Most cited papers in German History and Society

German History and Society

What are the most cited papers in German History and Society?

The most cited paper in German History and Society is "The Dynamics of Informational Cascades: The Monday Demonstrations in Leipzig, East Germany, 1989–91" (Susanne Lohmann, 1994), with 1,058 citations. Next come "The Politics of Regret: On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility" (789) and "Exit, Voice, and the Fate of the German Democratic Republic: An Essay in Conceptual History" (469).

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Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 48 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#	Paper
1	The Dynamics of Informational Cascades: The Monday Demonstrations in Leipzig, East Germany, 1989–91 Susanne Lohmann · World Politics	Oct 1994	1,058
2	The Politics of Regret: On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility Jeffrey K. Olick	2007	789
3	Exit, Voice, and the Fate of the German Democratic Republic: An Essay in Conceptual History Albert O.HG Hirschman · World Politics	1993	469
4	The past as propaganda: totalitarian archaeology in Nazi Germany Bettina Arnold · Antiquity	Sep 1990	318
5	The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government Aaron Lee Bachhofer · Archives of Sexual Behavior	Apr 2005	300
6	Forever in the shadow of Hitler? Original documents of the Historikerstreit, the controversy concerning the singularity of the Holocaust Conan Fischer · International Affairs	1994	249
7	War Stories: The Search for a Usable Past in the Federal Republic of Germany Robert G. Moeller · The American Historical Review	Oct 1996	241
8	Supplicants and Citizens: Public Letter-Writing in Soviet Russia in the 1930s Sheila Fitzpatrick · Slavic Review	1996	192
9	Red Famine. Stalin’s War on Ukraine Taras Kuzio · Europe Asia Studies	14 Sep 2018	191
10	The past is another country: myth and memory in post-war Europe Tony R. Judt · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter	29 Aug 2002	183
11	American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World. Russell Thornton, David E. Stannard · Journal of American History	Mar 1994	159
12	The Americanization of the holocaust Hilene Flanzbaum · Journal of Genocide Research Open access	Mar 1999	152
13	The Holocaust in American Life Severin A. Hochberg, Peter Novick, Hilene Flanzbaum · Journal of American History	Dec 2000	148
14	The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust Donald L. Niewyk · Central European History	14 May 2007	148
15	Reichsrundschreiben 1931: Pre-Nuremberg German Regulations Concerning New Therapy and Human Experimentation H.-M. Sass · The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine	May 1983	142
16	Strength through Joy: Consumerism and Mass Tourism in the Third Reich Lynne M. Taylor · Annals of Tourism Research	Jul 2005	134
17	Indelible shadows film and the Holocaust Annette Insdorf	2003	122
18	The Search For The Self: Selected Writings Of Heinz Kohut, 1950-1978. Homer C. Curtis · Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association	Feb 1983	120
19	Love In The Time Of Communism: Intimacy and Sexuality in the GDR Josie McLellan	2011	120
20	Music and German National Identity George James Grinnell · History Reviews of New Books	2003	117
21	Working, Struggling, Becoming: Stalin‐Era Autobiographical Texts Jochen Hellbeck · The Russian Review	Jul 2001	113
22	Grand national narratives and the project of truth commissions: a comparative analysis Molly Andrews · Media Culture & Society Open access	2003	111
23	The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963-1965: Genocide, History, and the Limits of the Law MICHAEL D. BIDDISS · The English Historical Review	Dec 2006	100
24	THE BELEAGUERED ISLE. A STUDY OF ELIZABETHAN AND EARLY JACOBEAN ANTI-CATHOLICISM Carol Z. Wiener · Past & Present	1971	99
25	:Hitler's Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany Donald M. McKale · The American Historical Review	Jun 2005	98
26	Das Ende einer Organisationsgesellschaft Detlef Pollack · Zeitschrift für Soziologie	Aug 1990	97
27	National Socialist Extermination Policies: Contemporary German Perspectives and Controversies Tom Lawson · Journal of Jewish Studies	Apr 2001	96
28	Censorship as a Vocation: The Institutions, Practices, and Cultural Logic of Media Control in the German Democratic Republic Dominic C. Boyer · Comparative Studies in Society and History	Jul 2003	96
29	The People's State: East German Society from Hitler to Honecker David T. D. Childs · The English Historical Review	28 Aug 2006	95
30	Second-Generation Holocaust Literature: Legacies of Survival and Perpetration Erin Heather McGlothlin	2006	94
31	Forced Laborers in Nazi Germany: Categories, Numbers, and Survivors Mark Spoerer, Jochen Fleischhacker · The Journal of Interdisciplinary History	Oct 2002	94
32	The Hour of the Woman: Memories of Germany's “Crisis Years” and West German National Identity Elizabeth Heineman · The American Historical Review	Apr 1996	92
33	On Sommer and Sommer. Howard L. Garber · American Psychologist	Nov 1984	91
34	Cinema and experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno Malte Hagener · NECSUS Open access	2012	90
35	In the House of the Hangman: The Agonies of German Defeat, 1943-1949 Omer Bartov · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews	Jul 2006	88
36	The Guilt of Nations? Jeffrey K. Olick · Ethics & International Affairs	Sep 2003	88
37	Collective Guilt, National Identity, and Political Processes in Contemporary Germany Lars Rensmann · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter	6 Sep 2004	88
38	The Nazi Germany Sourcebook: An Anthology of Texts Amy R. Sims, Robert Stakelberg, Sally A. Winkle · The History Teacher Open access	May 2005	86
39	No Place Like Home: Locations of Heimat in German Cinema Johannes von Moltke · Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)	6 Sep 2005	86
40	Geschichtsbewusstsein und historische Verantwortung in der deutschen Humangenetik Matthis C. Krischel, Heiner Fangerau, Felicitas Söhner · Medizinische Genetik Open access	Jun 2021	85
41	Jugendliche in Deutschland als Opfer und Täter von Gewalt: Erster Forschungsbericht zum gemeinsamen Forschungsprojekt des Bundesministeriums des Innern und des KFN Dirk Baier, Christian Pfeiffer, Julia Simonson et al. Open access	2009	85
42	Das Gesetz, das nicht aufhebbar ist. Vom Umgang mit den Opfern der NS-Zwangssterilisation in der Bundesrepublik Svea Luise Herrmann, Kathrin Braun · KJ / Kritische Justiz Open access	2010	85
43	Double-edged rituals and the symbolic resources of collective action: Political commemorations and the mobilization of protest in 1989 Steven J. Pfaff, Guobin Yang · Theory and Society	Aug 2001	85
44	Erinnerungsorte der DDR B. Niven · German History	17 Sep 2010	81
45	Parting the Curtain: Propaganda, Culture, and the Cold War, 1945-1961. Emily S. Rosenberg, Walter L. Hixson, Richard H. Pells · Journal of American History	Mar 1998	81
46	The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB Donald P. Steury · History Reviews of New Books	2000	81
47	Geschichte der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft im Nationalsozialismus Marcel Weber · Der Nervenarzt	Nov 2002	81
48	Entangled Memories: Versions of the Past in Germany and Japan, 1945—2001 Sebastian Conrad · Journal of Contemporary History	2003	78
49	The past in the present: Historical memory and German national security policy Thomas U. Berger · German Politics	Apr 1997	75
50	The Miracle Years: A Cultural History of West Germany, 1949–1968 Marion F. Deshmukh · History Reviews of New Books	2001	74

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