holocaust;
Intelligence History;
History and Memory;
Film and History
Ph D Modern European History
MA German History
Outstanding College Researcher
Book, Authored
The Third Reich's Intelligence Services: The Career of Walter Schellenberg. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Book, Chapter
"Ideologie und Illusion. Das Amt VI des Reichssicherheitshauptamtes," in Das Reichssicherheitshauptamt. NS-Terror-Zentrale im Zweiten Weltkrieg, ed. Michael Wildt. Topographie des Terrors. Notizen, eds. Andreas Nachama, Band 13. Leipzig: Hentrich & Hentrich, 2019, 97-117.
"Gender and Espionage: Hildegard Beetz, the Ciano Affairs, and Female Agency," in Gender and the Second World War: Lessons of War, eds. Corinna Peniston-Bird and Emma Vickers. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 73-87
(with Peter Hayes), "Verhaftungen, Internierungen, Repatriierungen" and "Verhöre in der 'Mülltonne'," in Eckart Conze, Norbert Frei, Peter Hayes, and Moshe Zimmermann, Das Amt und die Vergangenheit: Deutsche Diplomaten im Dritten Reich und in der Bundesrepublik. Munich: Karl Blessing Verlag, 2010, 321-342.
"The wrong -grad, the wrong victims: Investigating the (West-) German Historiographical Discourse on the Siege of Leningrad," in Re-calling the Past—(Re-)Constructing the Past. Collective and Individual Memory of World War II in Russia and Germany, eds. Withold Bonner and Arja Rosenholm, 31-41. Helsinki: Aleksanteri Institute, 2008.
"Foreign Intelligence in a New Paradigm: Amt VI of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA)," in Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust. Collected Essays from the Colloquium at the City University of New York Graduate Center, ed. David Bankier, 273-299. New York and Jerusalem: Enigma Books and Yad Vashem, 2006.
Book, Edited
with David M. Messenger, eds. A Nazi Past. Recasting German Identity in Postwar Europe. Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 2015.
Creative Works/Broadcast Media
New Books Network with Ryan Stackhouse. Katrin Paehler, The Third Reich's Intelligence Service. The Career of Walter Schellenberg. Spring 2018. http://newbooksnetwork.com/katrin-paehler-the-third-reichs-intelligence-service-the-career-of-walter-shellenberg-cambridge-university-press-2017/
The Third Reich History Podcast with Ryan Stackhouse. Spies, Lies, and Nazis—Paehler on the Fine Art of Source Critique. Spring 2018. https://soundcloud.com/user-272162829-304060047/spies-lies-and-nazis-paehler-on-the-fine-art-of-source-critiquere.
Journal Article
"Breaking the Post-War Goose-Step: Three Films by Michael Verhoeven," Shofar. In Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 28/4 (Summer 2010): 41-56
"Creating an Alternative Foreign Office: A Reassessment of Office VI of the Reich Main Security Office," Journal of Intelligence History 8 (Winter 2008/2009): 27-42.
Presentations
"The District Six Museum in Cape Town, South Africa: A Three-Dimensional Yizkor Book?" Memory Studies Association, African Chapter; Pretoria, ZA; October 2019
"The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly: 9 November in German History." Lecture, Academy of Seniors, Illinois State University, October 2016.
"The Space Between: Hildegard Beetz, Espionage, and Gender, 1944-1949," Paper, SWWRG-NA, Oxford, MI, September 2018.
"Selling Fascism Abroad: 'The American Illustrated News: The Bridge Across the Atlantic,'" Paper, Symposium on Teaching History and the Social Science, Normal, January 2017.
"The District Six Museum in Cape Town, South Africa: A Three Dimensional Yizkor-Book?" Paper at "Why Remember? Memory and Forgetting in Times of War and Its Aftermath" Sarajevo, June 2017.
"The 'Era of the Witness' Ends—Holocaust Education in the 21st Century." Lecture, Symposium, Teaching the 20th Century in the 21st Century, Illinois State University, January 2016.
"The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly: 9 November in German History." Lecture, Academy of Seniors, Illinois State University, October 2016.
Roundtable "Holocaust Pedagogy," Lessons & Legacies, Claremont, November 2016.