Christian Goeschel, a recent appointment to the School of History, recently had his monograph Suicide in Nazi Germany (Oxford University Press, 2009) published in German by the prestigious Suhrkamp Verlag. His book is about the suicides of ordinary people, Jews and Nazis in Germany between 1918 until 1945, from the end of the first world war until the end of the second world war. It constitutes a new social and cultural history, one firmly grounded within social theories, while bringing back the individual into history, and adds a new perspective to the Third Reich as a whole.

Leading German newspapers (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Welt) and other media have praised his book in a number of recent articles and broadcasts:

http://science.orf.at/stories/1692980/

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/augsteins-auslese-selbstmord-im-dritte...

http://www.welt.de/kultur/history/article13786160/Letzter-Ausweg-im-Drit...