Konrad H. Jarausch is the Lurcy Professor for European Civilization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1983 and former director of the Zentrum für Zeithistori...view moreKonrad H. Jarausch is the Lurcy Professor for European Civilization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1983 and former director of the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam. The focus of his work has been German and European history. His most recent books include: The Burden of German History: A Transatlantic Life (2023); Embattled Europe: A Progressive Alternative (2021); Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the Twentieth Century (2018); Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century (2015), and Reluctant Accomplice: A Wehrmacht Soldier’s Letters from the Eastern Front (2011).view less