Patrick Bernhard

Lecturer in European History

Research Interests

My research focuses on twentieth-century western Europe. I analyse cultural, social and political transformations, and the crossovers and exchanges that took place between European and extra-European societies. I seek to capture transnational learning processes not only between different political systems and regimes, but also in how ordinary people experienced and made sense of these entanglements. My work covers Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy; Italian activity in Africa during the Second World War; international police cooperation and antisemitic persecution in Spain; the history of food and the internationalization of consumption patterns; and the 1960s. I am currently writing a study of population management within the Axis alliance.

Select Publications

• Den Kalten Krieg denken. Beiträge zur sozialen Ideengeschichte seit 1945 (Ed. with Holger Nehring; Essen: Klartext Publishing House 2013, in print).
• Zivildienst zwischen Reform und Revolte: Eine bundesdeutsche Institution im gesellschaftlichen Wandel, 1961-1982 (Munich: Oldenbourg, 2005), pp. 462.
• Die Schweiz und Deutschland, 1945-1961 (Subed. with Petra Weber; Munich: Oldenbourg, 2004).

Articles

• ‘Behind the Battle Lines: Italian Atrocities and the Persecution of Arabs, Berbers, and Jews in North Africa during World War II,’ Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 26,3 (2012), pp. 425-446.
• ‘Dolce Vita, Made in Italy und Globalisierung,’ in Oliver Janz and Roberto Sala, eds, Dolce Vita? Das Bild der italienischen Migranten in Deutschland (Frankfurt/New York: Campus, 2011), pp. 62-81.
• ‘Konzertierte Gegnerbekämpfung im Achsenbündnis: Die Polizei im Dritten Reich und im faschistischen Italien 1933 bis 1943,’ Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 59 (2011), pp. 229-262.
•  (with Anne Rohstock) ‘Writing about the ‘revolution’. Nuovi studi internazionali sul movimento del ‘68,’ Ricerche di Storia Politica, 11 (2008), pp. 177-192.
• ‘Pazifismus per Gesetz? Krieg und Frieden in der westdeutschen Verfassungsdiskussion, 1945-1949,’ Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift, 66 (2007), pp. 45-70.

Teaching and Supervision

I currently deliver Senior Freshman (level 2) modules in the History of Europe since 1870 and Sophister modules (levels 3 and 4) on ‘Advertising and Consumerism: Refiguring European Society in the Twentieth Century’ and ‘World War 2 France and the Historians’.

Dr. Bernhard on the TCD Research Support System

Contact Details

Room 3114
Department of History
Trinity College
Dublin 2.

Telephone: +353 1 896 1011
Fax: +353 1 896 3995
Email: bernharp@tcd.ie