When it comes to German efforts to confront the Nazi past, conventional approaches tend to focus on solemn statements and well-meant monuments.

Never Again: Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust (Belknap/Harvard, 2023) looks instead at the very concrete ways in which postwar Germans embraced the lessons of the Third Reich and the Holocaust—above all in response to other genocides that took place elsewhere after 1945 in places like Cambodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda. This innovative approach makes the lessons, limits, and liabilities of politics driven by memories of a troubled history harrowingly clear.

Andrew I. Port is professor of history at Wayne State University in Detroit. He is the author of Never Again: Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust, Conflict and Stability in the German Democratic Republic, and Becoming East German: Structures and Sensibilities after Hitler. Port received degrees in history from Yale and Harvard, and is the recipient of the DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies. He is also the former editor-in-chief of the flagship journal Central European History.

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